Is Your iTunes Library Out of Control? Here’s Something That Might Help

June 12, 2014 Alan Cross 3 Comments

As of this morning, I have 58,997 items in my iTunes library. That includes all kinds of crap: duplicates, untagged tracks, missing artwork. It drives me nuts.

I use a program called TuneUp that helps a little, but I haven’t been impressed with its latest iterations. Maybe Tune Sweeper is worth a shot.

There’s a free trial download available for PCs, too. If you like what you see, you can buy the full package at a 40% discount ($14,99 vs. $24.99 USD) by using the promo code TS40PERCENT at checkout.

All the details here.

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3 thoughts on “Is Your iTunes Library Out of Control? Here’s Something That Might Help”

Scott

June 12, 2014 at 11:07 pm
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What percentage of that 58k tracks has a playcount of one or more? I have an iTunes smart playlist of unplayed tracks – the number of tunes I haven’t listened to is embarassing at times.
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Blaine

June 13, 2014 at 12:18 am
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Exactly “Scott”, it is embarrassing. But what about the “skipping over” ones, no count for that. I had a conversation with Alan about the best program for handling digital music libraries… iTunes wins, but my count would far surpass 58,000. Only i can’t yet justify, 40 hours of conversion… to MP3 from WMA.
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Afratunes

January 15, 2015 at 4:14 am
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I have large library. Cleaned up artwork, dups, and unidentified in an hour. Saved me hours of time.I should have had at least 10 times as many duplicates as were found, but I am very pleased with the retrieval of artwork.
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