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Even better, the act of cleaning the metadata made it possible for BeaTunes and iTunes to find lots more album artwork than was possible before I got sorted out. I was surprised to find just how many little things were off, as well as how many songs I forgot I had because they were poorly filed. And while it did take me maybe an hour or two total effort to select and approve the library analysis suggestions, the time was well worth it, especially since it's still cold and dark around these parts. The fingerprinting does take a while, but you can leave that unattended. I've used BeaTunes on my library of ~40k songs, both to find missing meta data using fingerprints and to scrub and standardize tags, and was able to finally get a handle on 9+ years worth of shoddy data. The only tiny issue here is that similar album names by different artists - I have lots of 'The Ultimate Collection' - are often grouped, but you can do a 'ignore and don't show this again' for these types of things. Let it suggest, choose the correct suggestions, & Bob's your uncle. BeaTunes has a library inspector feature that will find these differences, as well as a host of others, and present you with a list of what it suspects is wrong along with a simple click-to-fix interface. Let's say you have variations in your artist names, like: The Pogues and Pogues, or ACDC and AC/DC. You can also use BeaTunes to analyze your library's tags and look for and repair a whole range of tag discrepancies.

Even if your current tags aren't all that bad off, you can use this feature to add missing data, like release year and genre.

Yes, it's just that simple, and pretty fast too.

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If it finds a matching fingerprint, BeaTunes can use the associated track data to update your track's tags. The way BeaTunes works is that it analyzes the audio of selected tracks and creates a fingerprint which it then compares to a database run by.

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BeaTunes works on both Mac and Windows machines, all you need is a copy of iTunes with a library containing the (non-DRM'd) tracks you want to clean up. I've tried a number of tools to do this, but the best I've found so far is BeaTunes. Whatever the reason, however bad the tags, there is a pretty straightforward way to sort them out, and that's to let your computer fix them for you. Maybe it's because you ripped the songs from a CD before it was in cddb or one of the other directories, maybe there was no cddb back when you took your first steps into digital audio, maybe your ripper didn't do a good tagging job - remember MusicMatch Jukebox? Everyone with a digital music collection of any size has this problem: their music tags are far from perfect.