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Fix your Mislabeled Song Info. Clean Up Your Dirty Music This is the first and most important step in transforming your music collection.

Clean intelligently fixes all of your mislabeled song information, like "Track 01" and "Unknown Artist". Using Clean first will also ensure that TuneUp's other products can really work their magic. TuneUp should automatically open when you launch iTunes or Windows Media Player. If you don't see it docked right alongside your player, double-click the record icon in your Applications Folder (if you're on a Mac) or from your Start Menu (if you're on a PC). Once TuneUp is open, click the Clean spray bottle to begin cleaning. The first time that you open TuneUp, it will need to process your music library. Select the tracks that you want TuneUp to clean by sending them into the Clean tab. iTunes Users: Select your mislabeled tracks from iTunes and drag them into TuneUp. Windows Media Player Users: Select mislabeled tracks from Windows Media Player, right-click and select ‘Send To TuneUp’.

How to Remove Broken or Dead Tracks from iTunes « Paul Mayne. Note: Read the Updates at the bottom.

My iTunes XML database recently got corrupted and it seemed I had lost all my many hours worth of song ratings. Luckily I was able to re-construct the database through an few month old backup and my iPod. In doing so, my entire iTunes library was duplicated with broken links. Since iTunes does not currently allow you to sort by the broken (‘!’ Icon), it’s a laborious, manual process to remove all these track listings. That was until I found this ingenious process somewhere on the Apple forums: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I have these three playlists in their own folder. How to Delete a file from a playlist: Windows: SHIFT + DEL Mac: OPTION + DEL A reader named Art informed me of these reacent changes in deleting tracks in Windows: Apple apparently added a new twist in the latest iTunes for Windows – the Delete option is disabled in a Smart Playlist.

UPDATE October 2008: How to Easily Remove Duplicate Tracks on iTunes [Windows] I’m a Windows guy, so some of your options will certainly differ if you’re one of those Apple types.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Remove Duplicates from iTunes – Before we start We’ve talked about iTunes before. A lot! Relating to this particular subject, David Pierce explained how to use TidySongs to manage iTunes, and more broadly, Jackson produced a great eBook to help with all your iTunes needs. How did this happen? If only I knew. Never mind. Things to check There are two things you want to make sure of before proceeding to remove duplicates from iTunes, and one general word of warning. First, the warning. If you are allowing iTunes to manage your files, you can just copy the entire iTunes folder (and all the subfolders) somewhere else. There are two different ways that you can end up with duplicate tracks listed in iTunes. The other thing to watch for is that the tracks are not near-duplicates.

Search and Eliminate Getting help with the heavy lifting. How To Organize Your iTunes Collection With TidySongs. Do you download music from multiple sources?

How about sources you don’t pay for? Even if all you’re doing is ripping CD’s onto your hard drive, odds are good you’ve got more than a few songs labeled something like “Track 06.mp3″ or “This song’s totally sweet.mp3″. How in the world are you supposed to remember what song that really is? And how are you supposed to figure out when you’ve got duplicate songs taking up space on your computer? The answer to both those questions is one word (well, really two, but one in a Web 2.0 kind of way) ““ TidySongs.

TidySongs is a brand-new Adobe AIR app, for Windows and Mac OS X, that hooks into your iTunes and goes bananas all over your music library, helping you to finally organize your iTunes collection. Before I go any further, a disclaimer: TidySongs isn’t free. Once you’ve installed the app (it’s small, and requires Adobe AIR ““ which it will automatically install if you don’t have it already), open up iTunes and TidySongs.