What You Need to Clean Up Your iTunes Music Library

Oh, where there is a computer, there is a iTunes music library. Maybe you think it is not true, but it is. Most of iTunes music library are in a mess. For example, artwork not showing, unknown albums, duplicates music and missing artist names, etc. It is really time-consuming if you sort out this mess iTunes music library one by one, especially if you have lots of music. Luckily you, here we would like to share 4 tips for you to get your iTunes music library organize.

Tip 1: Deleting Duplicates or Old Songs

It is a good habit for you to clean up iTunes duplicates songs and some of old music you won’t listen to any longer. Well, no afraid of delete any songs you don’t need as you can re-download it even if one day you need it. In this way, you can save some space on iPhone, iPad, iPod or other device. In the clean up process, you may find some classics music which you haven’t know you had and you feel like to listening to again. This is really awesome experience.

Tip 2: Add Missing Artwork

It is really boring if many music without artwork in your library. Adding it is easy to do so but gives another dimension to your iTunes music library. First get the album cover from the Google Image search, then drag it onto the homologous missing artwork. It is able to resize no matter for what size. If you have difficult in finding them, have a try artwork tab. You just need to right click on the music, then click “get info”, at last adjust the detail from artwork tab. All in all, it is really worth for you to add artwork.

Tip 3：Fix Song Information

The most tedious bit is to fix some miss song information such as title, album, genre, artist, etc. However, it is incredibly handy if you are searching for something you prefer to listen to. It is a trick for you that just make the same song title if you are no sure of the album. At least it sounds like what you need it to be. This is the same for genre, I think you will never care about if it is wrong. Well, this is because you are the one listen to it often.

Tip 4: Start Buying From iTunes If You Don’t Already
 

It is common that a lot of people still prefer to free download some songs via some illegal source. That sounds nice but there are several problem need to fix. Firstly, it is poor quality and from a dodgy source. Spare yourself cranking the volume up to maximum to here the lyrics and just buy your songs from iTunes, where everything is great quality by default.
Secondly, everything above is already done for you if you buy from iTunes. Download from another source and the song info will probably be wrong, along with either missing artwork or somebody using the artwork to gain exposure for their site. Wouldn’t you rather have a great, high quality, official graphic than a grey music note?

Summary

Do all those things and I promise that your music collection will look great and organize in no time. If you’re lazy and don’t have the time to do this yourself, you have no need to worry about it as there is an alternative available here for you. Tenorshare iTunes Music Cleanup offer a suite of powerful cleanup function to help you automatically clean your iTunes library in just 1 click. I have ever test it and it really worth a try.

11 Best iTunes Tips You Should Know

Do you think you are skilled in iTunes? If not, here I would like to share 11 must-know iTunes tips with you.

Back Dating: Back date your Albums to them time when you have brought them. For example if someone bought you a Elvis back in 2000 as a gift. Make sure that the date you enter in the library is 2000.

Genre: Change the genre of some of your biggest artists and you will have changed genres of hundreds of songs. For example, search for Pink Floyd and change the Genre of songs to Rock n Roll or anything and you will see a lot of progress.

Automatic Album Artwork: By registering yourself on iTunes which you can do using Paypal too, you can automatically download album artwork from the iTunes Store. In order to so that from the Advanced menu, choose “Get Album Artwork.”

Create Ringtones: Paying $0.99 for a ringtone on iTunes store regardless of the fact that you already own the song, is pretty stupid to me. However, you can use iTunes to create rintones from the songs you already own and listen to everyday.

 

Smart Playlist: For tracks with no genre, no artist name, or no year set up an Unrated (0 Star) Smart Playlist, and SPLs. Create an SPL for tags with no year, then type 20 in the search box and you will be presented with a list of songs with 20′s in their properties comments. And here you can chage year quickly which will save you  heaps of time.

Music transfer: In just one step you can add songs from a CD into a playlist. All you have to do is select the CD in the Source pane and then drag a song (or songs) from the CD tracks list to the white area below all items in the Source pane. iTunes imports the song into your library, creates a playlist and then adds songs to it. The same procedure can be used to enter new tracks into existing playlist.

iTunes Genius: The iTunes genius feature is not that genius at all. It slows down your computer and iTunes by sending random data to Apple and also creates playlist that sync with your iDevice each time you connect it, thus wasting your time. We recommend you turn off the Genius feature under the drop down menu of  “Store”.

Wish Lists: There might be many songs on iTunes store that you would like to buy and  at that time might not be in a position to buy but are planning to buy it in the future. Now, how do you find one when you want it? Simple, Just make a wish list. Create a new playlist in iTunes and then shop the iTunes Store. When you find a song that you want, drag the listing to your new playlist. You can then listen to a preview of any item on your wish list and even buy it directly from the playlist too.

Parental Control: If there is stuff you would like to keep away form from naughty children or oldies you can change the parental control by going to the iTunes Preferences, and clicking on Parental. Then Select the items you wish to disable or restrict and then click the lock to prevent changes. To change your settings, click the lock and then enter your password to gain access again.

Backup: Perform frequent back ups so that you don’t have to go for collecting your precious music from the bottom again if your data is lost sometime. You can do this by going to File, Library, Back Up to Disk. You’ll get the option to back up the entire iTunes library and all playlists, or just your iTunes store purchases, or even just items added since your last backup. This option is best for backup of a small library to a blank DVD.

Update: iCloud pretty much turned this feature useless. With iTunes match, you can store upto 20,000 songs in Apple’s cloud storage and if you have a lower quality song, they will replace it with a higher quality song.

That is all, if you have any more good iTunes tips, please don’t hesitate to contact with us.