Still, completeness is worthy for its own sake, right? 🙂 Unfortunately it doesn’t indicate what is missing, so it could be something like the release year of the CD, something that I actually don’t care that much about. Next up, let’s see if there’s any missing information on the track files in my relatively modest iTunes library on my PC laptop:Īh heck, that’s a lot of missing information! You can see I’m busy fixing it in this screen capture, which is why the bottom says “Downloading missing track details…” Others, like de-duplicate processing, identifying tracks that are listed in the iTunes library but don’t exist on the drive and finding music tracks on the hard drive that aren’t yet in iTunes are unique to Tune Sweeper. Indeed, some of the features in Tune Sweeper overlap features Apple’s already built into iTunes itself. You can also do this particular function in iTunes itself, by the way. Tune Sweeper can fix things up, or confirm that you’re good and everything’s properly configured: Sometimes, for reasons I can’t fathom, iTunes associates artwork with some tracks of a CD but not others. Hopefully you don’t have too many duplicates, of course, but even though they aren’t a big deal from the shuffle play perspective, they do waste disk space since you already have a copy of that particular track.Īnother useful feature for us completists in iTunes is track artwork. Ready to proceed? Click “Yes, Remove Duplicates”…Įasy enough. If you do want a pristine collection, however, choose which dupe or dupes to remove, chose “Ignore group” if you want to keep some of the other duplicates, and click the “Remove Duplicates” button on the top right and you’ll need to decide what to do with the dupes: With 7000 tracks, however, that’s lost in the noise. What I particularly appreciate about this view is that it makes all the preference settings that it uses to decide which to keep very obvious, as it also does with the criteria being applied to identify duplicate tracks.ĭon’t care about dupes? If you’re perpetually on shuffle play, it really can be invisible, with the only difference being that they’re 2x as likely to play as a track that isn’t duplicated. I’m a bit paranoid about duplicate tracks because my library is so darn large I don’t always remember what’s been ripped or purchased before I go to add tracks again.Īnd indeed, the new Julian Lennon CD Everything Changes appears to have been imported twice:Ī click on “Continue” and all the details are revealed: Launch the app and it’s pretty self-explanatory: For the modest license price of $24.99 - and a free version that you can start with to see if your library has any issues before you purchase - it’ll clean things up way faster than you could ever do so manually. Fixing it for a few thousand CDs? Fuggetaboutit!

Fixing that for a half-dozen CDs? No problem. The problem is, once things get messed up, it’s a lot of work to fix it, whether it’s mistitled tracks (I hate typos in track names personally), missing album cover art, or even entries for tracks or CDs that somehow aren’t on the drive any more, or have moved for some mysterious reason. If you have the disk space, it’s easy, and on our office file server, our master music collection is in the multiple gigabytes, thousands upon thousands of tracks spanning a wide variety of musical genres. Rip a few music CDs, download a few from the iTunes Store and maybe even get a dozen from friends via email or a flash drive and without realizing it, you have dozens or hundreds of CDs stored on your Windows PC.

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