Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Macintosh
Song Sergeant is an OS X app that cleans up problems with your iTunes library. Duplicate songs, orphaned files in your iTunes folders, and missing songs are no match for Song Sergeant. It scans and fixes your library, allowing you to manually decide what to do about each individual file, or just taking quick, ruthless automagical action if you prefer.
If you don’t make any manual decisions, and just let Song Sergeant make every change it suggests, your library will probably end up significantly tidier than before. Where Song Sergeant really shines is in the details, though, like the clever way it handles duplicates. Song Sergeant treats song metadata and audio separately, so when you have a duplicate, you can keep the audio from one file and the song info from the other.
I was quite happy to apply Song Sergeant’s fixes for inconsistently-named songs, albums and artists. When there’s a conflict – I had both “Eels” and “The Eels” in my lbrary, for example – Song Sergeant suggests which version of the name is probably correct, and does a pretty good job of it. Out of 30-ish inconsistencies in my library, it only picked the wrong version once. Although Song Sergeant doesn’t have the flashy features of some other music-cleaning apps – like cleaning up album artwork – it competently completes its assigned tasks.
Song Sergeant whips your music library into shape originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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