Or you can click Same Album at the top of the list to view only duplicates from - you guessed it - the same album. From the menu bar, choose View > Show Duplicate Items.įrom this list, you can view all duplicates, which will show the same song no matter which album it's on. iTunes makes it relatively easy to ferret out such redundancy, but Apple has moved it in iTunes 11 from the spot where you might have found it in previous iterations of iTunes. If your music library is sizable, then the odds are good you have a few duplicates in there. If dragging doesn't work, you can save the image to your desktop and then double-click the blank Artwork box to select a local file. Just drag the image from your browser to this box. On the Info tab will be a blank box for Artwork. In iTunes, click on the album in need of this art and select Get Info. Open the image in your browser and keep the window open next to iTunes. Find the art using Google or the search engine of your choice. If iTunes doesn't come up with anything, then you can add your own art. And it doesn't take iTunes long to search for art - only a couple of seconds, whether it finds it or not. In my experience, iTunes is successful in finding artwork for more mainstream releases and occasionally surprises me by finding more obscure albums, so it's worth a quick check before preceding to method 2. Right-click on a album that's lacking art and select Get Album Artwork. For the albums that iTunes failed to find art for, you have two options. I have found that iTunes is pretty good at grabbing album art it found art for the majority of albums I have imported to iTunes over the years, the vast majority of which were from CDs. Same for the Electronic, Electronica, and Electronica/Dance genre choices and the Country and Country & Folk genres. All the better for my Alternative genre shuffle. So, when I import an album and iTunes classifies it as Alternative & Punk, I change it to Alternative. I don't listen to enough alternative and punk music to have a genre for Alternative and another for Alternative & Punk. Genres in iTunes are selected via a pull-down menu and many are similar to one another. For example, some albums I perceive as reggae get categorized as World, so I will change them to Reggae for my reggae-genre-shuffling enjoyment. I'm a big fan of shuffling songs via genre (jazz shuffle during dinner, reggae shuffle on Sunday morning, a blues shuffle nearly any time of day), so I keep a close watch on how an album is categorized in this regard.
On the Info tab, you'll find various fields to edit. To tweak the metadata of a track or, better yet, an entire album, right-click on a track or album and select Get Info. The accuracy of a track's metadata depends on how you imported the track to iTunes. Metadata is your friendĮvery track in iTunes has data behind it that helps iTunes catalog it, from the obvious track, artist, and album information to year, track number, and genre. So, let's dust off iTunes and get in there and clean up your library.
If you take a little time to wrestle with the data behind your files in iTunes, you may rediscover the greatness of your underused or abandoned music collection. Or perhaps you were a mess to begin with and ditched your beloved collection for the simplicity and ease of a streaming service such as Pandora, Rdio, or Spotify. You may have started with the best intentions, but over the years the metadata got away from you. What better way to end our month of Spring Cleaning than with the odious task of cleaning and organizing your sprawling iTunes music library.
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