[Howto] keep your iTunes library in sync with your music cache.

If you use iTunes as your music player of choice you can probably testify to one or more great features that it has to offer. However, Every yin has it’s yang, and for Apple it’s the fact that they “assume” that you will either rip a cd (that you own of course) or buy songs from the iTunes music store.

The problem is that most people already have a large collection of .mp3’s. So if want to add an album to an existing iTunes library the process is … well… harder than it should be. If you were to just drop the album in your normal music location the iTunes library and actual music in the collection cache (see definition above) do not match.

This tool however makes this process much easier.

It’s called the “iTunes Library Updater” and some of its features are:

• Adding new music or video clips to the iTunes library.
• Removing entries from the iTunes library that point to non-existing files.
• Synchronizing the iTunes library with one or multiple directories.
• Updating iTunes track information with meta information out of the media files.
• Updating your iPod.

Usage:

The main window is pretty straight forward. The two main features I use the most are the ability to add new music to the library. The second feature I use is the “clean orphaned entires” feature.


Main Window

i_tunes updater (Main Page)

Update window

While Running

Overall I feel like theiTunes Library Updater greatly reduces the time spent trying to keep your music and iTunes library synced up and is definitely worth a look.

Download it here.

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