Found a useful new tool for cleaning up ones iTunes libraryLairWare MPFreaker. Lots of songs, especially those ripped last century with SoundJam Pro, are missing year info, track info, etc. MPFreaker cleaned up several thousand of these songs in my library, chugging along, adding album names sometimes as well. A couple of times, MPFreaker got stuck on remotely shared songs, but if most of your music is on your main drive that wouldn't be a problem.
Imagine a program that automatically fills in the missing information in your music library — including artwork! Using innovative techniques, MPFreaker quickly searches the internet to find out which album your song belongs to, the year your song was released, the genre, track numbers, even album cover artwork. In seconds, all of this information is automatically added directly into your song files.
By using industry standard methods, you can see and access the new information that MPFreaker adds in any audio player which recognizes these standard information “tags”, including iTunes™, iPod™, and other MP3/AAC players. Artwork added by MPFreaker automatically shows on the iPod Photo's “Now Playing” display, for example. If you love your music library, you need MPFreaker!
(link originally via Tidbits)
This program, coupled with Musicbrainz (iEatBrainz), has really made a difference in giving me good data to build all the complicated playlists I have.
