Auto Sort and Organize your iTunes Library for Free!

I have a friend who shall remain nameless, but he spends a decent amount of his waking weekend hours sorting his iTunes library. His biggest pet peeve in life is a song without album artwork...

Good to know, then, that there's a free application you can download that works like a charm for sorting unruly and unorganized iTunes libraries.

Pollux, a free beta application for Mac OS X, recognizes the audio fingerprint of the tracks you've uploaded or downloaded and corrects the song's title, artist, album, art, lyrics and more.

Now personally, I've never been very careful about organizing any kind of files, so I've never seen—nor sought out—an application like this. But over at Lifehacker, where we first potted this site, they've tested it out against some other known iTunes organizers and found that, for it's price, it's one of the best out there.

Head to Pollux's site to check it out.

Via Lifehacker

Comments (1)

I too know the pain of your friend 9,895 songs all with correct album art, names, artists, years, track number and self-selected genre.

Pollux was a dream to find the other day as I had just found a hard drive from years ago with a couple hundred songs on it that hadn't made it into my library. Sadly they were not categorized like I have my music now (I was so irresponsible as a kid!). Pollux tore through them and while it didn't get everything right, it did take a significant amount off of the table for me.

But the free aspect is what got me, I have tried other options like TuneUp before but they never were accurate enough for me to warrant paying for them. Especially when this is a feature that iTunes should have built in anyways.

posted by Benji on October 2nd 2009 at 2:49pm
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