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It only works with iTunes, but equally well on Mac OS X and Windows (xp, 7, vista).
But TidySongs also comes with other nice features: for example, the software allows you to add album artwork to your music library. There are of course other websites where you can find album art covers and download them for free, but TidySongs allows you to get the album covers automatically.
How to automatically add album artwork?
Once you have installed TidySongs on your computer, the main menu window pops up and you are offered four options to choose from:
Add album art
Fix your songs
Find duplicates
Organize genres
Choose "Add album art". TidySongs asks whether you would like to work on a specific playlist. If this is not the case, just click on "Music (all songs)" and the software will scan your entire music library to add album covers.
The second choice you have is between reviewing songs one by one, and reviewing them on an automatic mode. You may be wondering why not directly go for the automatic mode, but the "one by one" also has its advantages:
You can choose an album cover different from the one you would normally have; suppose a friend of yours is an artist and has designed a cover you like, you can choose to add it. You may also add another cover to differentiate live and studio versions of the same song. With TidySongs, the process won't be as tedious as it would have been if you had done it manually, as you are still navigating within the program; you don't have to go back and forth between iTunes and some external website where you pick covers from.
Before going automatic, TidySongs recommends you try the process with the "one by one" option, so as to make sure you are comfortable with the way the software is going to proceed. I feel it's a pretty cautious way to go, and I really appreciate that you can stay in control and can choose various levels of automation.
Transfer the album covers to your iPod
Once you have chosen the different album covers and that your iTunes library looks good, you can transfer all these album covers to your iPod, making it way easier to skim through!
So, here you can see how TidySongs is not only about how to delete duplicates in iTunes!
Finally, feel free to drop by if you want to know more about TidySongs, how to remove duplicates from iTunes and add album covers.
