The genre data is completely missing as is other information like the artist's album the song is featured on in case I'd like to buy it. However, none of these songs have been properly tagged. Many of these are rap or country which I have absolutely no interest in adding to my collection. My specific task at hand is that I have 6.5 GB of songs from SXSW. Ideally, it should do this automatically, and even more ideally, it should allow me to select a playlist in iTunes instead of having to edit the metadata outside of iTunes and then import into it. What I'm looking for is something that, externally from iTunes, uses psychoacoustic analysis (it "listens to the song") and then fetches the correct metadata from a database. This is fine for when you want to manually edit the metadata and for when you know what the metadata should be. ITunes itself allows you to edit the metadata (just select a song and do a Command-i). Perhaps you prefer different album art to represent it, or perhaps you want to add data to it such as "roadtrip music", and then you can search iTunes for music that you've tagged as being appropriate for a road trip. If you purchase music from Apple, it's almost always correct, although you might want to personalize it.
Sometimes this metadata isn't present, or it is incorrect. For example, a song file itself is data, but the information about the song is metadata.Ī song file contains all the bits to play, but it also contains, as part of the file, data that lets iTunes (and other players) know that the title, the artist, the genre, year, album, etc.
When you view your iTunes library, you can search or sort by various criteria regarding the song files.
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