ITunes library management software suggestions?

I've tried TuneUp but don't necessarily love it. Goal is to add missing lyrics, Artwork, fix artists names, etc.
Any other suggestions out there or is this the best one?

No computer program is perfect, I'll give you that. But I still think iTunes is the best one going, especially considering the price!
I think there's a market that Apple could tap into to have an iTunes Pro, costing around $50 that would have more robust library management tools, to solve the problem you're talking about, also allowing mutiple computers to more easily share and update the same library and stuff like that.
All that said, I think there are some workarounds that might help you:
1) I'm not sure why you "re-import" your library each time iTunes loses the connection to the files. Isn't it faster just to close iTunes and re-open it. If iTunes sees the files are present at startup the ! will disapear.
2) Someone on this forum recently suggested a good tip: create an automator action to automatically connect to your network drive when you open iTunes, so you don't have remeber to manually do that tedious step.
Does any of that help?
Sara.

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Howdy, archers!
I've been looking for a library management software, because there is a small collection of English and German books, video tapes and whatnot here in my university, and people want to replace the Access database someone made long ago to catalog the books etc. I found some apparently clumsy and poorly documented -- let alone, old. For instance, BiblioteQ, and Koha, which seems to be the better one, but I think it'll be somewhat complicated to implement (I'll be running it on Windows, but I'll try to persuade people that Linux is a better idea).
Well, I'll keep searching but if you people know some simple, smart library management software, please, let me know.
Last edited by revberaldo (2010-09-02 19:01:31)

I found a couple by searching the iTunes library for "Library management", but nothing that does exactly what you want. You may want to look into a general database app such as HanDBase, which is not specifically for books, but has a lot of available pre-defined databases, can do barcode scanning, and has a desktop version that it can sync with. I've been using it going back to my Palm Pilot days.

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Is there any kind soul out there on a Mac who uses Doug's iTunes Library Manager 5.3 and has upgraded from iTunes 9 to iTunes 10? Does iTunes Library Manager 5.3 work with version 10?
I am NOT looking for people telling me to use iTunes' own multiple library feature; I already have a complex multi-library/multi-preference/multi-hard drive set up and will only update to iTunes 10 if it works with Doug's iTunes Library Manager 5.3 (or if Doug updates; no mention of iTunes 10 on his website).
I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who's actually upgraded to iTunes 10 and is using iTunes Library Manager 5.3.
Thanks in advance.

Paris Jake wrote:
I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who's actually upgraded to iTunes 10 and is using iTunes Library Manager 5.3.
if you don't get any feedback, send Doug an email and obtain feedback from the horse's mouth
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I think the usual advice is to use the Rebuild command in Library Manager.
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I use iTunes Library Manager to manage 40 separate iTunes libraries (I have a LOT of music). I have secured album art for all of my music, some secured by iTunes itself, and some retrieved by me using Google Images and cut & paste. I only just noticed that an Album Art Work file has been created for each library, and each Album Art Work file contains all the album art for all the songs in all the libraries, so the same 2.3 Gig file exists 40 times on my computer. On my Mini, that takes up about 2/3 of the hard disk. Does anyone have any experience solving this problem?

OK, I'll try ... have you used AppZapper? It removes all traces of the application (but check in Spotlight just to be sure it's all gone) , so if you delete iTunes and reinstall it from your back-up disc, you should get back to normal. The other thing you can try is using OnyX to find any invisible files that might be causing the problem.
I'm sure you've thought of these things, but nothing else comes to mind.
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Library management software for Mac and iPhone

Hi all,
This is not a support question, but I thought someone here might have an idea for me. Googling around hasn't helped much with a question I have. I have a lot of books, and would like to have software to manage them that runs on both my Mac and my iPhone, and syncs well between the two. Has anyone had good luck with anything along those lines?

I found a couple by searching the iTunes library for "Library management", but nothing that does exactly what you want. You may want to look into a general database app such as HanDBase, which is not specifically for books, but has a lot of available pre-defined databases, can do barcode scanning, and has a desktop version that it can sync with. I've been using it going back to my Palm Pilot days.

Large storage question regarding Itunes Library Management

HI
I am running Itunes 7.4 and have a 500gb drive physically attached via firewire 800. I currently have my itunes preferences set to copy files to the library when added. My question is. Can I only have itunes physically manage and store my music on the 500gb drive while keeping my video on another drive and have itunes just maintain a reference. In other words I want to have multiple physical either managed or referenced by the itunes library.
How are you all dealing with this as your video and music libraries continue to get larger and larger?
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Create a second iTunes Library. Quit itunes - hold down the option key when relaunching iTunes and follow the directions offered.
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My name is Lucas osmond i am having difficulty trying to figure out how to do something to iTunes. Here is some background I have been a radio disc jockey for 20+ years. I have a very large library of music 40,000+ albums. A lot of my albums information is not in the iTunes database, I have taged 18,000+ albums. I have created a playlist with all of these albums I would like to remove everything in my library except for this playlist. The playlist is the question is 129.7 GB. My first attempt was to back up the entire playlist to a 160 GB iPod. I did this and and Then I enabled disk mode of the iPod and copied the folder called music to my desktop. The hard drive on my mac is 500 GB which means once I copied it to the desktop I did not have enough room of the computer to import the tracks into a fresh iTunes library. Is there an easier way to do this process? I realize i have a special case and what I am trying to do is not normal. If nobody comes up with any ideas is there anyway for a customer to talk to a Apple developer or iTunes engineer?

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ITunes library management

I currently let iTunes organize my library, I have "Copy files to iTunes Folder" & "Keep iTunes Folder Organized" both checked off. My Dj software reccomends that the i "UNCHECK' both those options. How do I consolidate all the music in all my "iTunes Media Folder" (which is in 9 thousand different folder pathways) into 1 folder, without copying the files and only moving them?

dj ikhan wrote:
How do I consolidate all the music in all my "iTunes Media Folder" (which is in 9 thousand different folder pathways) into 1 folder, without copying the files and only moving them?
You don't do it using iTunes.
So Serato has reccomended that I cosolidate all music into 2-3 folders.Sounds like a misunderstanding.Before you do this, I really, really, really recommmend you go ask Serato again about this and get some clarification.
This will simply make a big mess of everything.

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This looks interesting.
http://www.nitrobit.com/updateserver.html
Edit: maybe not on the price.It looks simple. But it looks like it integrates with WSUS. My director is wanting to lose the WSUS server, or at least look at the possibility. I'm not sure we are going to be able to do this. Solarwinds also integrates, but you can manage it along with the 3rd party updates from one console. I am good with that, but my director wants me to check and see if a product exists that completely replaces WSUS. The price looked great at first until you look at little deeper! :)

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TS1503 After an update on my iPhone 4, (I updated using my MacBook Pro) I first received the message, iTunes was not able to load all of iTunes library back on your phone, not enough free space on your phone. (not an exact quote, essentially the same mean

The complete iTunes library was already on my iPhone 4. Why would it all not go back on? It left out around 4 or 5 songs from my play list. How do I get them back on my iPhone?
Note: All software on both devices is up to date.
Then, I tried to sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I got the message, cannot sync your iPhone because there is not enough free space in the iTunes library (not exact quote, but same meaning).
I researched how to get more free space on my phone which might 'supposedly' alleviate the above issues. I removed some less used apps, and some photos and videos from my phone. Then, I tried backing up again. I still got the message there wasn't enough free space on my phone, and the missing songs from the iTunes library were not returned to my phone. I gave another try at syncing my iPhone. I still got the same message that the phone couldn't be synced because there wasn't enough free space in the iTunes library.
Any suggestions on how to remedy these problems will be appreciated!
BTW... I read a suggestion on the internet to restore my phone (I did this recently when something went wrong during a phone update and the whole process went 'hey-wire', shutting down before the update was complete. However, at that time, all of my songs and apps were still on my phone and stored in the iTunes library.) If I restore my iPhone now, will the apps and songs no longer on my phone be lost?
Sorry there are so many questions within the same 'New Discussion' thread I'm starting! But, I think all of these issues are somehow related.
Thanks!

I Have fumbled all day to this resolved, I'll run the battery down and see what happens afterwards. This is not good !

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ITunes library folder vanished from Time Capsule after iMac crash

Hi,
Up until tonight, I've had my entire iTunes library stored on my 1TB Time Capsule (TC) which is accessed by a couple of Macs. After a forced restart of my iMac, the iTunes library on the TC has disappeared. I was in the middle of a iPhone 4 sync if I recall ...
I've run Disk Warrior over the internal hard drive on the iMac to no avail. Disk Warrior cannot see the TC drive. I've disconnected all users and powered the TC off completely and let it restart. Again, the folder on the TC which contained the iTunes library has vanished. All other folders / files on the TC appear in tact.
I don't believe I've deleted it as the remaining disk space on the TC hasn't changed. So I think it's still there but maybe it's corrupted?
Does anyone know if it's possible to run a detailed check over the TC hard drive to see if there is some directory damage which is affecting the iTunes library.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated. I do have a backup although it's not quite up to date.
Regards
Mark
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