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How to Clean Up iTunes Library Easily on Mac

While being proud of your big music collection on iTunes, sometimes, you may get irritated by having to spend so much time cleaning up the whole library. The fact is boatloads of music may lack basic information like artist, album, genre and more. Even though iTunes can download this kind of information automatically, mismatching happens from time to time. And album artwork, the important factor for better visual effect and management, is totally missing. What’s worse, you need to repeat clicking a single song and waiting for its information to show every time. And also, you cannot take all the information to go with you when playing music in other players or transferring to portable devices.

To get around all these issues, Wondershare TidyMyMusic for Mac is what you need. It does well in helping cleaning up iTunes music on Mac from every aspect. Install this program and then follow us to see the step-by-step guide.

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1 Add iTunes library to the program

When you open the program after installation, it will scan the entire iTunes library instantly and add all the music to the Tidy iTunes tab.

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2 Start to clean up iTunes

Notice a Scan button on the top in the above picture? Click it and keep the two checkbox selected, then the program will start to identify all the unidentified music and remove duplicate songs. During the process, tag information, cover art and lyrics can be searched out if available in the database or the internet.

After all the information is found out, select a song in the list and have a look at its information in the right column. If you are satisfied with it, just click the Apply button on the bottom.

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3 Edit tag information if you want

Also from the first picture in this article, you will find an Edit icon in the right column after selecting a song. This is for you to add in any information you like. Click on the icon and type in any word in each item.

After all the simple steps, your entire iTunes library will be neat and clean with complete information while you can easily locate songs with the help of the artworks. By the way, this program can also clean your local music in almost the same way except you need to import music to the Tidy Music tab first. Hesitate no more. Download it to start cleaning up iTunes.

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