Sound but No Pictures18th Apr '09 by Andy  Up
until about a year ago I was firmly against the iPod, and then after being firmly
#*$$£? off by just about every other device I finally decided to follow
suit, got an i-pod and have never looked back, ultimately it’s a very
good mp3 player (don’t worship it – it just works) , it’s
an iPod classic 160gb and that’s more than enough space if you just like
music like me.
Anyway I digress, the real reason I write is because when I got the iPod it
meant having to rip my entire CD collection to iTunes which was fine, just took
a little while to do. Now this meant having my CD collection all available in
one place … great … however this new device also came with a cover
art feature … great … or not, it’s all good as long as you
only own music that’s in the iTunes library, which to name but one excludes
the entire beatles back catalogue (of which I own a great deal).
So I am mainly writing here to let you know about a magnificent tool which
after a great deal of research I found Tune Up - http://www.tuneupmedia.com/.
This tool will work through your entire musical catalogue and locate any tracks
without cover art and fill in the blanks, as well as cleaning up any track names
for CD’s that could not be found (couldn’t test this iTunes seems
pretty good in most cases for this). Unfortunately the free version only does
50 cover art’s, but the meagre price tag of just $30 is well worth it
for a fully functioning iPod.
If you’re a Mac user there is a free application that by the looks of
it will do much the same thing (don’t know – not a Mac user, unable
to try it) called gimmesometune - http://www.gimmesometune.com/. |
I've finally
managed to successfully set up my home media center for the spare room, yes
I know it's supposed to be easy - but hey I'm not that bright ok. I just thought
I'd mention some of the items I had to buy, and whether they're any good, along
with those major problems that someone else may be able to learn from.
