Sound but No Pictures

18th 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/.