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With the Cover View feature on the new iTunes 7 release, I was motivated to catalog my misc music files. Improperly tagged files will not pull the album art. Correct file name standardization helps but also one must be sure that the meta data gybes. I discovered several utilities that assist. Picard and Magic MP3 Tagger allow manual edits as well as semi-automated meta data searches. You start with various clues such as artist, album and track names. Example: INKARI – Mi Raza – Music Of The Andes – Vol 3 – Surupana (Yaravi-Sikuri) Peru D.R.A3.mp3 A Google keyword search led to a latin music site Google Translate aided. Surprisingly, Amazon.com has a rather extensive music database. Other online db tools are freedb.org and the excellent MusicBrainz.org The rewritten file name, after the detective work and head scratching, uses the Artist – Album – Track Number – Song Title convention and reads thus: Inkari – Miraza – 10 – Surupana (YaraviSikuri).mp3 The preceding was a tough nut. If your taste runs toward the more popular it’s an easier task.

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