You can often find more information about any track in your library by right-clicking it and selecting Show in iTunes Store. TuneUp tops SongGenie as a music identifierįor songs you imported from iTunes, you can find song titles by right-clicking the track and choosing Get Track Names. Other nameless cuts provide some hints as to their identity, such as "Grisman 5" or "De Dannan Ballroom." I combined three different programs - one free and two fee-based - with some Web searching to reduce the number of mystery tracks in my 5,000-track iTunes library to fewer than two dozen. Many lacked any information about the tracks or artists other than a generic label such as "Blues" or "Cajun." Of the 5,000 or so files in my iTunes library, about 175 are named something like "Unknown," "Instrumental," or "Irish," usually without an artist name. Most of the cassettes were recorded manually (as opposed to being store-bought) and date back to the 1970s and 1980s.Īlas, my friends and I weren't always thorough when we made the tapes. Over the years I've used Audacity to convert about 2,000 songs from analog LPs and cassettes to MP3s and other digital formats. A follow-up post from last September explained how Audacity helps ensure that contiguous tracks always play in the correct sequence.
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In July 2011 I described how to use Audacity to convert LPs and audio cassettes to digital.