Ask any music lover about iTunes and he will instantly say that it’s a great program. There is no doubt that iTunes is , in fact, a wonderful application. But it does have its serious drawback especially when it comes down to foreign music. In this scenario, foreign music does not mean any music that is not in the English language. Rather, it means all the music that has not been downloaded directly form iTunes store. Thus, by definition, all the music that you have downloaded from any other resources or ripped from your own CDs, becomes foreign. When you upload these tracks onto your iTunes, you encounter a few problems that freak you out.

One of the usual problems occurs when you decide to play one of your favorite songs on cover flow mode. Hoping to see the smiling face of your favorite artist, you are presented with a gray blank space where no one is smiling at all. You realize that you had downloaded this particular song from an unknown website and there was no cover art with it. The iTunes artwork problem is one that is faced by most iTunes users.

So, what basically is the problem with iTunes album art? And why does it keep showing up all the time?

When you share music on the internet – music whose source is not iTunes – iTunes may not be able to recognize it. This happens not because iTunes has some ulterior motives. The reason is very simple. iTunes wants to protect the copyrights of the artist whose song you are listening. Since iTunes can only be sure about the music downloaded from its store, it sees all other music with suspicion and cannot decide whether you have the listening rights to this particular music.

Despite Apple’s good intentions, you may still want the cover art for your music. You can find a lot of cover artwork for your music on the internet. But you still need to download all of them and link them to your library one at a time. This is a very lengthy process and you are sure to get bored half-way through it.

Fortunately, there are applications available on the net that can get you out of this dilemma and fix the iTunes album artwork problem within minutes. And the best thing about the software is that they work almost automatically.

The application checks your entire collection and finds all the songs having missing album artwork. Then, it downloads the required artwork from a huge online database and then links it up with your song. And this is only a fraction of what this software can do for you. In other words, you can say that solving the iTunes album artwork issues is only a by-product of this application.

Apart from the above, this software fixes your mp3 tags, organizes iTunes genres, removes duplicate songs and rectifies spelling mistakes in the song, artist and album names.

The name of the software is TidySongs and it is easily available on the internet. You can also download a trial version of this software and see for yourself what immense potential this application has.