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We have seen concepts of the Software Monkey logo and are excited to see what people will think when it is released. With many technology based blogs out there today, the site definitely has it’s work cut out with trying to gain a spot in this market. For now we wish good luck to Softwaremonkey.com and hope that the seas are smooth from here on out!

If you look at your impressive media collection in iTunes, you’ll probably notice that a number of songs don’t have album artwork attached to them. So what? You might ask.

Well, it certainly isn’t going to affect playback or your listening pleasure, but when you’re listening to your iPod, being able to see the artist an album in an attractive picture, that can make the entire experience much more pleasant.

How Can You Get Album Artwork in iTunes?

There are two basic ways that you can add album artwork to iTunes in fix you library collection. The first way is manually. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on ‘Advanced’. Then scroll down until you see ‘Get Album Artwork.’ Sounds simple enough, right?

Sure, but there are a couple of things you should know about this process. First, when you select this, your iTunes library connects with the iTunes store. This exposes your entire list of songs to a major corporation that is helping the music industry crack down on file sharing, so if you don’t have certificates for the songs in your collection, there’s always the chance that it is reported (a thin chance, but there’s a warning that pops up when you do this, so you decide).

Second, if your song titles and other information is inaccurate or missing, you’re manual search for album artwork isn’t going to be effective. While you may get some new artwork, you’re not going to get it all and you’ll be back to missing those images that you’d like to have.

The other method is to use artworkforitunes.com. This site allows you to search for album artwork that might be available for your songs, but it also helps correct incorrect or missing information in your library.

Kill Two Birds …

With another tool, Rinse My Music, you get your entire music collection cleaned and organized in a way that makes it easy to find just what you want to listen to as well as all of the album artwork that is available on the Internet. If the artist didn’t provide any artwork for their album, then it’s not going to be available anywhere. But if it’s out there, then Rinse My Music will find it and download it for your collection.

What’s great about this program is that we tend to overlook the importance of having an organized playlist, but when it’s all cleaned up, you’ll wonder how you ever got along with it the way it was before.

If you’re and Apple user than when it comes to organizing and fixing your music library the best tool to use is a proper mp3 tagger for mac. There are several different tagging programs to choose from but their is one that has received the best reviews and pulls from the most extensive database of mp3 tag information on the planet. The program I’m speaking of is called Rinse. Its a sweet adobe air app that can functions as a quick and easy to use automatic mp3 tagger for iTunes.

Sometimes it might feel like Apple rules the world in some ways, and when it comes to mp3 payers they more or less do. This isn’t by accident off course, considering that iPods, iPod Touches, and iPhones have the most user friendly and quality mp3 player system available. When iPods came on the scene with their simplicity and dependability, they took the mp3 player market by storm and now completely dominate. But with their great music players comes one thing that doesn’t always quite cooperate how we would like it to. The thing I’m speaking of is the required software to use any Apple music player: iTunes.

Off course from a business standpoint it makes perfect sense why they would keep their users binder to only one music management program. But things aren’t always so peachy with iTunes, especially when you borrow a burned C.D. from a friend and go to import the songs into your iTunes library. These are where the improper tagging issues often occur. Than most of us are left manually going through and renaming our songs which can be quite the headache. Patience is hard to come by with most people these days especially when it comes to mindless activities like retagging mp3 files in iTunes. But with the help of Rinse you can stand relieved and watch the automatic mp3 tagger work its magic on your music library.

In just a few clicks of your mouse the program will begin scanning your songs and automatically retag your broken mp3 song names. Beyond just fixing song names the program will also fix the artist name, album title, genre and all the information associated with your songs.

Sound to good to be true? Well thats exactly what when I first heard of automatic mp3 tagging software. But after using the software firsthand I was amazed at the power and functionality of the application. It scans each song and gives you an accuracy percentage for the return mp3 tag data. The user has the choice of fixing each song one by one or completely automating the process by having Rinse take over work it’s magic.

How Exactly Does This Mp3 Tagger Work?

1. First the application scans each song and identifies any problems or missing tags

2. Next Rinse returns the corrected information and gives the user two options: One click confirmation or complete automation

3. Finally the software completes the mp3 tagging process and gives your library the restoration you have been longing for.

To familiarize yourself with the program I always recommend people download the free trial version of this popular Mp3 Tagger for iTunes and Mac users. The trial version provides 50 free song cleanups and will allow you to see four yourself the legitimacy of Rinse and whether or not it can handle your mp3 library’s unkempt tags. To grab a copy of the free trial just click the download link below and you’ll get your free tour of the software.

Download Your Free Trial for Windows and Mac OS

A Final Note…
This is usually what most people do because they are naturally skeptical of a application that claims to automatically retag mp3 song names. But as with most things that are free you really don’t have much to loose. Just maybe a few minutes of your time which most people have already wasted when they manually repair mp3 tags. So why not take the program for a quick spin and get this mp3 tags looking all clean and pretty? Its just a download away, visit the Rinse homepage to find out more about this incredibly popular iTunes mp3 tagger that is saving people thousands of hours of mindless busy work.

Well with this article we will take a closer look at the growing id3 tag mislabeling problem taking over music libraries all over the world. Im sure you’re familiar with broken id3s like “track 01″ and “unknown artist” but don’t have the slightest idea how to repair these id3s.

You can visit Wikipedia for the technical definition of an id3 tag and the “metadata” they contain.

Well there are several methods we will take a look at and hopefully you can find the best answer for your id3 tag fixer problems.

So how have these id3 tag problems become so rampant?

Firstly the digital music age brought about music sharing and P2P sharing which forever changed the game. With massive amounts of music being exchanged each and everyday there are bound to be issues with improper tagging of the songs in exchange, To make a long story short; we’ve got broken id3 tags and we need to fix them asap.

In a moment I will introduce you to a cutting edge script that allows you to fix id3 tags automatically and without much user involvement. Its basically a set and forget program that restores your music back to order.

The program I am speaking of is called Rinse My Music. It works by automatically scanning your tags and repairing them with the correct or missing tag info. The program is being hailed as the best id3 tag editor on the market.

Its quite the simple process to use the program, without explaining the complexity of what it is happening on the back end of things. The software works in a 3-step process.

1. The first step is scanning your id3 tags with their intelligent scanning technology

2. Next the program identifies any misspelling or missing information

3. The final step is correcting these broken tags and restoring you music library back to true order.

Download your copy of Rinse through the button below…

So there you have a it, a quick, easy and automated way to repair id3 tags without much involvement on the user’s end. And who could complain about that? No one wants to spend countless hours editing and tweaking their song information manually when we’ve all got busy lives. Let Rinse be your saving grace by using it’s powerful id3 tag editor/fixer technology to remove the hassle on your end.

Good Luck!

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.

When we have the Rinse Discount Code available you’ll be able to CLICK the discount link and Reveal the Current Deal.

How To Get Your Offer Code Once It Becomes Available…

Step 1. Click the banner below

Step 2. A new tab will open up in your browser revealing the discount code

Step 3. Copy and paste the code into the discount code box and click “apply”

After the Tidysongs to Rinse transition, we are awaiting a discount code or promo code to offer. We should have the updated RinseMyMusic offer code up soon, so be sure to bookmark this page and check back for an update.

Searching for the current discount code or offer code for Rinse? This page will be updated regularly with all available deals and promotions for RinseMyMusic(Tidysongs). If you’re searching for a deal on the program, you’ve come to the right place. Its a great way to save a few extra bucks before you clean up your music library. Discount codes and coupon codes are such an easy way to save on online purchases.

Tidysongs was offering an exclusive discount code for all of our visitors but since their recent acquisition by RealNetworks we our now waiting for a new deal. Once the coupon code becomes active it should only remain valid for a limited amount of uses each month, so you’ll have to be sure to jump on the deal soon as soon as you can.

With a simple copy and paste you can save on Rinse, making the software substantially cheaper. Its actually about a 12% discount and should only require about 12 seconds of your time to use. If you have any friends that could use a copy of this handy cleanup tool, you can refer them to this page so they can grab the offer code discount before checking out.

Please contact us if the current Rinse coupon code(formerly Tidysongs) is no longer working. If this is the case we will email RealNetworks and have them extend the promo for you.

**Update**

The Rinse Offer Code for 2011 is coming soon! We should have an active code shortly after the program’s release. The offer will allow you to save a few bucks on your Rinse purchase code making the programs price quite a bit more reasonable.

Be Sure To Check Back Soon!

When you download music from the internet from unreliable websites, the song information coming with these tracks is either missing or in\correct. This results in a complete mess-up of your library since do not know where you can find one of your favorite songs. Moreover, when you play these songs on you iPod, most of the time, you can only see a gray space when you run you run in Cover flow mode. This happens because your music has no album artwork.

These days, there are two main applications available on the Internet that can be used as cleanup programs. Both of these programs have their advantages and drawbacks. The question for you is very simple. Tuneup vs Rinse(Rinse My Music once know as Tidysongs)

Which one should you choose?

Before jumping to any conclusions, let us examine the facts and see what features each of these programs has to offer:

Features available with TuneUp Media

*Song cleanup
*Album Artwork Finder
*Concerts updates
*Artist information from youtube and wikipedia
*Facebook share feature

The price of TuneUp Media is $39.95 for a year and $49.95 for lifetime.

Features available with Rinse

*Removing Duplicates
*Cleaning up of library
*Finding and linking album artwork
*Providing proper genres for your songs.

The price is just $39, payable once at download.


Rinse vs TuneUp Media

We can see that both the applications offer almost similar features with minimal price variation.

Though TuneUp provide a few more additional features, they have got nothing to do with the proper organization of your iTunes library. Whereas Rinse is tailor made for providing you with the problems you face with your music. If you try both programs you will also see a remarkable difference in the way RinseMyMusic work. It is highly effective and very efficient. Above all, it needs the least amount of your interaction because most of the work is done automatically.

TidySongs(Rinse) can not only remove all your duplicate songs with remarkable ease, it can also provide genres for all your songs which helping keeping your songs organized and manageable. Once your songs are properly tagged, you will find it much easier to locate and listen to any song at any given time.

Another feature of Rinse is that it is compatible only with iTunes which renders it tailor-made for using with iPods.

Let’s leave it at that. Both of these software applications provide free trial versions. You can download both of them and make test runs. This way, you will be able to judge for yourself which of the above two applications is more suitable for you.

Use the links below to grab your free trial offer of each program…

You can actually download a free trial of TidySongs if you only have a small amount of songs to fix and give it a quick try. Or if you are skeptical as to the effectiveness of the program than the free trial should definitely set your mind at ease. Enjoy!