Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Macintosh
Song Sergeant whips your music library into shape
by Jay Hathaway Aug 21st 2009
If you don't make any manual decisions, and just let Song Sergeant make every change it suggests, your library will probably end up significantly tidier than before. Where Song Sergeant really shines is in the details, though, like the clever way it handles duplicates. Song Sergeant treats song metadata and audio separately, so when you have a duplicate, you can keep the audio from one file and the song info from the other.
I was quite happy to apply Song Sergeant's fixes for inconsistently-named songs, albums and artists. When there's a conflict - I had both "Eels" and "The Eels" in my lbrary, for example - Song Sergeant suggests which version of the name is probably correct, and does a pretty good job of it. Out of 30-ish inconsistencies in my library, it only picked the wrong version once. Although Song Sergeant doesn't have the flashy features of some other music-cleaning apps - like cleaning up album artwork - it competently completes its assigned tasks.
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