At first...I was mad at this application, but then I understood.

I have to admit I spent a couple days mad at this application.

You see...I have a large collection of music. over 18k files. When I first started using this app I would take my whole music collection and drag it into TidyMyMusic. TidyMyMusic would chug away for 5 hours, then crash. Then I would try again, and it would crash, and again, and again.

When I finally stopped throwing myself up against the TidyMyMusic wall. I took the time to break down my collection into folders. Each folder was just a letter of the alphabet. That seemed to narrow the scope enough to make TidyMyMusic happy.

It stopped crashing.

Once TidyMyMusic stopped crashing it worked as advertised…I was happy.

The Moral of this story is; dont throw TidyMyMusic more that it can handle. If it’s slow, or crashes, just narrow the scope a bit, and it will work just fine.

NOTE: My music collection does not fall into the genre of top 40, or NEW. So most, if not all, of my metadata was found just fine in the Gracenote database.

NOTE2: To really clean all the “crap” metadate out of my file collection as a whole, you shoudl really consider one of two tools. MEtadatics (which can be found on the app store) or Media Rage (which can be found out in the wilds of the internet.). TidyMyMusic is nice, and can fix what is there or add things to your metadate, but doesn’t generally delete anything. That model is Safe, but not exactly thorough. So you will need other tools to clean out the corners.

ianVanhoof about TidyMyMusic