If you are anything like us (and you know you are) then your iTunes music collection is a total mess. You've got duplicates of songs, you've got screwed up titles that make it hard to find songs when you want to hear them, you've got some stuff with album art, some stuff without... it's kind of, sort of just like the randomly scattered disaster people's old LP collections used to get into... despite all of your plans to "clean it all up at some point". Well help has arrived to make the clean-up utterly painless. So no more excuses!
Yup, RealNetworks (remember them?) today announced the launch of "Rinse" a new music clean-up product that can rinse iTunes music collections clean. Available today, Rinse makes iTunes music collections much easier to browse, organize and enjoy by automatically cleaning up song duplicates, misspellings and missing album art that can plague collections. Entire iTunes music libraries can be fixed with just a few clicks.
"An individual's music library is a very personal investment," said Peter Kellogg-Smith, RealNetworks' vice president of product marketing for emerging products. "Rinse was designed to enhance this investment — and then to get out of the way."According to analyst estimates, avid music collectors have an average of 3,500 songs in their digital music collections. Duplicate songs, missing album art, and misspelled song titles and artist names make a music library disorganized and difficult to navigate.
RealNetworks, known for its extensive experience in digital media management, uses Gracenote®'s widely-acclaimed music recognition and identification technology and its media database to power Rinse. The Gracenote Global Media Database contains more than 8 million albums and 100 million tracks, ensuring that Rinse users will have the largest and most up-to-date database to fix their music libraries.
"Most music fans have acquired their digital music collections over several years, resulting in libraries that have inaccurate track titles, artists and missing cover art. This hampers music navigation, both on your devices, desktop and in the car," said Ty Roberts, Gracenote CTO. "We are pleased that RealNetworks is using our technology and database to keep the collections of music fans accurate and complete."
How Rinse Works
Rinse automatically looks up songs in the Gracenote music database and downloads the correct details for each song. Users can choose to fix songs one at a time in order to see and edit the details before saving them or choose to fix songs automatically.
Free Trial of Rinse
Rinse is a downloadable service available for $39 per year at http://www.rinsemymusic.com/ and is compatible with iTunes collections on both Windows and Macintosh. A free trial version is available that cleans up 50 songs in a user's library.
