Song Sergeant

iTunes is one of the most widely used multimedia platforms around, with almost 1 billion registered accounts. Not surprisingly then, the media application has seen a lot of utilities designed to somehow improve its users' overall experience while browsing, listening or buying music. Song Sergeant is just one such practical program that allows users to clean their iTunes multimedia library.

The application is designed to remove duplicate song files, as well as to repair inconsistent metadata entries within current songs. Broken entries or orphaned songs are also detected and one of the great features of the program is that all the results found are placed in separate tabs.

This allows users to check each entry and decide on the actions to be taken. Scans are performed automatically upon launching the application; if, however, the tool fails to detect any issues, a quick remedy lies in making sure that iTunes is configured to share XML data with third party programs.

Depending on the issues found, users can take several actions, including deletion of the duplicates found, migration of orphaned songs to the iTunes library, as well as renaming inconsistent entries or removal of broken links.

A great feature is the ability to fine-tune scans, as users can select which metadata or file attributes to be analyzed and compared. For example, one can compare entries via titles, artist names, file size or kind, as well as any number of mixes between these parameters; a 'duration' slider can also be employed to improve results based on the track length.

To conclude, Song Sergeant is a practical tool for anyone who regularly uses iTunes to play or buy songs. The program allows its users to easily cleanse the playlists of duplicate, inconsistent or missing media files and the thoroughness of the scans can be adjusted to improve results and eliminate false positives.