Songster 4+

I've been using Songster since version 1, and it continues to be a great piece of software that saves me a lot of time. In the course of my job, I am quite often given a large batch of mp3s and m4a files to import and label. In the past, this was a very time consuming process to manually enter this information. When mistakes are made in this information, it can be very costly to a show. Songster quickly and reliably grabs the information already in those mp3s and gives me an ALE that I can import into an Avid bin and then batch import the files with all their metadata filled in. I only use the Avid portion of the program, and I only use "file name" for the name field. This allows me to select all of the files in the batch import window and once I match up the first one, the rest fall into line. (drag all files into one big folder for easiest batch importing)

I had an issue once and got a response very quickly that was helpful.

For those of us still using Final Cut Pro 7, this is a really fast and seamless way to get metadata from itunes (AIFF) music cues into FCP.
Songster uses FCP custom columns and you have total control over where and how the information shows up in your project.

And the best thing is: you just drop a folder full of (iTunes tagged) AIFF files onto Songster and a bin shows up in your FCP project with the audio files and all the artist, album, genre, comments etc. information.

I think it's genius and I would not want to work without it any more.

Can’t say why. It must be something in the odd character names or something. But that shouldn’t happen. Otherwise it’s a great tool.