No matter how hard you hear to keep your iTunes library tidy , rather or later you ’ll find cobwebs growing in its corners . TrackSift 1.2.2(Mac App Store radio link ) assist you take a broom and dustpan to the far scope of your digital music collection .
For a set of iTunes - tweaking Perl playscript , TrackSift offers a handsome front end . Creator Doug Adams has given it a clean , cheerily renovate user interface that occasionally gets crowded , but always presents its options understandably . The program takes a moment or so to scan your library the first clip it opens , plus a few seconds on each subsequent launch , but the delay never proved tedious .
The app ’s skill worry three categories . Under the Clean tab , you could delete any raceway listings that direct to now - nonexistent files , sweep away empty playlist , or take away uncalled-for genres from your depository library ’s listings by shifting them en masse into another genre .
Under Find cut Without , you may produce play list of all the call that have no lyrics and no record album prowess , or a list of song you have n’t add up to any other playlist . ( Note that TrackSift wo n’t mechanically fetch graphics or add lyrics to any of the tracks it gathers . ) Its Preferences countenance you specify which genres to admit or exclude in your search , and set up distance limits for the Song dynasty it compiles .
In the “ Make Special Playlists ” category , “ One Hit Wonders ” scoop out up all the artists in my program library with just one racecourse to their names , while “ Two - Fers ” and “ Three - Fers ” create fun compilations with two or three consecutive rails from each artist .
TrackSift wo n’t sour miracles on your music , but it does what it promises , quickly and well . For such a little Mary Leontyne Price , it ’s a sensibly self-aggrandising hit .
