Last week I suffered real frustrations with iTunes. I find the software superb at playing and arranging music, however for large libraries some real frustrations can occur.

For example when I add music to my Music folder in Windows, you would expect iTunes to be able to watch particular  folders for changes, automatically adding music to the library. You would also think that it would be easy to delete large quantitities of duplicate items, as well as being able to delete (in bulk) tracks that have broken links. But perhaps our expectations are too high for something that is free?

Introducing iTunes Toolkit, a free piece of software that provides the functions that iTunes lacks. As a very small application it offers a surprising amount of features. You can scan you library to delete duplicate and broken tracks. You can also choose a folder on your computer, allowing the toolkit to add to iTunes any music files that have been recently added.

Overall this has really made my iTunes management so much easier and making my iPod so much easier to update.

Visit the iTunes Toolkit website here: http://www.xintercept.com/ittk/download.html

Tags: iPod, iTunes, music library, wizard