USE ADD–ONS FOR BETTER SOUND AND TAGGING
FIND THE FOLDER
01 Download the scripts you want from dougscripts.com. Next, put them in /[username]/Library/iTunes/Scripts. On a Mac running a clean installation of macOS Sierra or later, you’ll have to create the folder.
SEE YOUR SCRIPTS
02 Open iTunes and click the script icon to the right of the app’s Help menu. You’ll now see the names of any scripts you’ve put in the Scripts folder. Note that if you want to add new ones, you’ll need to quit and reopen iTunes.
START A SCRIPT
03 Select the track(s) you want to fix or edit and then run the appropriate item from the Script menu. In this example, we’ve gone for Coverscope, which enables you to get embedded artwork and iTunes cover art in sync.
MAINTAIN THE LIBRARY
04 The ‘Artist – Name Corrector’, ‘List MIAs’, and ‘Super Remove Dead Tracks’ scripts can reconnect items with moved files, tame tags, and find and remove tracks whose files are missing but no longer wanted anyway.
USE YOUR BRAINZ
05 Musicbrainz Picard can tame even very big iTunes libraries. It scans your entire library for potential issues; if you select a group of tracks and then press Cluster, it will try to identify and group them in album clusters.
SCAN YOUR SELECTION
06 If you click your clustered tracks and then on Scan, Musicbrainz will compare them with the information it has in its massive database in an effort to match them. As you can see, there’s quite a lot of missing data here.
SAVE THE UPDATE
07 Ctrl–click on the album or track title and choose Save. This will update the data for track(s) automatically with the information from the Musicbrainz database. The software works quickly and an album takes just seconds to fix.
MAKE IT BOOM
08 Boom3D from Global Delight enables you to create different settings for each of your audio outputs: your Mac’s speakers, external audio device or different kinds of headphones, say. You can also control it with an iOS app.
TWEAK THE SOUND
09 Each icon on Boom3D’s UI is a preset, and you can adjust the strength of it with the little rotary slider that surrounds each icon. You can also dig into the settings to adjust features such as the surround sound effect.