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TidySongs Cleans Up Your Music Genres
7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac OS X: TidySongs is an Adobe AIR application that analyses your iTunes library to find duplicates, clean up tracks, and better organise your genres (something that’s always been the black hole of metadata with my music). More »
Six Best MP3 Tagging Tools
2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A well tagged MP3 collection makes everything from organisation to playback easier. Keep reading for a closer look at your fellow readers’ favourite tools for cleaning up their MP3 tags in this week’s Hive Five. Photo by Darin Barry. More »
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Doc Scrubber Removes Hidden Metadata From Your Word Docs
6:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Every time you save a Microsoft word doc, Word embeds gobs of potentially embarrassing metadata in your document, meaning that when you send a document off to someone else, you may be sending more than you intended. Free application Doc Scrubber analyses Microsoft Word documents for hidden data, scrubs the document of any metadata you tell it to, and then creates a new clean file. Doc Scrubber can scrub whole folders at a time and offers a lot of control over what it scrubs and how it does it. If you do a lot of work in Word—especially with sensitive material—Doc Scrubber could come in very handy. Doc Scrubber [via gHacks] More »
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TuneUp Music Metadata Cleaner Beta Invites For Mac
2:10AM Adam Pash | Windows users have been enjoying music metadata cleaner TuneUp since we first posted about it, but now TuneUp’s ready for your Mac. It’s currently an invite-only beta, so if you’re interested, send an email to lifehacker@tuneupmedia.com with a message containing your name and only your name. They’ll send an invite back your way sometime today. While you’re at it, check out previously mentioned GimmeSomeTune. UPDATE: Looks like we reached our invite quota. If you didn’t make the cut, you’ve been added to TuneUp’s email list and will be alerted when it’s officially available. More »
Design
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools Edits A Photo’s Metadata
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a full-featured metadata editor for your digital photographs. The app supports pictures saved in RAW format along with JPEG and TIFF, and editing your metadata works the same no matter what your default file type is. Apart from extensive run of the mill metadata editing, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools’ marquee feature is geotagging, which can add location information to your photos in a number of ways. Once geotagged, you can view any of your images on a Windows Live map. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is freeware, requires .NET 3.0 and Windows validation (blech). If you’ve already got a favourite metadata editor for your photos, let’s hear about it in the comments. More »
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Tune Instructor Brings Advanced ID3 Editing to Your Mac
6:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free application Tune Instructor adds advanced ID3 tag editing for your iTunes library through a smart third-party utility. The iTunes helper boasts features like search and replace for your tags, or it can set ID3 tags from a filename or set filenames from ID3 tags. It can automatically search and embed album art or lyrics—though I ran into issues with German-language lyrics sometimes showing up rather than English. The application has a lot of potential, and works well overall. I did run into a few peculiarities when testing it, but overall it offers advanced, worthwhile ID3 editing beyond what iTunes offers by default. Tune Instructor is freeware, Mac OS X only. Tune Instructor [via Cool OSX Apps] More »
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TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes Your iTunes Metadata
9:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Music application TuneUp scans your iTunes library to fill in and clean up your music’s metadata, including album art. After you install it, just point it at songs in your library you want to clean up; TuneUp fingerprints and analyzes them and then provides a diagnostic overview of your missing or incorrect metadata. You can then verify and clean up all your metadata with the stroke of a button. In theory it’s very similar to previously mentioned MusicBrainz, but it’s an altogether fresh take with a few more features. More »
Fix
1:01PM Angus Kidman | It’s not surprising that Google decided
to make a submission to the ACCC over eBay’s controversial plan to
make PayPal the sole payment method available on the site. It’s not
surprising that Google asked that its name was kept off the public
version of its submission. And sadly, it’s not surprising that — as
a great story at AuctionBytes reveals — an
Australian eBay user, David Bromage, managed to deduce Google’s
involvement by looking at metadata attached to the PDF file. But is
it possible to avoid those kinds of problems?
More »
Google’s eBay glitch shows importance of checking your metadata
1:01PM Angus Kidman | It’s not surprising that Google decided
to make a submission to the ACCC over eBay’s controversial plan to
make PayPal the sole payment method available on the site. It’s not
surprising that Google asked that its name was kept off the public
version of its submission. And sadly, it’s not surprising that — as
a great story at AuctionBytes reveals — an
Australian eBay user, David Bromage, managed to deduce Google’s
involvement by looking at metadata attached to the PDF file. But is
it possible to avoid those kinds of problems?
More » 
MP3-Check Finds What’s Missing from Your Metadata
6:50AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Freeware application MP3-Check examines your music library to weed out files that are missing important metadata or those that don’t match certain criteria. iTunes built-in duplicate finder is pretty limited, but MP3-Check similarly weeds out MP3s using criteria like bit rate, sample rate, and gain volume. As an added bonus, MP3-Check handles huge directories of MP3s with aplomb, and when you find files that don’t meet your standards, you can launch your favourite metadata editor and set things straight. MP3-Check is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 2.0. MP3-Check [via gHacks] More »
