Corripio: Make Your Music Complete
Not everyone likes the idea of buying DRM’ed music; some people (myself included) still enjoy shopping for good ol’ CDs. But the trouble comes when it‘s time to load it onto my iPod. Things like album artwork and ID3 tags are usually missing, and if you want lyrics, good luck with that. Thankfully, Corripio attempts to change all that.
Corripio is an open source music manager that can fetch high-quality artwork, fix your ID3 tags and add lyrics to your music. To save you precious time, it is also smart enough to figure out where your iTunes library resides. It lists all your music at startup, allowing you to quickly manage and make changes. A great start!
The second thing you’ll notice is the interface. It is both beautifully simple and simply beautiful at the same time. To ensure that it looks good in Front Row or on an Apple TV, only high quality artwork is fetched (500×500 pixels) from places like the iTunes Music Store and Walmart.
Unfortunately, my hopes for fixing ID3 Tags were let down as it’s only limited to correcting capitalization, removing unwanted characters and getting the track number from filename (if it exists). Nope, it doesn’t correct or add artist/album information. Getting lyrics is also fairly limited to a handful of songs; I couldn’t find lyrics for most of my music.
A plugin architecture for languages like PHP, Ruby and Perl is available for those who want to add more functionality. On the whole, Corripio is a very useful tool that is still in its infancy. It does require a bit more work with lyrics and tags, but it’s certainly turning into a promising application. You can download your copy for testing from nClass Software.
While we’re on the topic of music collections, here’s a question for MacApper readers. I’d like to know: Is your music nicely organized with album art and tags, or is it a complete mess?
Corripo is alright, but limited. I find widgets a better solution for adding album art and lyrics. Amazon Album Art searches Amazon.com for album art, not as high quality though. Tunes TEXT is a great widget that has found the lyrics for 99% of the songs in my library.
If there is something out there for tags I would love to know. I want that metadata but can’t be bothered to add all of it myself.
iEatBrainz is what your gonna want Trevor. Get it at http://musicbrainz.org/ It fixes all you tags automatically. Works great for me.
My library is very organized and clean, but thats because thats how I am about everything on my computer. I’ll probably try this out to try and get my library even neater, though!
My library is fairly complete in terms of id3 tags but completely unorganised beyond that. Music brainz helped in getting the tags alright, interface is terrible. This program sounds pretty useless really.
I found ‘The Filter’ to be a great program to create playlists so I can avoid organising. Its free where Tangerine isn’t.
Everything in my library is at least tagged with the correct basic information. I’ve been going through and adding extended tags (art, release dates, composer credits) but it’s slow going because I’ve got a HUGE library.
I recommend going to Doug Adams’s EXCELLENT iTunes scripting site (http://dougscripts.com/). He’s got a TON of very useful scripts.
I’ll check out Corripio and see how much it can help. I need all the help I can get!
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