Last updated on 2013-09-01, by David Brooks

How to clean up your itunes library on Mac OS X (10.8 included)

After years of use, your iTunes music library must have been flooded with duplicate songs, missed album artwork, songs with incomplete music tags, etc. Sometimes you may find your iTunes run slower and slower. In such case, it’s time for you to clean up iTunes library. To clean up iTunes library, you need to do at least two things: remove duplicates in iTunes and add missing album artwork to iTunes songs. iTunes 11.0.1 and late versions has the ability to do these two things, but not performs well.

Leawo Tunes Cleaner for Mac, however, could easily help you clean up iTunes library in only a few clicks. As a professional iTunes cleaner program for Mac OS X (10.8 supported), this Mac iTunes cleanup program could delete duplicate songs in iTunes, add missed album artwork, repair music tags, etc. Check the below guide to know how to clean up iTunes library on Mac.

Full Guide

Start Tunes Cleaner Mac for scanning

4 options on the home interface of this Mac iTunes cleaner program: Start to Clean iTunes, Open Music Files, Clean-up Duplicates and Load Saved Result. Click "Start to Clean iTunes" to start auto-scanning before it could clean up iTunes library on your Mac.

Start to fix and repair

The program would display all problems of your iTunes music library for you to clean up. Just click the "Fix All" button to clean up all problems.

Do manual editing

If any problems still exist after fixing, the program would also display them out. You can doublt click or click the "Edit" button to do manual fixing.

Video GuideSoftware

Tunes Cleaner for Mac
Clean up and reorganize iTunes music library easily
$29.99

Platfrom: Mac 10.6/10.7/10.8

Extended Knowledge

iTunes is a media player computer program for playing, downloading, saving, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop or laptop personal computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and ringtones (only available on iPhone and iPod Touch 4th Generation). It is also used to download application software from the App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.