Prepare to migrate from iTunes to the Music app with the TunesMechanic app

iTunesMechanic cover

All Mac compatible with macOS Mojave will be compatible with macOS Catalina. The new version of Apple's operating system will bring among its many novelties the replacement of iTunes by applications such as Music, Podcast or TV.

If you are one of those who have a large music library on iTunes, TunesMechanic it helps you to keep it up to date, eliminating caches and duplicates. It also allows you to perform some additional task, such as file repair or export. Now that the application is free at the time of writing the article, it is good to run it so that the migration to Music is done in the best way.

And that's the main feature of TunesMechanic, the iTunes Music Library Cleanup. Running TunesMechanic deletes playlists that are empty, deletes caches that in addition to gaining memory, makes iTunes faster boot. It also helps with topic names that appear with an incorrect form.

The app has recently been updated to the version 2.0 bringing all these news:

  • Improved detection and duplicate removal- In addition to analyzing the library, we can tell you to select the ones that match: title, artist, album, genre, track length, year, bit rate and sample rate.
  • Delete those iTunes titles where there is currently no file in the library.
  • Eliminate the playlists without songs.
  • Improved export songs to another unit, such as a Pen.
  • Correct the song title which are in uppercase.
  • Remove the extensions name in the name of the songs.
  • Delete duplicate artwork files or unnecessary.
  • Delete unnecessary iTunes files like iTunes applications.

iTunesMechanic interface

TunesMechanic is available on the Mac App Store for your discharge. Also at the time of writing this article the application just updated to version 2.0 can be obtained in a Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days. The application is expected to update when macOS Catalina comes out, to do the same function from the Music application.


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