Cleaning up iTune Library

The moment I moved to Mac OSX, I decided to more the whole iTune library for Windows world to the Mac world. I completed the process, but found out that a lot of files have messed up ID3 Tags and filename. It seems like some of the ID3 Tag are not really in unicode format, and those they showed up incorrectly in iTune under Mac. So I decided to spend some time to fix them all up.

At first I was trying to use a program called MusicBrainz Picard, but it didn't work for me. Then someone told me that there's a tool called Unicode Rewrite that may work. I tried and it didn't.

Finally I found something that actually worked for me: I loaded those problem files in the Windows app Mp3Tag, selected them all, and saved them again. Interesting enough, 95% of the problem files was fixed, although I still need to manually fixed some of the files.

After I fixed all the tags, I use "Consolidate" feature of iTune on Mac, and it changed all the folder and file names based on the proper ID3 Tag, now instead of crazy file name, I got all the file name in human readable form.

But then I faced another problem. iTune Consolidate files, but didn't remove all those leftover empty folder. Right now I am using Mr.Clean to clean them up. Hope it works.