As your music collection grows with options as easy as iTunes, MP3 dot com, and Amazon MP3 available to purchase music, we need equally easy ways to organize our collections. And with MP3 ID3 tags, sorting through your collection has never been easier.

I’m sure your MP3 player shows some of your songs as “Track 1” of “Unknown Artist”. This is because the tag information for your music collection is missing or incorrect. If the cover flow in iTunes looks like a sea of ​​gray squares, you need to update your MP3’s album art. And it can be nearly impossible to find your favorite song when album information is missing. Or even the style of music you want without the genre tag. That’s a lot of information once you include the year of production, track number, and lyrics. Finding and entering all that information would take hours to not just find it. Not to mention updating each MP3 ID3 tag individually.

Previously, you would need to use software like iTunes or Tag and Rename to manually edit the title, album, band, genre, and a dozen other pieces of information. But only after you’ve scoured the internet for the first time looking for all the information and unearthed an attractive album cover.

This is where automatic music organization can save you time. Programs like TidySongs or TuneUp will take care of all this work for you. Both work with iTunes to properly tag your entire music collection. And using them is as easy as installing and letting them run.

Both TidySongs and TuneUp will scan your iTunes collection and identify those songs with incorrect or missing MP3 ID3 tag information. TidySongs will track misspellings in your song tags so you can easily search your collection. Adding album and track information from Amazon.com. Tidysongs will also add quality cover art. TidySongs will also save you disk space by finding duplicate songs in your collection.

TuneUp also searches your collection to correct and update all of your music’s ID3 tag information. By specifically identifying your music by its acoustic fingerprint, TuneUp will quickly and accurately organize your music collection. Additionally, TuneUp will integrate with iTunes to allow you to seamlessly manage not only your music collection, but also concert dates and official band merchandise. TuneUp will notify you of upcoming concert dates based on your collection. So you never miss out when your favorite band is in town again.

And with the free trials of TidySongs and TuneUp on there’s no reason not to see how easy it is to organize your music collection.