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MPFreaker automatically fills in missing information in your music library. MPFreaker searches the internet to find out what album that song belongs to, the year that song was released, what genre that album belongs to, track numbers, even album cover artwork and lyrics - and automatically adds this information directly into your song files, in seconds.
By using industry standard methods, you can see and access the new information MPFreaker adds in any audio player which recognizes these standard information "tags", including iTunes and the iPod. Artwork, lyrics and other info
By using industry standard methods, you can see and access the new information MPFreaker adds in any audio player which recognizes these standard information "tags", including iTunes and the iPod. Artwork, lyrics and other info
What's New
Version 1.9.4:
- Improved information gathering
- Copes better with iTunes being unresponsive
- A crashing bug fixed
- Many other minor tweaks
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
- MPFreaker will work better with your iTunes music collection if iTunes is running at the same time.
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| Downloads:54,093 |
| Version Downloads:503 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : MP3 |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:17 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $10.00 |
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MPFreaker automatically fills in missing information in your music library. MPFreaker searches the internet to find out what album that song belongs to, the year that song was released, what genre that album belongs to, track numbers, even album cover artwork and lyrics - and automatically adds this information directly into your song files, in seconds.
By using industry standard methods, you can see and access the new information MPFreaker adds in any audio player which recognizes these standard information "tags", including iTunes and the iPod. Artwork, lyrics and other info added by MPFreaker shows on your iPod and iPhone. (older models may not support artwork or lyrics display)
By using industry standard methods, you can see and access the new information MPFreaker adds in any audio player which recognizes these standard information "tags", including iTunes and the iPod. Artwork, lyrics and other info added by MPFreaker shows on your iPod and iPhone. (older models may not support artwork or lyrics display)
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Tdu reviewed on 15 Dec 2011
MPFreaker has a reasonable price, a good feature set, and an interface that is easy to use. I am mainly using it to add artwork and lyrics. It's not the quickest tool (though quicker than some others I tried) but it seems to be accurate.
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thec13 reviewed on 27 Jan 2009
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klagreca reviewed on 05 Oct 2008
Developer is quick to respond to questions and problems.
Latest version works solid. There was a bug in a previous version that I found and the developer was quick to fix.
I highly recommend MPFreaker. Enjoy.
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siddhartha reviewed on 29 Jun 2008
Is the best to automatically fix ID3 tags, and add artwork to your library. Works relatively fast, too.
I have used a couple of programs to add artwork, but this one works well, and I am very satisfied.
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simonm reviewed on 21 Apr 2008
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I saw that as a GOOD thing. I only like embedded artwork.
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Not only that, but when the library finally loads and I try to get modificatios for *one* file, it beachballs for 2+ minutes and hangs the living sh*t of iTunes as well. It needs to be modified so it can scale up better.
OS 10.5.2 MBP 2 GB RAM
if the engine behind MPfreaker used some kind of parallel search requests, it would work better, perhaps by using the compilation/album title to pre-fetch data for the album before securing the artwork. it could then give you a choice on what album data to use, since not all albums are tagged properly by private or public users.
apart from the severe lack of speed and the tendency to butcher tags if you set it to overwrite (not recommended), the artwork collected is fairly broad and it works well, far faster than doing it yourself, though not as good as letting itunes do it for you.
in conjunction with a specific art viewer/fetcher to fix up the mistakes MPfreaker constantly and innocently makes, MPfreaker is a fine app.
Constantin reviewed on 30 Sep 2006
Unlike downloading artwork from the iTunes store, MPFreaker downloads artwork from around the web. As a result, it's potential reach is much higher, but the quality of the artwork is probably more variable as well. However, if you have a large collection (and anything that can be even remotely construed as obscure), the iTunes artwork servers are unlikely to have it, and MPfreaker may have a better shot at retrieving the info.
That is not to say that MPFreaker is incredibly successful. It too struggles to find artwork and other info sometimes. Then it's your opportunity to search google, amazon, and discogs, among other sites for the missing data. In these instances, I use MPFreaker to identify which albums are missing what, find the data online, and then paste it in via iTunes.
Another benefit of not using the iTunes store is to bypass the new artwork storage process that Apple has introduced as of iTunes 7.0... instead of storing the images in the song files themselves, the pictures are now stored separately in a folder for art. From a space/efficiency point of view, this is the right approach... Trouble is, many music/streaming devices out there do not yet have the ability built-in to read these folders, so I prefer to bloat my songfiles for now.
Unfortunately, every time the application hangs (and it does happen from time to time), the preferences file is obliterated and your registration information is lost. Frankly, re-entering the information over and over is getting awfully old. Perhaps the best approach is to make a copy of the preferences file so that I can simply copy it over the corrupted preference file.
While we are on the topic of improvement potential, how about a multi-threaded application that takes advantage of the fact that most of us have high-speed connections to the internet? The present app goes through the list one song at a time, and a review of IP traffic in that time shows almost no activity. By sending data requests for 10 songs at a time, MPfreaker could boost its output 10x and have zero impact on the host computer or its internet connection.
I bring this up because the average songfile takes 5+ seconds to process (never mind the time it takes to make "deep searches") and neither the CPU nor the Internet connection are the bottle-neck. Go over a couple of thousand files and your machine will be working on the problem for days. Combine that with stability issues, and you have a recipe for unhappiness. As I write this, MPFreaker is hung, again, while "Scanning Directory".
Another feature request that I would find very useful is if MPFreaker could hunt songfiles that have bitmap images in them and to convert them to JPGs at a set quality. Apparently, pasting images via iTunes may result in a bitmapped image being appended to the song file, so a lot of space gets wasted that way.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Aug 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 31 Jul 2005
I know of no other solution other than MPFreaker which will automatically find and add artwork en masse to your library. Indeed, if you're happy with manually working with each song, all you really need is Safari and iTunes.
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Vandulus rated on 28 Sep 2011
Shaquana Walton rated on 05 Mar 2011