Those of us with large iTunes libraries know that getting all that metadata cleaned up can be difficult at best. meta-iPod is a free downloadable program for Windows that provides the following features:

• File Metadata & iTunes Database Label Comparison
• Album Art Download & iPod Transfer
• iPod to iTunes Playlist Copy
• iPod Play Count & Rating Recovery
• Automatically Assign Ratings
• iPod to iTunes Track Transfer
• Scan folder sources & find tracks not in iTunes
• Automatic Duplicate Track Removal
• iTunes No-Location Track Finder

Each of these features can be run independently so if you feel that any of these features aren’t for you, there’s no need to run them. For example, I have a lot of Jazz in my collection. Therefore I have many different version of the same track by the same artist. Running “duplicate track removal” on my collection would be a disaster. On the other hand, I’ve found the “find tracks not in iTunes” feature very handy.