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If you care about maintaining your music collection, sooner or later iTunes will frustrate you. At that point, 3rd parties can create scripts to control it in some really amazing ways. Here are the the essentials I use…

1. Quick Convert
   Uber-easy way to compress your existing Library files. The default 128Kbps AAC sounds as good at MP3 does at 192. You can probably save about 30% of your disk space by compressing down bloated MP3s. Use with XiphQT to recompress OGG or other formats to any of the iTunes encoders (AIFF, ALAC, AAC, etc). And did I mention quick and easy?!
2. Find Album Artwork with Google
   First place to look for most covers. Saves typing or endless copy/paste.
3. Discogs.com.scpt
   Better quality covers (especially for more obscure bands) than Google. Also great for track listings and year.
4. Search Wikipedia
   Good quality covers and metadata, especially for classic albums.
5. Super Remove Dead Tracks
   When files get moved or removed iTunes gets confused and believes they’re still there. Then you get an annoying exclaimation point and no sound! When this happens, you should run this script to prune the ghost tracks.
6. MetaX
   Ultimate video tagger. Perfect for movies, music videos and TV.
7. X Lossless Decoder
   Speedily transcode 1:1 FLAC, APE and other formats to ALAC or other formats for playback on all our idiotPods!

Amazon actually sucks for album covers I find, so don’t bother. Also don’t forget to put the scripts in your ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder. Happy tagging!