Automatically Retrieving Album Names for Unknown Album Songs in iTunes

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I'm running iTunes 11.1.2 on OSX Mavericks and have a bunch of songs of unknown albums. I know that we can retrieve album artwork from the album name, but that's not what I am interested in. What I would like to know is wether it is possible or not to retrieve album name for each song I have given only song name and artist name (and maybe the song file itself, of course).

All I found when searching for it is the unknown album problem when updating iTunes, or the album artwork retrieval from album name. Thank you.

Best Answer

Tagalicious

Whilst it has been discontinued, Tagalicious has worked well for me for a long time, finding accurate results to missing info on music in my iTunes library.

MusicBrainz Picard

A cross-platform ID3 tag finder for songs. Despite the fact that it doesn't integrate with iTunes specifically, the ID3 tags can be read by iTunes.

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