If your iTunes library consists of more than a few hundred tracks, you're probably familiar with Doug Adams and his Dougscripts website. A treasure trove of iTunes-related AppleScripts, the site has long helped plug the gaps in Apple's music player, and allowed music fans to better manage their growing libraries. Adams' TrackSift goes a step further, bundling nine useful tools with a simple graphical front-end for easier use.

The first time you open TrackSift, the application scans your iTunes library, gathering info on all your tracks. The tools are grouped into three tabs: Options under Make Special Playlists can gather artists who are represented by only one, two, or three tracks in your collection. The Find Tracks Without... pane offers to collect tracks that are missing artwork, lyrics, or that aren't on any playlist. From there, you can use other iTunes tools (or scripts from Dougscripts) to perform additional actions.

Unlike the other two sections, the Clean pane offers tools that do more than just create specific playlists. You can delete missing tracks, remove empty playlists, and re-assign genre tags to your tunes. Editing genre tags ended up being the most useful option in TrackSift. After 15 years of building a digital music collection, my library is full of weird and arbitrary genres — so much so that the tag stopped being useful. De-genre allows you to quickly replace or merge genre tags, or delete genre information entirely.

Working with any of the included tools is simple, and when TrackSift is done, a pane slides down letting you know the results of your action. We tried all the actions, and even on a large 200GB library, TrackSift worked without a hitch.  

TrackSift is based on scripts that are freely available on Dougscripts, but the convenience of a graphical interface and having multiple options bundled together is well with the minimal price.

The bottom line. If your iTunes library is full of crud, TrackSift can help you sort and organize to get things back in order.