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If you have ever moved your iTunes library (say, to an external drive) or rearranged your music folders than you have run in to this problem.  iTunes maintains its own database of information about your music files and expects you to make all changes to songs via iTunes.  Moving song files outside of iTunes causes iTunes to “lose” your songs – it thinks the songs in the new location are completely new songs and it can no longer find your old songs (because they were moved).  Lame, I know.

TidySongs make it easy to remove iTunes duplicates.  A duplicates feature is built in to iTunes – but it only finds songs with exactly the same information and won’t remove them for you.  You have to click and delete each one by hand and your out of luck if you have duplicates that are spelled slightly differently.  TidySongs makes all this easy.

People have no time or patience anymore.  If you want to succeed, make sure your thing isn’t confusing.

What button do you push for the UP elevator in the picture above?

Watch at least the first 30 seconds of this video (on YouTube).  You won’t be disappointed.

If you are new here or are reading this in a Feed Reader you should know that we just re-designed the cloudbrain.com website.   Thanks to Kyle for knocking the design out of the park.

For the curious:  This is still a Wordpress powered blog / site.  Kyle designed everything in Photoshop and we used the PSD2HTML service to slice everything up in to html / css / images.  That same service also did the final Wordpress theme coding.  (Yes, we could do all that ourselves, but why?).  Once the theme is installed, it took an hour or so of tweaking to get everything the way we wanted it (making sure the widgets worked, small design details etc. etc.).

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

As part of our Save The Songs campaign, we built the Challenge – a fun Twitter or Facebook-based app that will scan your iTunes music library and give you a report card.  It’s fun.  You should try it here.

We formally broke in the office this weekend with our annual Christmas party – complete with Cramer Photo party booth.  Check out all the pictures.  Merry Christmas!

After months in development, we have finally launched SaveTheSongs.org.  It is a (get ready for buzzwords…) viral social media marketing campaign for TidySongs.  We had a ton of fun putting it together and now that it is up we’re learning a lot more.  Let us know what you think.

Great short (3:53) video from Eric Ries on building a technology startup. The main point: How can you really know what you are building is something people want?