I can’t remember the last time I played a CD - in fact I’ve given away most of my CD collection to a friend who had no music. All of music is stored on my computer, which I play either on my iPod or I stream onto my Xbox 360.

One of the problems with a large digital music collection, is that because so many sources have been used to add music (ripping CDs, downloads, bittorrent, iTunes etc) your collection can quickly get quite messy and unless you’re really on the ball with keeping your mp3s nice and tidy, then you can end up not being able to find the track you want to play as its not tagged correctly so you don’t even know which artist is singing a particular song.

Well, never fear. Here are The 10 Best FREE MP3 Utilities That Money Can’t Buy, that will allow you to get the most out of your music collection.

1. MusicBrainz Picard

MusicBrainz Picard is great if you have a really messy music collection. The latest version of Picard incorporates acoustic fingerprinting which will help you identify and tag unknown tracks, so at least you will now know what you are listening to! Tagging your music correctly is vital if you want to add artwork to your mp3s.
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2. The Filter

The Filter is a great iTunes plugin that automatically creates playlists when you select a few songs and click on the big black “F” button. So, rather than randomly browsing through your music collection The Filter can build playlists in seconds to fit your mood.The Filter is particularly great if you have a big music library, or you’ve downloaded a lot of music and you never get around to listening to it all. Now you can create playlists on the fly everyday for free in seconds.

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3. TuneSleeve

iTunes 7 makes a decent attempt at adding artwork, but it can’t add artwork if the ID3 tags are incorrect and it also doesn’t add the artwork to the ID3 tag which will mean the artwork won’t be displayed if you use anything other an iPod, or if you use another mp3 application.

The best way to add artwork without a doubt is TuneSleeve, which is the #1 app for adding artwork to iTunes music. TuneSleeve not only has a very intuitive interface allowing the best artwork to be selected or searched for, but it also adds the art to raw ID3 tag in the mp3 file so that all players can see the artwork.

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4. itunesexport

iTunes is great at creating playlists and managing music, but what happens if you want to use those playlists in WMP or you don’t use a iPod? iTunes Export is the answer as it allows you to export iTunes Playlists to the standard .m3u file format, which nearly every other mp3 player uses. This great free tool lets you decide what playlists to export, and whether or not to include protected files.

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5. BadApple

Are you one of those ’special people’ who don’t have an iPod and use a different mp3 player? Well if you are, but you still want to use iTunes which is the best music player around, then this great little application could be the solution. BadApple is a free plugin that allows you to sync your iTunes library with any MP3 player. It works with many popular players including Creative Nomad, Dell DJ, Oakley Thump and Archos.

More: BadApple (link is in German - sorry!)

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