When its about iTunes I prefer stats talking over me. With over 9 million songs in the database and more than that in user database, iTunes is unarguably the most popular and comprehensive music store in this universe. So for all you iTunes lovers, here are 20 cool add-ons that can make your iTunes experience richer.

1. Synergy

Synergy is a very old iTunes app that has grown into stature with each passing day. A tiny little app that puts basic iTunes controls in the menu bar, for playing, rewinding, fast-forwarding audio tracks and displays real-time track information in a small floating window. You also can assign system-wide hot keys for controlling iTunes without the mouse. You gotta like it.

2.  iTunes Monitor

iTunes Monitor is one of iTunes’ most useful tools. The ability to share music across a local-area network is a unique speciality of iTunes. But keeping the privacy into account, iTunes doesn’t provide much information about who is connected or what is being shared. This utility monitors iTunes to provide a solution for this inconvenient.

3. iPodRip

iPodRip allows you to get the most out of your iPod. You can transfer music from your iPod back to your iTunes Library, listen to music directly on your iPod -saving valuable disk space, plus much more. iPodRip gives you flexibility importing songs of any file type including MP3, AAC, Audible.com, and Protected AAC. It is available not only for MAC, so if you want you can download a PC version from here

4. RadioLover

With RadioLover you can: record internet radio streams as individual MP3 songs, schedule recordings of your favourite daily or weekly shows, record multiple radio streams at the same time, split and organize recordings by song, time or size.

5. CoverSutra

CoverSutra includes music search, a mini-player, Last.fm integration, keyboard shortcuts, and album cover display.

Though the price is a bit too much, still if you wish you can have a trial and make your choice clear.

6. Moody

Moody lets you tag your music based on color. The app has a spectrum of 16 different colors to classify your moods. From there, you can pick a combination of colors to create a dynamic playlist based on your mood.

It is free and works a charm.

7. Tangerine!

Tangerine! lets you easily create playlists of upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It works by analyzing the BPM and the beat intensity of your music. Spend your time listening to music, not making playlists.

8. FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes lets you control iTunes and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from Firefox. it is a firefox add- on and pretty effective for internet addicts so that they don’t have switch between windows to use the internet and the iTunes. All under one roof. pretty cool.

9. G-Force

G-Force is an audio visualization plug-in for media players and can also visualize auxiliary or “line-in” audio. It is intended to entertain on its own, but there are many ways it can be customized and extended.

10. EvilLyrics

EvilLyrics automatically searches for lyrics of the song currently playing in Winamp, and display them in a tiny window. You can also store lyrics for offline viewing. This version supports Windows Media Player Foobar2000, Sonique, Winamp, and RealPlayer. The sheer support and control of multiple players make it a must have.

11. Volume Logic

Volume Logic improves the quality of your music by digitally modifying your audio in real time. It is good for them who wanna buzz their ears off with bits, the rockers I mean.

12. Fetch Art for iTunes

Fetch Art allows to automatically download album art from music in iTunes. It uses album art from Amazon.com, and the ID3 tags in the MP3 files to determine the appropriate CD cover to download.

13. iWOW

iWOW is an audio enhancer. It uses different settings and effects to make the audio larger, fuller, and more crisp than what iTunes can do.

14. SimplifyMedia

Simplify Media lets you share your music using iTunes. It is simple, safe and legal to access your home music library over the internet and to connect with friends and family. Simplify Media is a free download for PC and Mac, and it works with mp3s as well as wma and aac files.

15. My iTunes widgets

My iTunes Widgets are simple, self-updating add-ons for your web page, social-networking profile, or blog. Use My iTunes to share your top reviews, favorite artists, and new music, movies, and TV shows from the iTunes Store with anyone who visits your site.

16. Aurora

Aurora is a free Alarm Clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV.

17. Goombah

Goombah is your personal music search guide that works with iTunes - with lots of free music to download. Our music lovers cover all genres - alt rock, jazz, blues, country, rap, folk, heavy metal.

18. DiscoBrick

DiscoBrick takes visualizers one step further and creates some cool and amazing visual effects based on the beat of the music which are perfectly in sync and if you love dancing the whole audio-visual effect will make your feet tap.

DiscoBrick is priced at $10.95.

19. EyeJamz

This program locates album artwork and automatically adds the cover art it’s to the music library. You can play any album from within EyeJamz by just right-clicking an image or hitting the Play.

20. Soundflavor DJ (Windows)

Soundflavor makes audio fingerprints of your music and builds playlists based on similarity of those fingerprints.

Conclusion

I know I have missed many, so if you have any suggestion to include in this list, please let me know and I will. Happy tuning.

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