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March 28 2014 - 9:57 am

NEW: Playlists By Volume v1.0

Had to round up some files located on disparate drives, but iTunes tracks can't be sorted using any file path information.

Playlists By Volume will sort the tracks of your iTunes library into discrete playlists based on the volume name of each track's file's location.

Takes about a minute per thousand tracks to complete.

More information and download is here.

March 16 2014 - 12:18 pm

Reveal Multiple Selected Tracks' Files

I occasionally have need to access the files of tracks that may not always be in the same "Album" folder. iTunes has a "Show in Finder" command (Shift-Command-R) for single tracks so to reveal all the files from disparate folders I have to "Show in Finder" each of the tracks, one at a time.

But what if I could open each selected track's file's folder in its own tab in a single Finder window? Like this:

Each tab is the containing folder for the file of each selected track and each file is highlighted. Even if two or more files are in the same folder the folder will get its own tab for each file.

The script follows:
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March 6 2014 - 1:33 pm

iTunes Store Power Search at Your Fingertips

Kirk McElhearn posted today about accessing the (kinda hidden) iTunes Store "Power Search" panel:

The trick to making this panel visible is to use this link, which I suppose you could bookmark in your web browser and Command-Tab to that whenever you wanted to power search. But in the last century human beings invented AppleScript to free themselves from time-consuming drudgeries like that.

Just enter this in AppleScript Editor (or click the little script icon to open it automatically):

tell application "iTunes"

open location "itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch"

end tell

Name it whatever you like and Save it with the Format of "Script" in your ~Library/iTunes/Scripts/ folder. Then assign it a shortcut in iTunes.

This post was updated on March 9, 2014.

Also see this post: More iTunes Store Power Search at Your Fingertips.

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