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January 30 2015 - 6:23 pm

iTunes 12.1

Apple has released iTunes 12.1 with fixes to device syncing and a new widget for controlling iTunes in Notification Center.

Things fixed: selection object for selected tracks in Audiobooks library works, reference to Audiobooks library via "get view of front window" command works. Things not fixed: View Options for CD display, Command-I shortcut for CD "Get Info". More as it develops.

January 28 2015 - 8:11 am

NEW: Playlists Info

Playlists Info will display a sortable list of playlists in the current library (or in the selected source) along with their size, time and number of tracks. I've been finding this handy for eyeballing playlist sizes when managing music between iTunes and devices.

Additionally, the script can export a text file listing that information.

More info and download is here.

January 10 2015 - 1:15 pm

UPDATED: Batch Export Playlists v1.4

iTunes can only export a single playlist at a time using the File > Library > Export Playlist... command. My mouse finger's inter-phalangeals are achy just thinking about exporting more than a few that way. Batch Export Playlists v1.4 will export each selected plain, Smart, and Genius playlist as individual XML or M3U files to a user selected directory. Such files can be re-imported into iTunes again later or into other devices or apps.

As a bonus, Smart playlist XML files can be exported as two files, with one containing just the Smart criteria.

This latest version adds a heirarchical view for Playlist Folders which more closely emulates iTunes' playlist view and has some minor tweaks for better compatibility with OS X 10.10 and iTunes 12.

More information and download is here.

January 9 2015 - 1:14 pm

NEW: Duplicate Playlist Folder as Playlist

iTunes turns fourteen years old today which makes it about a month older than this website. And I think I've only just noticed that Playlist Folders don't have a duplicate command. (Technically, Playlist Folders were introduced in September 2007 with version 5.0. I'm still surprised I hadn't noticed. I probably just forgot. Yeah. That's it.) Recently, I wanted to get rid of a bunch of Playlist Folders and dump their tracks into plain playlists and I figured a duplicate command might do that.

I suppose it's easy enough to just select all the tracks in a selected Playlist Folder and use "Playlist From Selection" (Shift-Command-N) but I also wanted to delete the original Playlist Folder in the same swoop. And doing all that that turns into a mittful of keypresses and mouse-arounds. Which makes my scripty-sense tingle.

Duplicate Playlist Folder as Playlist will copy all the tracks in a selected Playlist Folder to a new "plain" playlist, essentially duplicating the tracks as viewed when the Playlist Folder is selected.

Optionally, it will delete the selected source Playlist Folder and its contents (of course, the tracks remain in your library, but any playlists and sub-Playlist Folders it contains will be deleted).

Codesigned, free, and nagless, more info and download is here.

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