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February 26 2015 - 9:37 am

UPDATED: Show In Playlists v1.1

Show In Playlists displays a persistent floating window that will list the playlists containing the selected or playing tracks in iTunes.

This latest version adds a toggle to monitor just selected tracks or just playing tracks. I also had to pull support for OS X 10.8 since it doesn't seem to like a few modern coding features. I may not be able to fix that.

Here's a short video showing how to make it go:

Show In Playlists is free to use for ten days and $1.99 to purchase. More information and download is here.

February 24 2015 - 10:18 am

UPDATED: Multi-Item Edit v4.0

Multi-Item Edit v4.0 allows you to edit most tags (and some additional options) of the selected track(s) in a single always-available floating window using single-edit mode (one selected track) or multi-edit mode, which emulates the pre-iTunes 12 "multiple items" format; that is, a checkbox adjacent to each tag allows you to select which changes are to be applied to the selection's tags.

This version adds Save and Load options so that a configuration of tag and options settings can be stored for later recall and use; adds Information Tracking toggling; adds a "Clear" feature; minor performance fixes.

Multi-Item Edit is free to use full-featured for ten days, $1.99 thereafter. More info and download is here.

Check out the video demo:

February 11 2015 - 12:20 pm

NEW: Show In Playlists

Show In Playlists puts up a floating window that lists the playlists that contain the current track selection. Whenever you select a track in iTunes, bam! The playlists that contain it will be listed:

It's sort of like iTunes' own "Show In Playlist" without the right-clicking and scrolling. In the screenshot, I've selected a track in the "Dropkick Murphys - The Singles Collection" playlist and the window displays the other playlists that contain the selected track. Select multiple tracks, as you might for an entire album or artist, and only the playlists that contain the entire track selection will be listed.

You can go through a list of tracks pretty fast. But I've also found it handy just having it hang-out off to the side of iTunes when I'm working on tracks. I've found a few strays that way.

Clicking a playlist in the list selects it in iTunes and, if there's just a single track in the selection, that track will be selected in the selected playlist.

The routine can be toggled off ("Freeze") such that the current list of playlists will remain fixed and selectable, so you can refer to the playlists in the list or navigate tracks and playlists in iTunes without the list updating.

Show In Playlists is free to try full-featured for ten days, $1.99 to purchase. More info and download is here.

February 1 2015 - 11:40 am

Books, PDFs Playlists?

Working with a script to get all the names of the playlists in iTunes, I noticed that two playlist names popped up in the latest iTunes 12.1 that aren't actually visible in my Playlists: "Books" and "PDFs". Here's a script that illustrates:

tell application "iTunes"

get every playlist whose name = "Books"

--> {user playlist id 60870 of source id 80}

get every playlist whose name = "PDFs"

--> {user playlist id 60873 of source id 80}

end tell

While I almost certainly have had "PDFs" playlists in the past, this doesn't appear to be some artifact from a past library. These playlists aren't in the XML either, but they have persistent IDs and low index numbers. I tried using AppleScript's delete command to remove them but it didn't work, which leads me to believe these are hard-coded and are supposed to exist. Not sure what this is about (iTunes does use invisible playlists from time to time) but it may be inconvenient and inaccurate if you use a script that lists playlists.

UPDATE: Kirk speculates that ebooks may be returning to iTunes.

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