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Coverscope

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Coverscope v2.8

For Music View/edit assigned and embeded artwork for selected track and its file

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Re-Embed Artwork v3.5

For Music Exports and then re-imports selected tracks' artwork

Scan For Double Entries

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Scan For Double Entries v4.3

For Music Locates sets of track entries pointing to the same file

Proper English Title Capitalization

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Proper English Title Capitalization v5.2

For Music/TV Title Cap various track tags, featuring editable exceptions lists

List MIAs

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List MIAs v6.5

For Music/TV Display, delete, create text file listing info of dead tracks

Who Da Album Artist

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Who Da Album Artist v1.0

For Music Scans albums for missing or inconsistent album artist entries

Welcome!

Download hundreds of AppleScripts for Apple's Media Apps that will help make managing your digital music and video collection easier and more fun!

What's AppleScript?

AppleScript is a simple Macintosh-only programming language that can control and automate actions on your Mac. AppleScript is already available on your computer as part of the macOS and many popular applications can be automated using AppleScript scripts. Scripts written for Apple's Music, TV and iTunes apps can manage files and track information, create playlists, interact with other applications, perform innovative tasks, and handle many kinds of chores with accuracy and precision which otherwise would be repetitive, laborious, and/or time-consuming.

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May 20 2026 - 10:51 am

UPDATED: Remove From Other Playlists v3.0

A Correspondent recently divulged to me that his Music library contains over 5K Smart playlists. I just had to tell somebody.

It reminds me of an old Punch cartoon showing a rather ragged gentleman with a face full of bandaids and a very shabby looking growth of beard sitting at a table writing a letter: "Dear Sirs: I have used the same razor blade daily for seven months. Is this some kind of record?"

Anyway. It's good to keep yer library nice 'n' neat in my opinion. You can start with this:

Remove From Other Playlists will load, list and examine a selection of tracks from a selected playlist in the Music app and then display the other playlists that also contain them. The tracks can then be batch-removed from any one or more of these other playlists.

Latest version:

  • Initial re-release

More information for Remove From Other Playlists v3.0 and download link is here.

May 13 2026 - 2:16 pm

UPDATED: Show Me the Track Info v1.1

This script will display track info from the playing or selected track in a floating window that can be configured to show the information in a user-configured order. Eight sections within the window can be drag-arranged into their order of importance. The window can then re-sized to only display as much of the information as is necessary. Handy for quickly surveying tracks without having to click-click-click for the Music app's "Info Window".

Latest version:

  • Adds guides to sections
  • Minor UI adjustments
  • Improved info gathering
  • Setting to enable/disable clickable section to reveal file

More information for Show Me the Track Info v1.1 and download link is here.

May 12 2026 - 10:03 am

Thanks, macOS 26.5

They fixed the thing whereby you try to click to select text on either side of a colon ("openThisFile:sender") and it selects the whole thing rather than the bit you wanted. Life is fresh and wonderous again.

May 5 2026 - 2:49 pm

UPDATED: Yer Stack v1.1

My Stack Alt is looking a little pale there at 5:12, but there's plenty of sides for the rest of the afternoon. In Hemiphonic Mode, of course.

Yer Stack v1.1 and also the others.

May 1 2026 - 11:01 am

UPDATED: Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3

Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. MP3, AAC and ALAC audio files have the capability to store artwork image data internally as metadata, thus allowing artwork to "travel" with a file. This applet will examine the files of the selected tracks (or tracks in the selected playlist) for artwork metadata. Eligible audio tracks whose files are capable of embedding image data but do not contain artwork metadata will be copied to a new discrete Results playlist.

Latest version:

  • Re-oriented scan settings
  • Accomodations for macOS 26 Tahoe

More information for Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3 and download link is here.

April 30 2026 - 12:05 pm

My App Was Nabbed by the Rosetta 2 Police

Apple has begun showing notifications at you if you run pre-Universal apps at your house. The notification advises you that the app depends on Rosetta 2 in order to run on your Apple silicon Mac and Apple will be phasing Rosetta 2 into oblivion next year. So now you know that app may not work in a year or so.

Got a notification on one of my own internal production scripts which made me laugh. I've been trying to get the notification again, but thank goodness it doesn't show everytime I use the app.

You might see this notification if you run old (5 years plus) versions of scripts from this site. Most all have been updated to Universal, so you should find out if there's an update. If not, let me know.

April 30 2026 - 11:50 am

UPDATED: Coverscope v2.8

Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. This applet will show both the assigned track artwork and the local file's metadata artwork (if any exists) for the selected track. The Track entry artwork well supports copy, paste and drags. Pasting or dragging image data immediately applies the image to the selected track's artwork and attempts to embed it. Additional tools can Embed or Apply artwork between track and file.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations and adjustments for macOS 26 Tahoe

More information for Coverscope v2.8 and download link is here.

April 29 2026 - 6:46 pm

UPDATED: Dupin v4.0.0

Gave the venerable Dupin a dose of updatium.

Mostly UI updatium. I also cleared out some older routines that were obsolete for this reason or that.

Dupin can examine your desktop music library to help you handle duplicate tracks. Mostly by helping you pick the ones to trash. But also by giving you an overall picture beyond what the "Show Duplicates" feature in the Music app gives you. Surely you know someone who's used Dupin over the years. They'll tell you.

Dupin v4.0.0 is a free update for registered users, $15.00 for new users, and $5.00 if your current registration is five or more years old.

April 19 2026 - 7:39 pm

NEW: Elevendy

The manic episode I've been experiencing lately whereby I am compelled to build tinker-toy audio players has not yet subsided. My story is that once I figured out how simple it is to incorporate the AVAudioPlayer framework into an AppleScript app, I can't stop making music boxes. I just threw another one on to the pile.

Elevendy plays 11 random songs in a row that are between the lengths of 1:30 and 2:40. Then, if you want, it will do it again with a different (maybe) random 11 tracks. And so on.

Because why not, that's why.

April 15 2026 - 11:04 am

NEW: Who Da Album Artist v1.0

As you likely know, individual music tracks can each have their own individual artist tag. But there are situations when a single mega-artist is handy-like-a-handle for an album of tracks. Like "Various Artists" for compilation albums or "Ray Charles" if it's Ray with different artists on each track. That's why our Founding Fathers created the album artist tag.

Every discreet album in your collection should have an associated "album artist". It's what you'd see as the display artist on the cover or spine of a physical album, for example. Here in the digital future, where albums have been disintegrated into tracks, there is no "album"; the "album" information is born by the tracks it "contains" so the tracks can be re-integrated as an "album" in yer third-party devices there. Thus, the album artist tag is more like an "album tag", rather than a "track tag". Each track of an album should have the same text in its album artist tag. In fact, having mixed text in an album's tracks' album artist tags completely neutralizes the purpose of the mononymnic album artist tag. And some screwing up your music library royally is also nominally possible.

I thought I had album artist configurations handily and dandily in hand over the years. So I was recently in mid-to-high dudgeon after noticing a bunch of albums whose tracks had incorrect or inconsistent or missing album artist tags. CHAAAArrrristopher Columbus! Like I really wanna spend a lot of time going through my library looking for albums with problem album artist tags. So instead I spent what probably would have been the same amount of time making an app that would do the album artist wrangling for me.

Who Da Album Artist will scan your Music library and if it finds any album whose tracks' album artist tags are missing or inconsistent (more than one per album, for example), will give you the opportunity to enter the appropriate album artist and sort album artist tags.

Latest version:

  • Initial release

More information for Who Da Album Artist v1.0 and download link is here.

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