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30 Most Recent RSS FeedUPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v1.2
This applet will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, search and send (import) them to the Music app. Makes it easy to maintain an organized stockpile of exported Playlist XMLs to reduce the number of onboard Music playlists.
Also see Playlist XML Viewer which displays a single selected Playlist XML drag-and-dropped or chosen from any location.
This app is free to try in mostly full-featured Demo Mode. While in Demo Mode, only up to 3 playlists can be sent to Music per launch. If you like it you can purchase a code for $2.99 which will unlock the Demo Mode limitations. Launch the app and click "Register..." in its File menu to make an in-app purchase.
Latest version:
- Increased efficiency of XML parser
- Files in source list display appropriate playlist icon
- Added command to export just the "Smart Criteria" of a Smart playlist to an XML file
- v1.1 (dec 3 2025):
- Adds "Delete" command
- Added Expand/Collapse buttons for source list
- Adds setting to expand all folders at launch
- Better detection of loaded playlists
- Fixed problem with progress bar traveling
- Fixed issue with correct Total Time calculation
- Fixed some autoresizing issues
More information for Playlist XML Librarian v1.2 and download link is here.
NEW: Albumizer v1.0
This script will renumber the track number tag of the selected tracks incrementally in their play order, as well as providing track count, disc number and disc count tags and, optionally, additional album-oriented tags.
Also see the simpler Albumize Selection or the more general Increment Number Tags.
Latest version:
- Initial release
More information for Albumizer v1.0 and download link is here.
NEW: Tracks by Name Length to CSV v1.0
The award for longest track title in my library goes to Slim Gaillard for his 238-character "Opera in Vout (Groove Juice Symphony) (live): Part 1: Introduzione Pianissimo (Softly, Most Softly) / Part 2: Recitativo E Finale (Of Much Scat) / Part 3: Andante Cantabile In Modo De Blues / Part 4: Presto Con Stomp (With A Floy Floy)".
The reason I know that is because I ran in to a few other long-titled tracks and thought they really don't need all that crap in there. Some of them have entire Wikipedia entries for titles. Who needs 'em? I'll sort 'em up and chop 'em down. But then my brain sent a memo reminding me that you can't sort by title length.
Tracks by Name Length to CSV will make a CSV (comma-separated-values) text file listing tracks sorted by the length of their title (greater than 50 characters). The CSV will list the title, album and artist of the tracks as well as the title length.
Of course, a lot of Classical albums are up there length-wise. I won't edit those. It's the weird Zappa and Slim Gaillard stuff that better beware.
More information for Tracks by Name Length to CSV v1.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Albums Amiss v1.4
This script uses track information to calculate whether a particular batch of tracks with the same Album title represent an incomplete or over-complete album, with either too few or too many requisite album tracks. Also, albums with missing Track and Disc information will be considered "amiss". Such batches will be copied to a discrete results playlist where they can be examined. The entire Music library or a selected Smart playlist can be scanned. (To be clear: the script does not check some kind of online database; it uses the extant local track entry information. Thus, tag accuracy is essential.)
Latest version:
- Fixed an issue displaying 0 results
- Accommodation for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Albums Amiss v1.4 and download link is here.
Count Selected Tracks in Songs View?
Did I tell you that, evidently, the Music app doesn't show the number of selected tracks in the playlist's Status Bar when the playlist is in Songs View? Yup.
Wait, it doesn't show the Status Bar at all when the playlist is in Songs View. Luckily, no chains can keep me from writing this simple AppleScript:
tell application "Music"
try
set sel to selection
set numberOfSelected to (count of sel)
set s to " tracks"
if numberOfSelected is 1 then set s to " track"
display dialog ((numberOfSelected & s & " selected") as text)
end try
end tell
Comes out like this:
Apple TV AppleScript is Busted
Correspondents have been reporting that scripts which were working fine with the TV app pre-Tahoe are now not working very well at all. After finally getting around to having a look, I can confirm that things like "get view of front browser window" and getting a selection—essentially the way to get the selected playlist or the selected tracks in the TV app—do not work. You will invariably see a "No tracks selected" alert under such circumstances.
As you were.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v1.1
Playlist XML Librarian will list exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, search and send (import) them to the Music app. Makes it easy to maintain an organized stockpile of exported Playlist XMLs to reduce the number of onboard Music playlists.
I use this thing regularly myself. So, you can imagine.
Also see Playlist XML Viewer which displays a single selected Playlist XML drag-and-dropped or chosen from any location.
Latest version:
- Adds "Delete" command
- Added Expand/Collapse buttons for source list
- Adds setting to expand all folders at launch
- Better detection of loaded playlists
- Fixed problem with progress bar traveling
- Fixed issue with correct Total Time calculation
- Fixed some autoresizing issues
More information for Playlist XML Librarian v1.1 and download link is here.
Album Art Makes My Year In Review
The Photos app just notified me that it has prepared a special "Year In Review" album or something. The notification also contained a sample photo, no doubt meant to trigger a longing to see all them pitchers I took this year. But the picture was the cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album. Which on first glance was bewildering.
I forgot that I exported a kabillion album covers into Photos with the Save Album Art to Photos script.
Swap Light-Dark Modes
Just did some fiddlin' with the site to make it a little responsive to dark mode settings. So, to celebrate, here's a script to swap modes rather than jogging into System Settings whenever. I have it in the system-wide Scripts menu.
tell application "System Events"
tell appearance preferences
set dark mode to not dark mode
end tell
end tell
Folder Action to Add Files to Year/Month Folders
So now that I'm a Playlist XML exportin' maniac, I created a Folder Action to automatically file the exports to my "Playlist Exports" folder into Year/Month folders, according the date of save. Here it is. When a file is added to the folder the script is attached to, it moves it to a newly-created or existing Year/Month hierarchy:
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving theseItems
repeat with anItem in theseItems
tell me to processThis(anItem, thisFolder)
end repeat
end adding folder items to
to processThis(anItem, thisFolder)
set yearMonthPath to (do shell script "date '+%Y:%m_%b'") as text
-- Y=year, m=month number (for sorting), b=month abreviation. eg, 2025:06_Jun
try
set folderPath to (thisFolder & yearMonthPath) as text
tell application "Finder"
try
exists folder (folderPath as POSIX file as alias)
on error
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of POSIX path of (folderPath as text)
end try
move anItem to folder folderPath with replacing
end tell
end try
end processThis
