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The Big Picture v1.0 Find the large album artwork available at Amazon
Find Album Artwork with Google Perform a Google image search for album artwork
Search CD Universe for Album Search CD Universe website using the album of the single selected track
eMusic Search Search eMusic using selected or playing track's tag data
Search Amazon UK MP3 Search Amazon UK's MP3 website using terms from selected iTunes track

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Export Artwork v2.0 Save the display artwork of the selected track to a file
UPDATED October 28, 2009:
Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0 App displays files in iTunes Media folder which are not in iTunes library (10.6 or better)
UPDATED October 6, 2009:
Import iPod Audio Files v3.0 Select iPod tracks in iTunes and add them to iTunes
UPDATED October 6, 2009:
Number Song Names by Play Order v2.0 Prefix each selected track's Song Name with the number of its order in the selection.
NEW October 1, 2009:
Make Add-to-Playlist-Droplet v1.0 Create "Add to Playlist" droplet by selecting a playlist
UPDATED October 1, 2009:
Drop A Few My Way v2.0 Drag-and-drop to convert audio files with iTunes
UPDATED October 1, 2009:
Artist to Album Artist v2.0 Copy Artist to Album Artist of selected tracks
UPDATED September 30, 2009:
De-Genre v3.0 Helps manage and remove unwanted Genres
UPDATED September 30, 2009:
Embed Artwork v2.0 Embed artwork into selected tracks' files
UPDATED September 29, 2009:
I Hate That iTunes Done Chime! v2.0 Change the iTunes "done" chime to a System sound, no sound, or your choice of an AIFF sound file
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Super Remove Dead Tracks [178288]
Make Bookmarkable [157239]
Find Album Artwork with Google [102241]
Corral iTunes Dupes [91613]
Import iPod Audio Files [74120]
Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist [61321]
Embed Artwork [52131]
CDDB Safari Kit [50383]
Needle Drop [40059]
Remove n Characters From Front or Back [39783]
Corral All Dupes [36882]
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Append Date to Comments Enter a date which will be appended to the comments field of selected tracks
(Managing Track Info)
Rip To iPod Rips CD tracks straight to iPod
(iPod)
Append to Selected Tag Append user-entered text to beginning or ending of selected tag of each selected track
(Managing Track Info)
Search Artists to Make Sort Artist Assists with setting tracks' Sort Artist Tag
(Managing Track Info)
Copy Track Info to CD Tracks Update CD Track info with corresponding user-edited track info
(Managing Track Info)
Zero-Pad Initial Digits Pad single digit track numbers with a "0"
(Managing Track Info)
Make Bookmarkable Change file type to make selected AACs bookmarkable
(Managing Files)
Open iTunes Music Folder Open the iTunes Music folder in the Finder
(Miscellaneous)
iTunes -> NFO Summary of playlist as .nfo file
(Exporting Info)
PDF as iTunes Artwork Assists with saving PDFs as artwork to iTunes tracks
(Managing Artwork)

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CDDB Safari Kit v3.1

These two AppleScripts, "CDDB Safari" and "CDDB Tracks to iTunes via Safari", assist in finding and retrieving Album track information, Album, Artist, and Year from Gracenote's CDDB website using Apple's Safari browser.

Latest version:

updated for minor Gracenote page formatting changes

Info:

build type: Universal Binary
written by Doug Adams
latest version posted: September 16, 2009
latest version downloads: 3599 | total downloads: 50383
zip download size: 209.1K

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Guitar Tab Search v1.0

This script performs a search for guitar tabs on the Ultimate Guitar site for the currently playing or selected track. Visit the author's website.

Based on the now-outdated OLGA Tabulature Search script (OLGA is defunct) written by Michael Clabough.

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Ricky Brigante
posted: February 28, 2009
total downloads: 1486
zip download size: 93.8K

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Search Amazon UK MP3 v1.0

This script will use terms from the single selected track in iTunes as the basis for a search of the UK's Amazon MP3 (amazon.co.uk), the results of which will be displayed in your default browser. (Also see Search Amazon MP3 for US version.)

Info:

build type: Universal Binary
written by Doug Adams
latest version posted: December 4, 2008
total downloads: 529
zip download size: 125.1K

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eMusic Search v2.0

This script will let you use tag data (Artist, Album, Song Name, or Composer) from the selected or playing track in iTunes as the criteria for a search of the eMusic site.

Info:

build type: Universal Binary
written by Doug Adams
latest version posted: May 4, 2008
latest version downloads: 987 | total downloads: 2596
zip download size: 95.1K

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Search CD Universe for Album v1.0

This script will perform a "Title" search of the CD Universe website using the album of the selected track. CD Universe has some very good album artwork, generally at 450x450 pixels.

Info:

build type: Universal Binary
written by Doug Adams
posted: April 16, 2008
total downloads: 4244
zip download size: 92.4K

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Search Amazon MP3 v1.0

This script will use terms from the single selected track in iTunes as the basis for a search of Amazon MP3, the results of which will be displayed inyour default browser. (Also see Search Amazon UK MP3 for UK version.)

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Doug Adams
posted: October 10, 2007
total downloads: 2009
zip download size: 135.2K

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Search SlothRadio for Artwork v1.1

This script uses the Artist and Album name of the selected or currently playing track in iTunes to initiate a search for corresponding cover artwork using SlothRadio's Cover Finder.

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Doug Adams and Adam Glinsky
latest version posted: August 13, 2007
latest version downloads: 5292 | total downloads: 11162
zip download size: 109.2K

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Get Airdate and Network v1.0

This script will use the show and episode names of a single selected TV Show track in iTunes to search the IGN.com website for that episode's page and then parse that page for the original airdate and network. You can then either open IGN.com's page for the episode or add the info to the selected TV Show's comment field. Note that results using this version are not always fruitful.

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Doug Adams
posted: May 3, 2007
total downloads: 941
zip download size: 195.9K

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Find Album Artwork with Google v2.5

Performs a Google image search using an Album's name with the hope of finding the according album artwork. For iTunes 4 or better.

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Brett OConnor
latest version posted: April 30, 2007
latest version downloads: 43284 | total downloads: 102241
zip download size: 50.4K

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Scour Web Page for Media v0.5

This script will examine the current web page in Safari for your choice of media file links (currently mp3, aac, and pdf files) and allow you to select any found files to download and then add them to iTunes. Options include selecting download location, adding to a particular iTunes playlist, and the ability to delete the original files after adding to iTunes. Be sure to read the Read Me.

DISCLAIMER: This script is not intended to be used to download copyrighted material. Please bear that in mind.

Info:

build type: Plain AppleScript
written by Doug Adams
posted: March 23, 2007
total downloads: 1799
zip download size: 184.2K

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