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November 25 2025 - 5:41 pm

Bug or Feature: No Shortcut to Delete a Playlist

Now one of the Things a Music app playlist doesn't do lately is obey a Delete keypress. Used to be a Delete or Command-Delete or something like that would delete the selected playlist. Magical. Nowadays, we have to right-click on it for the contextual menu and choose "Delete From Library"—which is wicked loaded title for a playlist contextual menu item lemma tell you just sayin'. So what a guy like me does is make a piddly little AppleScript:

tell application "Music"

tell (get view of front browser window)

if special kind of it is none then

try

delete it

end try

end if

end tell

end tell

Click the script icon above to open this script in your Script Editor, save it with the File Format of "Script" named "Delete Selected Playlist" in your ~/Library/Music/Scripts/ folder.

And then you just know I'm going to tell you to assign it a Shift-Command-D shortcut.

There's also no "Select None" in any Edit menus anywhere. But I digress.

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