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December 5 2025 - 12:11 pm

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:

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