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UPDATED: Search-Replace Tag Text v6.3
For macOS 10.15 and later only. Performs a search-and-replace on the text in your choice of track tags in the Music or TV app (Song Name/Title, Artist/Director, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Comments, Genre, Grouping, Show, Movement or Work) in the selected tracks or all the tracks in the selected Playlist. Features case sensitivity and whole word match options and "Test run" preview.
Latest version:
- Now works with the TV app -- see the Read me for installation info
- Other minor performance and logistics accommodations
More information for Search-Replace Tag Text v6.3 and download link is here.
A Remedy for Missing Display Artwork
There still appears to be an artwork issue for some Music app users. Several Correspondents report that they know they have artwork for a track, or at least are pretty sure that they did prior to updating to macOS 10.15 and the Music app. Some have been able to confirm that a track's file contains image metadata (see Show Me The Metadata). Yet no artwork is displayed for the track in the Music app.
Artwork issues don't fluster me so I hadn't investigated this. But it turns out that I also have some tracks that, despite having files with image metadata, aren't displaying artwork. Not a lot of them and not in every display context (for example, if only one track from an album had artwork, it might display in Album view, and so on). But they were quite noticeable once I started looking for them. A playlist displayed in Playlist View is probably the easiest way to eyeball for them
I tried using the Music app's AppleScript refresh command, which is meant to grab metadata from a track's file, but perhaps it doesn't apply to the image metadata. Anyway, it didn't work to refresh the artwork.
Then I tried using Coverscope, which is an applet that can embed track entry artwork to the track's file or apply the file's image metadata as the track's artwork. ("Criss-cross!") And it worked!
Unfortunately, in this case, Coverscope only works on one track at a time. It wasn't built for batch operations.
So: Apply Embedded Artwork is a script applet I made to refresh a track entry's artwork from the image data already embedded in its file's metadata—image data that is apparently ignored by the Music app.
It can be run on any number of tracks; if a selected track has no local file or already has assigned artwork then it will simply be ignored. If its local file contains image metadata then it will be applied as the track's album artwork.
Apply Embedded Artwork is free to use with donation nag. More information and download is available here.
(My thanks to Correspondent Zak Z. who also confirmed the Coverscope results and beta-tested the remedy.)
UPDATED: Super Remove Dead Tracks v5.3
For macOS 10.15 Catalina or later. Scans the Music or TV app for tracks whose files are inaccessible or no longer available (so-called "dead" tracks). Outputs a tab-delimited text log listing the tracks by Artist, Name, Album and last known file location. The registered version will delete the tracks.
Also see List MIAs and Music Folder Files Not Added.
Latest version:
- Drops 10-day trial; tracks are deleted using registered versions only
- Minor logistic changes
More information for Super Remove Dead Tracks v5.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Random Full Albums to Playlist v3.1
For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script will assemble a user-set number of randomly selected full albums to a playlist. The "Some Random Albums" playlist will be re-created on successive launches unless you choose to append additional random albums to the existing "Some Random Albums" playlist. (A "full album" is a set of tracks with the same album name, track count and disc number and where the number of these tracks is equal to the common track count; it will not select all the disks in a multi-disk collection, just one of them; accurate tags are a must!)
Assign it a keyboard shortcut.
Also see Play Random Album.
Latest version:
- Fixes odd regression whereby a new entered number might cause an error and only "Cancel" will allow the script to proceed
- Other monor tweaks
- v3.0 (Feb 17, 2020):
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Performance and security enhancementsx
More information for Random Full Albums to Playlist v3.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Random Full Albums to Playlist v3.0
For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script will assemble a user-set number of randomly selected full albums to a playlist. The "Some Random Albums" playlist will be re-created on successive launches unless you choose to append additional random albums to the existing "Some Random Albums" playlist. (A "full album" is a set of tracks with the same album name, track count and disc number and where the number of these tracks is equal to the common track count; it will not select all the disks in a multi-disk collection, just one of them; accurate tags are a must!)
Assign it a keyboard shortcut.
Also see Play Random Album.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Performance and security enhancements
More information for Random Full Albums to Playlist v3.0 and download link is here.
NEW: Divvy Up A Playlist v2.0
For macOS 10.15 and later. This script will copy the tracks of a selected user-created playlist to a series of new, smaller playlists each set to a maximum time length and each named with a user-supplied base name and number suffix incremented sequentially. Additionally, the new playlists can all be moved to a new Playlist Folder. Tracks can be distributed in Playlist Order, Current Sorted Order or Randomized.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Adds ability to use Play Order, Sorted Order or Random Order
- Performance and security enhancements
More information for Divvy Up A Playlist v2.0 and download link is here.
NEW: Make Playlists By Tag v3.0
For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This applet will create new Music track playlists based on each selected entry of a specified tag. That is, create individual playlists for each Artist, Album Artist, Album, Composer (or their "Sort" siblings), Genre, or Year.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Performance and security enhancements
More information for Make Playlists By Tag v3.0 and download link is here.
NEW: Track CPR v3.0
For macOS 10.15 and later only. This script will assist with re-associating replacement files with dead tracks. The Music app can perform this task, too, but only one track at a time.
The process takes 3 steps:
- The script finds and lists the "dead" tracks in the Music library
- User drag-and-drops potential replacement files to the window; a viable replacement file is one whose name, album and artist metadata matches a dead track's
- Re-associate viable replacement files with their matched track entries
The Read Me contains additional important details and cautions.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Removes "Choose Files" and replaces with drag-and-drop
- Performance and security enhancements
More information for Track CPR v3.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: List MIAs v5.5
For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This applet checks your Music or TV library for missing and presumed dead tracks--those tracks that have become disassociated from their file and which are listed with a "!"--and can delete them from the app or create a text file listing these tracks by last known File Path, Song Name, Artist and Album, which you can view using TextEdit.
Also see Super Remove Dead Tracks and Media Folder Files Not Added.
Free to use in Demo Mode: While in Demo Mode, dead tracks will be displayed and can be exported as a list to a text file. Delete from Music/TV and other features will be disabled.
To purchase a registration code and remove these restrictions, download and launch the app. Click "Register..." in its File menu and follow the prompts to purchase a code for $2.99. When your payment is processed, you will be emailed a registration code that will unlock the Demo Mode restrictions.
Latest version:
- Minor adjustments to better accommodate the Music and TV apps
- Performance enhancements
- v5.4 (November, 2019):
- Adds support for the TV app - install in TV's Scripts folder
More information for List MIAs v5.5 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Make A Text List v6.1
For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script can assemble a list of tag information about the selected tracks (or tracks in the selected playlist) using a configurable pattern substitution string and provides the ability to export this formatted text to the clipboard, a text file or the Print Dialog.
Latest version:
- Adds support for the Music app
- Adds "Insert Only TABs" option to Token Field's Action Menu
- Adds "Show [TAB] instead of real tab" option to accessory controls
- Fixes issue when encountering tracks without location property
- Fixes issue with date formatting
- Performance enhancements
More information for Make A Text List v6.1 and download link is here.
