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UPDATED: Lyrics Tag Viewer v1.2
View and edit a selected track's Custom Lyrics tag in a non-modal window, which, unlike a track's Info panel, will not block keyboard and mouse activity in the Music app's interface.
Whereas the Comments tag can only accept about 250 text characters, the "Custom Lyrics" tag can hold a lot of text. And I mean a lot of text. Custom Lyrics text will also get written to a track's file as metadata. So it's an ideal place to store information about an album. Especially if you're not interested in storing lyrics there.
I got in the habit of using the Lyrics tag of the first track of an album to store liner-note-caliber text snippets about the album. Or actual liner notes if they are available. The screenshot above shows some text I copied from the album's Wikipedia entry. In any case, I know that if an album has any info it'll be in track 1's Lyrics.
But a track's Show Info displays a modal window which prevents doing anything else with the Music app while it's open. So I use Lyrics Tag Viewer to display the lyrics or liner notes or what have you while an album is playing but without blocking access to Music.
Latest version:
- Minor UI updates and maintenance
More information for Lyrics Tag Viewer v1.2 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v2.1
The original AppleScript version of Playlist XML Librarian had a search function but I didn't like it much. So I decided not to include it in the v2.0 rebuild until I figured out a better way to do it. Well, I went ahead and did that for v2.1.
Playlist XML Librarian v2.1 will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, edit 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 can display and play a single selected local Playlist XML file drag-and-dropped or chosen. For handling exported library XML files, see Library XML Track Viewer
Latest version:
- Adds search feature; searches XML collection for playlist XMLs with track entries whose Title, Artist, Album or Composer tag matches entered search text.
- v2.0 (jun 3 2026):
- Outgrew AppleScript, is now a full-fledged Xcode app
- Overall speed boost
- Checks each XML file for appearance in the Music app as status
- Sort playlist XML list by name, date, track count, playlist kind and status
- Additional Settings to configure status indexing and display
- Description overspill appears in popover
- Toggle playlist info visible
More information for Playlist XML Librarian v2.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: File Renamer v5.3
Here's a utility that's been waiting for a few fixes and I finally got around to them.
File Renamer will rename the files of the selected tracks (or the files of the tracks in the selected playlist) using a substitution pattern that you formulate from the tracks' tag data. Optionally, export a copy of the files to a chosen location and rename the files in that location.
Works optimally for "in place" option with Music app's "Keep Media folder organized" un-checked.
Latest version:
- Fixed some regression issues impeding operation
- Minor UI adjustments
More information for File Renamer v5.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Quick Convert v5.8
Convert all or just the selected tracks of the selected Playlist using your choice of available encoders, restoring your Settings-set encoder afterwards.
Additionally, you can:
- Choose to delete and/or Trash the original tracks and/or files
- Copy all converted tracks to a playlist
Latest version:
- Minor UI updates
More information for Quick Convert v5.8 and download link is here.
UPDATED: List MIAs v6.6
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. This applet checks your Media 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 Music app or create a text file listing these tracks by last known File Path, Title, Artist and Album, which you can view using TextEdit.
Also see Super Remove Dead Tracks and Media Folder Files Not Added.
Latest version:
- General maintenance, UI update
- Fixes unusual issue with locating track for reveal
More information for List MIAs v6.6 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Needle Drop v7.8
Needle Drop plays each track in the selected Music playlist for a set time interval optionally starting at a set number of seconds into each track, beginning with the selected track. Handy for 'scoping playlists.
Needle Drop will work best on tracks that have local files. Un-cached tracks streamed from the cloud may upset timing while audio is being downloaded.
Latest version:
- Fixed issue causing crash on engage
- Updates UI Scripting to correct an issue that may have prevented operation
- General maintenance
More information for Needle Drop v7.8 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v2.0
I've suspected for years that there would come a time when I'd want one of my AppleScript dinguses to grow up into an Xcode app. You can only do so much with a single thread. I've been using Playlist XML Librarian pretty regularly and the AppleScript incarnation just wasn't able to gimme what I need.
Playlist XML Librarian v2.0 will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, edit 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 can display and play a single selected local Playlist XML file drag-and-dropped or chosen.
Latest version:
- Outgrew AppleScript, is now a full-fledged Xcode app
- Overall speed boost
- Checks each XML file for appearance in the Music app as status
- Sort playlist XML list by name, date, track count, playlist kind and status
- Additional Settings to configure status indexing and display
- Description overspill appears in popover
- Toggle playlist info visible
More information for Playlist XML Librarian v2.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove From Other Playlists v3.0
A Correspondent recently divulged to me that his Music library contains over 5K Smart playlists. I just had to tell somebody.
It reminds me of an old Punch cartoon showing a rather ragged gentleman with a face full of bandaids and a very shabby looking growth of beard sitting at a table writing a letter: "Dear Sirs: I have used the same razor blade daily for seven months. Is this some kind of record?"
Anyway. It's good to keep yer library nice 'n' neat in my opinion. You can start with this:
Remove From Other Playlists will load, list and examine a selection of tracks from a selected playlist in the Music app and then display the other playlists that also contain them. The tracks can then be batch-removed from any one or more of these other playlists.
Latest version:
- Initial re-release
More information for Remove From Other Playlists v3.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Show Me the Track Info v1.1
This script will display track info from the playing or selected track in a floating window that can be configured to show the information in a user-configured order. Eight sections within the window can be drag-arranged into their order of importance. The window can then re-sized to only display as much of the information as is necessary. Handy for quickly surveying tracks without having to click-click-click for the Music app's "Info Window".
Latest version:
- Adds guides to sections
- Minor UI adjustments
- Improved info gathering
- Setting to enable/disable clickable section to reveal file
More information for Show Me the Track Info v1.1 and download link is here.
Thanks, macOS 26.5
They fixed the thing whereby you try to click to select text on either side of a colon ("openThisFile:sender") and it selects the whole thing rather than the bit you wanted. Life is fresh and wonderous again.
