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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.
UPDATED: Yer Stack v1.1
My Stack Alt is looking a little pale there at 5:12, but there's plenty of sides for the rest of the afternoon. In Hemiphonic Mode, of course.
Yer Stack v1.1 and also the others.
UPDATED: Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. MP3, AAC and ALAC audio files have the capability to store artwork image data internally as metadata, thus allowing artwork to "travel" with a file. This applet will examine the files of the selected tracks (or tracks in the selected playlist) for artwork metadata. Eligible audio tracks whose files are capable of embedding image data but do not contain artwork metadata will be copied to a new discrete Results playlist.
Latest version:
- Re-oriented scan settings
- Accomodations for macOS 26 Tahoe
More information for Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Coverscope v2.8
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. This applet will show both the assigned track artwork and the local file's metadata artwork (if any exists) for the selected track. The Track entry artwork well supports copy, paste and drags. Pasting or dragging image data immediately applies the image to the selected track's artwork and attempts to embed it. Additional tools can Embed or Apply artwork between track and file.
Latest version:
- Accommodations and adjustments for macOS 26 Tahoe
More information for Coverscope v2.8 and download link is here.
NEW: Elevendy
The manic episode I've been experiencing lately whereby I am compelled to build tinker-toy audio players has not yet subsided. My story is that once I figured out how simple it is to incorporate the AVAudioPlayer framework into an AppleScript app, I can't stop making music boxes. I just threw another one on to the pile.
Elevendy plays 11 random songs in a row that are between the lengths of 1:30 and 2:40. Then, if you want, it will do it again with a different (maybe) random 11 tracks. And so on.
Because why not, that's why.
NEW: Who Da Album Artist v1.0
As you likely know, individual music tracks can each have their own individual artist tag. But there are situations when a single mega-artist is handy-like-a-handle for an album of tracks. Like "Various Artists" for compilation albums or "Ray Charles" if it's Ray with different artists on each track. That's why our Founding Fathers created the album artist tag.
Every discreet album in your collection should have an associated "album artist". It's what you'd see as the display artist on the cover or spine of a physical album, for example. Here in the digital future, where albums have been disintegrated into tracks, there is no "album"; the "album" information is born by the tracks it "contains" so the tracks can be re-integrated as an "album" in yer third-party devices there. Thus, the album artist tag is more like an "album tag", rather than a "track tag". Each track of an album should have the same text in its album artist tag. In fact, having mixed text in an album's tracks' album artist tags completely neutralizes the purpose of the mononymnic album artist tag. And some screwing up your music library royally is also nominally possible.
I thought I had album artist configurations handily and dandily in hand over the years. So I was recently in mid-to-high dudgeon after noticing a bunch of albums whose tracks had incorrect or inconsistent or missing album artist tags. CHAAAArrrristopher Columbus! Like I really wanna spend a lot of time going through my library looking for albums with problem album artist tags. So instead I spent what probably would have been the same amount of time making an app that would do the album artist wrangling for me.
Who Da Album Artist will scan your Music library and if it finds any album whose tracks' album artist tags are missing or inconsistent (more than one per album, for example), will give you the opportunity to enter the appropriate album artist and sort album artist tags.
Latest version:
- Initial release
More information for Who Da Album Artist v1.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v1.3
This applet will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, edit, search 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.
Latest version:
- UI adjustments and detailing; minimal Liquid Glass added
- Accepts Open'd and drag-and-dropped Playlist XMLs
- Description field displays popover for longer text
- Table displays Normalization value if present
- Adds "Send to Music app" and "Reveal Default Folder" buttons in main window
- Adds File and Remote Track Type counts to header display
- Handles :00.0 length URL entries properly
- Fixed issue with Filter
Frankly, I would rarely export a playlist as an XML file because traveling to the command to do it—buried in the Music app's File menu—always seemed like a long arduous journey for my mouse. That all changed when I assigned the keyboard shortcut Command-E to the File -> Library -> Export Playlist... menu command. Then I couldn't stop exporting playlists.
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NEW: Block Party Weekend
We used to get a lot of beer ad money by staging "Double Shot Weekends" and bonus'ing the Beer Guys weekend sponsorships. As seemingly popular as "Double Shot Tuesdays" and Three-Fer Thursdays" may have been, normal listeners hate more than one song by an artist. Major tune-out. But the hardcore P1's, they love that stuff. Suckers. That's how we kept them listening over the weekend, which is not a great radio listening time period. And the Beer Guys owned the weekend. Everybody's happy.
Anyway. How'd you like a batch of two-fers for old times' sake?
Block Party Weekend is a stand-alone music player that can devise and play artist blocks of various size and criteria.
If you have enough variety in your music library, Block Party Weekend will likely play continuously for longer than any weekend.
Block Party Weekend is fully-featured donationware for macOS 26/Tahoe and later only.
