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Managing Track Info

December 9 2025 - 4:36 pm

UPDATED: No Lyrics to Playlist v3.2

This script will scan the Music library or a selected playlist for tracks whose "Custom Lyrics" tags are blank and copy them to a new discrete playlist. Can also toggle to search only for tracks with lyrics.

(Please Note: The script can only discover tracks with "Custom Lyrics" provided by the user. There is no accounting for lyrics made available via Apple Music or iCloud/Sync Library. That data is inaccessible.)

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26 Tahoe

More information for No Lyrics to Playlist v3.2 and download link is here.

December 7 2025 - 8:09 pm

NEW: Albumizer v1.0

This script will renumber the track number tag of the selected tracks incrementally in their play order, as well as providing track count, disc number and disc count tags and, optionally, additional album-oriented tags.

Also see the simpler Albumize Selection or the more general Increment Number Tags.

Latest version:

  • Initial release

More information for Albumizer v1.0 and download link is here.

November 22 2025 - 1:42 pm

NEW: Show Me the Track Info v1.0

You ever need to look at a track's Info panel and go hip-hopping through the panels to see what you need to know? You ever have to do this for a lot of tracks?

Show Me the Track Info will display track info from the playing or selected track in a floating window that can be configured to show information in a user-configured order. Eight sections within the window can be drag-arranged by their hierarchical 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 panel.

Latest version:

  • Initial release

More information for Show Me the Track Info v1.0 and download link is here.

November 9 2025 - 5:04 pm

UPDATED: De-Genre v6.0

This script re-assigns the tracks of selected Genres to another Genre, ostensibly so that the original--and consequently any un-assigned-Genres--disappear from the Music app's Genre pop-up list. Of course, it can also be used simply to batch-edit Genres without having to assemble the tracks first.

As you may know, you can make superfluous Custom Genres vanish from the Genre pop-up list simply by eliminating a reference to them in your tracks; when no tracks are assigned to a particular Genre, that Genre will be dropped. (Note however that Music's original Genre names cannot be removed this way; only those accumulated from other sources or created by you.)

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
  • Adds sorting options
  • Fixes toggle-size issue

More information for De-Genre v6.0 and download link is here.

November 7 2025 - 12:39 pm

UPDATED: Make Tags All Caps v2.6

This script will change the text in your choice of the Title, Artist/Director, Show, Album, Album Artist, Genre, Comments, Composer and/or Lyrics tags of the selected tracks in the Music or TV app to ALL CAPS.

"I got a request from a DJ'ing Correspondent who had been manually changing some of his tags to all caps so they'd be easier to read on the decks under dim dance floor lights...." (more)

Latest version:

  • Adds Album Artist and Custom Lyrics to choices
  • v2.5 Oct. 22, 2025
  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe and general maintenance

More information for Make Tags All Caps v2.6 and download link is here.

October 22 2025 - 7:40 pm

UPDATED: Make Tags All Caps v2.5

This script will change the text in your choice of the Title, Artist/Director, Show, Album, Comments, Composer and/or Genre tags of the selected tracks in the Music or TV app to ALL CAPS.

"I got a request from a DJ'ing Correspondent who had been manually changing some of his tags to all caps so they'd be easier to read on the decks under dim dance floor lights. (Are they still called "decks"?)..." (more)

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe and general maintenance

More information for Make Tags All Caps v2.5 and download link is here.

October 22 2025 - 6:26 pm

UPDATED: Delete Lyrics v3.2

This script will delete the Custom Lyrics—i.e., lyrics text entered by the user—from the selected tracks. Assign it a keyboard shortcut.

Does not affect Lyrics provided by Apple Music; this data is inaccessible.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
  • Adds stays-open-to-select-again feature

More information for Delete Lyrics v3.2 and download link is here.

October 21 2025 - 2:17 pm

UPDATED: Reset Tracks v1.2

The Music.app has a "Reset" button in the Details panel of each track's Get Info window which will re-initialize some track properties such as Plays and Skips. This script allows the user to choose which of several additional Music.app tags to reset to initialized states, which can be selectively more or less thorough than the Music.app's Reset action. Also see the slightly more aggressive Reset Plays.

Sync library users should note Apple's "Bug-or-Feature" whereby changes to these tags don't always proliferate correctly, if at all.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
  • Updated nomenclature

More information for Reset Tracks v1.2 and download link is here.

October 19 2025 - 5:40 pm

UPDATED: Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.4

This script will remove any number of extra space characters at the beginning and ending of chosen tags (Title, Artist/Director, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Genre, Grouping, Movement, Work and Show) in the selected tracks.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.4 and download link is here.

October 17 2025 - 12:32 pm

UPDATED: Album Rating Reset v5.5

This script will allow you to batch set or clear the Album Rating and/or Album Favorite/Suggest Less for the albums of the selected tracks or the albums associated with the tracks in a selected playlist (note that only a single track from any album need be selected in order to change the album rating or favorited of the entire album). Handy for clearing batches of albums of their user-set album ratings, or re-rating batches of albums.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
  • "Stop" feature removed due to OS regression; it may re-appear in future

More information for Album Rating Reset v5.5 and download link is here.

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