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Managing Track Info

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.

October 13 2025 - 3:03 pm

UPDATED: Remove n Characters From Front or Back v7.3

This script will delete a specified number of characters from either the beginning or the ending of the Title, Album, Album Artist, Artist/Director, Category, Comments, Composer, Episode ID, Grouping, Show (or their "Sort" siblings), Movement or Work tag of each selected track. For example, delete the initial digits and the space from "01 First Track", "02 Second Track", and so on.

This app is free to try full-featured in Demo Mode, with the exception that only up to five tracks can be processed per launch. You can purchase a code for $1.99 which will remove this restriction. Launch the app and click "Register..." in the its File menu to make an in-app purchase.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for Remove n Characters From Front or Back v7.3 and download link is here.

October 13 2025 - 2:31 pm

UPDATED: Insert Text into Tag v1.4

This script will insert the same user-entered text at a specific position in the designated tag of each selected track.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for Insert Text into Tag v1.4 and download link is here.

October 11 2025 - 3:10 pm

UPDATED: Append to Selected Tag v6.4

Append the same user-entered text to the beginning or ending of the existing text in the chosen tag--Title, Artist (Director), Album Artist, Album, Composer, Comments, Genre, Grouping, Show (or their Sort siblings), Work or Movement--in each selected track.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for Append to Selected Tag v6.4 and download link is here.

October 10 2025 - 12:01 pm

UPDATED: CD-Text to CD Info v6.4

This applet will attempt to extract the CD-Text information from the selected audio CD in the Music app and apply it to the CD's disc and track tags.

Some commercial CDs and commercial CD burning software (including the Music app) can use CD-Text as a method of including text data on an audio CD. This data can include Artist (Performer), Album, Composer, Track Title, and Genre info. See the Read Me for more information.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for CD-Text to CD Info v6.4 and download link is here.

October 10 2025 - 11:03 am

UPDATED: This Tag That Tag v6.4

This applet will assist with swapping, copying, and appending data between two user-chosen tags in selected tracks or tracks in the selected playlist:

Swap - swap data between tags, ex: ARTIST<->COMPOSER
Copy - copy data from one to another tag, ex: ARTIST->COMPOSER ARTIST
Append - append data from one tag to the end of another, ex: ARTIST->COMPOSER - ARTIST
Prepend - append data from one tag to the beginning of another, ex: ARTIST->ARTIST - COMPOSER

The latter three actions also provide an option to delete the info from the first tag after the copy. Read Me explains all.

This app is free to try full-featured in Demo Mode. In Demo Mode it will only process 12 tracks per launch. If you like it you can purchase a code for $1.99 which will unlock the 12-track restriction. Launch the app and click "Register..." in its File menu to make an in-app purchase.

Latest version:

  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe

More information for This Tag That Tag v6.4 and download link is here.

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