UPDATED: No Lyrics to Playlist v3.3

This applet 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 Cloud/Sync Library. That data is inaccessible.)

Latest version:

• UI and layout updates for macOS 26 and later
• Improved selection logic
• Adds Command-. to cancel
• Maintenance
• Icon and docs update

More information for No Lyrics to Playlist v3.3 and download link is here.

NEW: Selected Tags to Lyrics v2.0

iPhone and iPad can display the lyrics tag full screen, which can allow for more tag information to be visible. This applet will copy the contents of selected tags in the Music app to the lyrics tag of each selected track as “Custom Lyrics”. Each tag will be labeled and listed vertically. The order of tag placement can be arranged by dragging the listed tag rows. Unneeded tags can be ignored. Then it’s just a matter of re-sync’ing the tracks to the device.

Latest version:

• Initial re-release for the Music app

More information for Selected Tags to Lyrics v2.0 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Remove n Characters From Front or Back v8.0

This script will delete a specified number of characters from either the beginning or the ending of the Title, Album, Album Artist, Artist, Category, Comments, Composer, Grouping,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.

Latest version:

• UI and layout updates
• Removes support for TV app
• Preview displays to-be-removed text in strikethrough
• Icon and docs updat

More information for Remove n Characters From Front or Back v8.0 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Search-Replace Tag Text v8.0

Performs a search-and-replace on the text in your choice of track tags in the Music or TV app (Title, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Comments, Genre, Grouping, 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:

• UI updates for macOS 26 and later
• Removes support for TV app
• Icon and docs update

More information for Search-Replace Tag Text v8.0 and download link is here.

UPDATED: This Tag That Tag v7.0

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.

Latest version:

• UI updates for macOS 26 Tahoe and later
• Drops support for TV app
• Icon and docs updated

More information for This Tag That Tag v7.0 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Append to Selected Tag v6.5

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

Latest version:

• UI and layout updates
• Removes support for TV app

More information for Append to Selected Tag v6.5 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Insert Text into Tag v1.5

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

Latest version:

• UI and layout updates
• Adds confirmation panel
• Additional keyboard shortcuts
• Removes support for TV app
• Icon and docs updates

More information for Insert Text into Tag v1.5 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.5

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

Latest version:

• UI and layout updates
• Fixed progress miscount
• Adds Comments tag
• Removes support for TV app

More information for Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.5 and download link is here.

UPDATED: Album Rating Reset v5.6

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:

• UI updates
• Fixes problem with Settings panel
• Drops support for half-stars

More information for Album Rating Reset v5.6 and download link is here.