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Managing Track Info

December 26 2022 - 2:07 pm

UPDATED: Increment Number Tags v4.1

This script will incrementally number your choice of the Track Number, Movement Number, Episode Number, Episode ID tags, and track Name prefix of the selected tracks. Additionally, a Track Count, Disc Number/Count and/or Movement Count can be applied to each track, Episode ID can be configured with additional text incorporating the number, and zero-padding up to five digits can be applied. (The selected tracks must be sorted by ascending Play Order for accurate results.)

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and minor performance fixes
  • Accommodations for macOS 13 Ventura

More information for Increment Number Tags v4.1 and download link is here.

November 5 2022 - 1:43 pm

NEW: Reset Tracks v1.0

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.

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

Latest version:

  • Initial release

More information for Reset Tracks v1.0 and download link is here.

September 3 2022 - 7:35 pm

UPDATED: Delete Lyrics v3.0

This script will delete the lyrics from just the selected tracks or every track of the Music library. Does not affect Lyrics provided by Apple; this data is inaccessible.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance update
  • Universal Binary

More information for Delete Lyrics v3.0 and download link is here.

March 11 2022 - 4:52 pm

UPDATED: Insert Text into Tag v1.0

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

Latest version:

  • Initial release

More information for Insert Text into Tag v1.0 and download link is here.

February 12 2022 - 1:20 pm

UPDATED: Reverse Artist Last, First v2.0

This script will juxtapose the text on either side of ", " in the selected tracks' artist and composer tags to restore formats, e.g:

"Ellington, Duke" becomes "Duke Ellington"
"Russell, Pee Wee" becomes "Pee Wee Russell"
"Johnson, James P." becomes "James P. Johnson"
"King, B.B." becomes "B.B. King"

Also see Artist to Last-First.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Reverse Artist Last, First v2.0 and download link is here.

February 5 2022 - 2:15 pm

UPDATED: Player Position to Start or Stop v3.1

Sets the Start or Stop time of the currently paused or playing track to the time of the current player position.

Also see Copy From Start to Stop and Reset Tracks Start-Stop.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Player Position to Start or Stop v3.1 and download link is here.

February 4 2022 - 3:12 pm

UPDATED: Copy Rating Stars to Other Tag v2.1

This script will convert the rating value (0-100) of a track to the appropriate number of stars as Unicode text and copy that text to the Composer, Grouping or Comments tag, with additional options to copy to the start or end of extant Comments text.
This starred text will "travel" with the audio file, unlike the actual rating value, whereby it may display in other apps.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Copy Rating Stars to Other Tag v2.1 and download link is here.

February 1 2022 - 1:14 pm

UPDATED: Albumize Selection v4.1

This script re-numbers the track number and track count tags of each track in a selection of tracks to its current Play Order and, optionally, applies a user-entered Album Name for every track.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Albumize Selection v4.1 and download link is here.

February 1 2022 - 1:13 pm

UPDATED: Add or Subtract Play Count v3.1

Add or subtract a user-entered number from the current Plays of each selected track. If the resulting Plays is 0 then the track's Last Played date will be erased--as if it had never been played.

Also see New Play Count and New Last Played Date.

Note that Cloud Music/iTunes Match users should be aware of a potential bug.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Add or Subtract Play Count v3.1 and download link is here.

February 1 2022 - 12:48 pm

UPDATED: Reset Tracks Start-Stop v3.1

This script will reset the Start and (optionally) the Stop Time of the selected tracks--or all the tracks of the selected playlist--to "0:00" and (optionally) their entire duration, respectively. You may want to use this to restore a track's default duration if one or both of the Start and Stop Times had previously been user-changed via the track's Get Info > Options panel.

Latest version:

  • Maintenance and modernization update

More information for Reset Tracks Start-Stop v3.1 and download link is here.

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