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August 14 2026 - 11:27 am

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.

Album Rating Reset in action

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.

August 14 2026 - 11:26 am

UPDATED: Apply Embedded Artwork v3.0

This script will examine each selected track’s local file for image metadata and apply it as the track’s album artwork.

Latest version:

  • UI adjustments for macOS 27
  • Displays operative artwork when available
  • Maintenance and regression removals

More information for Apply Embedded Artwork v3.0 and download link is here.

August 14 2026 - 11:25 am

UPDATED: Re-Embed Artwork v4.0

This applet will export then re-import the artwork data of the selected tracks obliging the Music app to embed the artwork in the track’s file’s meta-data.

Latest version:

  • Remains open after each selected track batch is processed
  • UI adjustments for macOS 27

More information for Re-Embed Artwork v4.0 and download link is here.

August 14 2026 - 11:25 am

UPDATED: Restore Artwork from Album Folder v5.0

This applet will look for an image file in the parent folder of each selected track’s file–presumably its Album folder into which you have previously placed an image file of some sort–and apply the data from that image file as artwork for the track.

Also see Save Album Art to Album Folder and Save Album Art as folder.jpg which assist with exporting album artwork as image files.

Latest version:

  • Remains open after each selected track batch is processed
  • Displays operative artwork when available
  • UI adjustments for macOS 27

More information for Restore Artwork from Album Folder v5.0 and download link is here.

August 14 2026 - 11:24 am

UPDATED: Assimilate View Options v6.4

This applet re-creates each selected playlist so its Songs View column settings (visible columns) are the same as the main “Songs” library.

Works with user-created regular playlists only.

Assimilate View Options in action

Latest version:

  • Fixes issue with empty description tag returning missing value
  • Minor maintenance

More information for Assimilate View Options v6.4 and download link is here.

August 14 2026 - 11:22 am

UPDATED: Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks v6.9

This applet will copy specific tag data from one set of selected tracks to a second set of selected tracks. You can copy any combination of Checkmark, Song Title, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Year, Disc and Track, Composer, Grouping, Work, Movement, BPM, Comments, Lyrics, Rating, Favorite/Suggest Less, Plays/Skips, Artwork and Compilation.

Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks in action

Latest version:

  • UI update for macOS 26
  • Fixed text animation issue
  • Maintenance and regression removal

More information for Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks v6.9 and download link is here.

July 30 2026 - 2:54 pm

UPDATED: Playlist Manager v5.1

The Music app only allows one playlist to be selected at a time. I mean, it makes sense. Select two arbitrary playlists and what would be displayed in the browser window? I’ll bet no one knows. I think it would be Messy. That’s my guess.

Playlist Manager v5.1 can perform common useful tasks on a multiple selection of playlists: playlist title renaming (add text, remove text, search and replace text, text transforms), change View, duplicate, delete, export, move to Playlist Folder, merge playlists and remove track copies.

Playlist Manager in action

Latest version:

  • Minor UI update
  • Maintenance
  • Icon and docs update

More information for Playlist Manager v5.1 and download link is here.

July 28 2026 - 3:54 pm

UPDATED: Compare Two Playlists v5.3

Quickly compares the contents of any two playlists and displays the tracks that are common to both or the tracks in one playlist not contained by the other. Has tools to copy or move tracks from one playlist to another or delete common tracks from one or the other playlist.

Compare Two Playlists in action

Latest version:

  • Fixed a modern problem indexing playlists
  • Minor UI update

More information for Compare Two Playlists v5.3 and download link is here.

July 25 2026 - 10:20 am

UPDATED: Remove Duplicate Tracks from Playlist v2.1

Tracks may have been dragged/added/copied to a user playlist two or more times—defying the Music app’s caution about adding them—and now each of them appears multiple times in the playlist. This script will remove all but one of these kind of duplicate tracks from a selected playlist. (This does not have anything to do with duplicate files that each have an individual track entry in the Music library.)

Also see Remove From Other Playlists which does what it says.

Remove Duplicate Tracks from Playlist in action

Latest version:

  • UI rebuild
  • Maintenance and minor fixes

More information for Remove Duplicate Tracks from Playlist v2.1 and download link is here.

July 24 2026 - 9:27 am

UPDATED: Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.3

This applet will copy the selected tracks to one or more chosen playlists–or move them, after which they will be removed from the source playlist (if possible; tracks cannot be removed from dynamically populated playlists).

Also see Remove From Other Playlists.

Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists in action

Latest version:

  • Fixed regressions
  • UI rebuild
  • Minor maintenance

More information for Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.3 and download link is here.

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