Music app
UPDATED: Block Party! v5.0
For macOS 11 and later only. Create a "Block Party!" playlist containing random Artists and a specific number of their randomly selected songs arranged in a row ("two-fers", "three-fers", and so on). You can restrict the size of the "Block Party!" playlist by Number of Artists or Duration in hours. Additionally, you can choose to use a particular Playlist as the source of tracks and include/exclude specific Genres.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Block Party! v5.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Re-Apply Downsized Artwork v5.0
For macOS 11 and later only. This applet will examine the artwork of each selected track (or tracks in the selected playlist) and if greater than a user-set resolution (n x n pixels) will downscale the image to that resolution. Artwork already at the set resolution or smaller will not be affected. Includes options to pad image to make square, preserve extant track artworks, adjust preview proportionally and export displayed artwork to disk.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
- Re-designed main window UI
- Adds "Resize Window to Image" frame control
More information for Re-Apply Downsized Artwork v5.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Convert and Export v6.0
For macOS 10.15 and later only. This script converts the files of the selected tracks in the Music app using an encoder chosen on-the-fly (restoring your Preferences-set encoder afterwards). The newly converted files are then moved to a new location of your choice, and their tracks removed from Music. The read me doc contains additional important information.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Convert and Export v6.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Random Full Albums to Playlist v4.1
For macOS 11 and later only. This script will assemble a user-set number of randomly selected full albums to a playlist. The "Some Random Albums" playlist will be re-created on successive launches unless you choose to append additional random albums to the existing "Some Random Albums" playlist. (A "full album" is a set of tracks with the same album name, track count and disc number and where the number of these tracks is equal to the common track count; it will not select all the disks in a multi-disk collection, just one of them; accurate tags are a must!)
Assign it a keyboard shortcut.
Also see Play Random Album.
Latest version:
- Fixes a v4.0 regression affecting donation verification
- v4.0 (August 30, 2021):
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
- Performance and UI enhancements
More information for Random Full Albums to Playlist v4.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Super Remove Dead Tracks v6.0
For macOS 11 and later only. Scans the Music or TV app for tracks whose files are inaccessible or no longer available (so-called "dead" tracks). Outputs a tab-delimited text log listing the tracks by Artist, Name, Album and last known file location. The registered version will delete the tracks.
Also see List MIAs and Media Folder Files Not Added.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Super Remove Dead Tracks v6.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Re-Embed Artwork v3.3
For macOS 11 and later only. This script 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:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Re-Embed Artwork v3.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Assimilate View Options v6.1
For macOS 11 and later only. This script 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. Please read the accompanying Read Me .rtfd doc.
Latest version:
- Additional accommodation for macOS 12 Monterey
More information for Assimilate View Options v6.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.0
For macOS 11 and later only. 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 12 Monterey
- UI update
More information for Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.0
For macOS 11 and later only This script will copy the selected tracks to one or more chosen playlists.
Also see Remove From Other Playlists.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
- UI and performance enhancements
More information for Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove n Characters From Front or Back v7.0
For macOS 11 or later. 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.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 12 Monterey
- UI and performance enhancements
More information for Remove n Characters From Front or Back v7.0 and download link is here.