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UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v1.3
This applet will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, edit, search and send (import) them to the Music app. Makes it easy to maintain an organized stockpile of exported Playlist XMLs to reduce the number of onboard Music playlists.
Latest version:
- UI adjustments and detailing; minimal Liquid Glass added
- Accepts Open'd and drag-and-dropped Playlist XMLs
- Description field displays popover for longer text
- Table displays Normalization value if present
- Adds "Send to Music app" and "Reveal Default Folder" buttons in main window
- Adds File and Remote Track Type counts to header display
- Handles :00.0 length URL entries properly
- Fixed issue with Filter
Frankly, I would rarely export a playlist as an XML file because traveling to the command to do it—buried in the Music app's File menu—always seemed like a long arduous journey for my mouse. That all changed when I assigned the keyboard shortcut Command-E to the File -> Library -> Export Playlist... menu command. Then I couldn't stop exporting playlists.
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The Bathroom Music Server
I've mentioned my Bathroom Music Server on The Next Track Podcast and other places so I thought I'd tell a little about it.
First of all: you know how when you're at the market and you hear music playing over the speakers? You did not enter the market to hear music, but There It Is. Or when you're drivin' down the Mass Pike and you gotta make a pitstop just west of the Middle of Nowhere in Blandford and there's music playing in the lav'? You did not enter the lav' to hear music, but There It Is. Or when you go get a haircut at Tony's. You did not enter Tony's to hear non-stop Italian Opera, but There It Is.
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NEW: Block Party Weekend
We used to get a lot of beer ad money by staging "Double Shot Weekends" and bonus'ing the Beer Guys weekend sponsorships. As seemingly popular as "Double Shot Tuesdays" and Three-Fer Thursdays" may have been, normal listeners hate more than one song by an artist. Major tune-out. But the hardcore P1's, they love that stuff. Suckers. That's how we kept them listening over the weekend, which is not a great radio listening time period. And the Beer Guys owned the weekend. Everybody's happy.
Anyway. How'd you like a batch of two-fers for old times' sake?
Block Party Weekend is a stand-alone music player that can devise and play artist blocks of various size and criteria.
If you have enough variety in your music library, Block Party Weekend will likely play continuously for longer than any weekend.
Block Party Weekend is fully-featured donationware for macOS 26/Tahoe and later only.
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Realized a couple of days ago that I completely missed the twenty-fifth anniversary of this site, which was February 15th. It's in Calendar app and everything.
I have been a bit distracted lately. I recently discovered that it's remarkably easy (and barrels of fun) to use NSAudioPlayer in an AppleScript app. At least, the kind that I make. I anticipated threading issues and all that kinda thing. Works just great.
It has never seriously occurred to me to make a fully-fledged audio player. But now I feel like I've discovered model aeroplaning or something. Like that German designer in "Flight of the Phoenix". I don't build real big airplanes, just little ones that you fly in your driveway.
If you have an opportunity, try Play Play, Murph and/or Yer Stack.
Twenty-sixth anniversary will be comin' at you fast.
