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UPDATED: Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. MP3, AAC and ALAC audio files have the capability to store artwork image data internally as metadata, thus allowing artwork to "travel" with a file. This applet will examine the files of the selected tracks (or tracks in the selected playlist) for artwork metadata. Eligible audio tracks whose files are capable of embedding image data but do not contain artwork metadata will be copied to a new discrete Results playlist.
Latest version:
- Re-oriented scan settings
- Accomodations for macOS 26 Tahoe
More information for Tracks Without Embedded Artwork v3.3 and download link is here.
My App Was Nabbed by the Rosetta 2 Police
Apple has begun showing notifications at you if you run pre-Universal apps at your house. The notification advises you that the app depends on Rosetta 2 in order to run on your Apple silicon Mac and Apple will be phasing Rosetta 2 into oblivion next year. So now you know that app may not work in a year or so.
Got a notification on one of my own internal production scripts which made me laugh. I've been trying to get the notification again, but thank goodness it doesn't show everytime I use the app.
You might see this notification if you run old (5 years plus) versions of scripts from this site. Most all have been updated to Universal, so you should find out if there's an update. If not, let me know.
UPDATED: Coverscope v2.8
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. This applet will show both the assigned track artwork and the local file's metadata artwork (if any exists) for the selected track. The Track entry artwork well supports copy, paste and drags. Pasting or dragging image data immediately applies the image to the selected track's artwork and attempts to embed it. Additional tools can Embed or Apply artwork between track and file.
Latest version:
- Accommodations and adjustments for macOS 26 Tahoe
More information for Coverscope v2.8 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Dupin v4.0.0
Gave the venerable Dupin a dose of updatium.
Mostly UI updatium. I also cleared out some older routines that were obsolete for this reason or that.
Dupin can examine your desktop music library to help you handle duplicate tracks. Mostly by helping you pick the ones to trash. But also by giving you an overall picture beyond what the "Show Duplicates" feature in the Music app gives you. Surely you know someone who's used Dupin over the years. They'll tell you.
Dupin v4.0.0 is a free update for registered users, $15.00 for new users, and $5.00 if your current registration is five or more years old.
NEW: Who Da Album Artist v1.0
As you likely know, individual music tracks can each have their own individual artist tag. But there are situations when a single mega-artist is handy-like-a-handle for an album of tracks. Like "Various Artists" for compilation albums or "Ray Charles" if it's Ray with different artists on each track. That's why our Founding Fathers created the album artist tag.
Every discreet album in your collection should have an associated "album artist". It's what you'd see as the display artist on the cover or spine of a physical album, for example. Here in the digital future, where albums have been disintegrated into tracks, there is no "album"; the "album" information is born by the tracks it "contains" so the tracks can be re-integrated as an "album" in yer third-party devices there. Thus, the album artist tag is more like an "album tag", rather than a "track tag". Each track of an album should have the same text in its album artist tag. In fact, having mixed text in an album's tracks' album artist tags completely neutralizes the purpose of the mononymnic album artist tag. And some screwing up your music library royally is also nominally possible.
I thought I had album artist configurations handily and dandily in hand over the years. So I was recently in mid-to-high dudgeon after noticing a bunch of albums whose tracks had incorrect or inconsistent or missing album artist tags. CHAAAArrrristopher Columbus! Like I really wanna spend a lot of time going through my library looking for albums with problem album artist tags. So instead I spent what probably would have been the same amount of time making an app that would do the album artist wrangling for me.
Who Da Album Artist will scan your Music library and if it finds any album whose tracks' album artist tags are missing or inconsistent (more than one per album, for example), will give you the opportunity to enter the appropriate album artist and sort album artist tags.
Latest version:
- Initial release
More information for Who Da Album Artist v1.0 and download link is here.
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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UPDATED: Playlist XML Viewer v2.0
Open (or drag-and-drop) and view the contents of a playlist XML file exported from the Music app in a conventional table layout. Includes options to play local files, send (import) the XML to the Music app, export a TXT, CSV or M3U version, copy info to clipboard and reveal existing files in the Finder. (Not for use with exported Library XML files.)
Also see Playlist XML Librarian which can manage a folder-full of exported Playist XML files.
Latest version:
- Adds audio player features
- Adds Open Recent Items subfolder
More information for Playlist XML Viewer v2.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: A Space Between v3.5
This stay-open applet will play each track in the selected playlist and will wait (you might say insert but that's technically incorrect) a user-set number of seconds between each. Play can commence at the "top" of the playlist or from a selected track and, optionally, in random track order.
Latest version:
- Fixed problem presenting donation panel
- Minor UI updates
More information for A Space Between v3.5 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Side Splitter v3.0
Side Splitter will allow you to configure a selection of tracks (presumably the tracks of a single particular album, although any tracks will do) like the sides of an analog LP. The script will then have the Music app play each "side" one at a time, with a few seconds of space between each track and slightly more space between sides (to emulate the time it would take to flip the record over).
The playback experience is, surprisingly, kinda remarkable, if I do say so myself. (Meanwhile, apparently there's some new Apple Music feature that forces tracks to seg even closer.)
You can get the track order for an album if you Search Discogs or Search Wikipedia.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26 Tahoe
- Redesigned UI and concept
More information for Side Splitter v3.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: A Space Between v3.4
This stay-open applet will play each track in the selected playlist and will wait (you might say insert but that's technically incorrect) a user-set number of seconds between each. Play can commence at the "top" of the playlist or from a selected track.
Latest version:
- Redesigned settings panel
- Maintenance and performance fixes
- Accommodation for macOS 26 Tahoe
More information for A Space Between v3.4 and download link is here.
