UPDATED: Track Down Purchases v2.0
If you have been making purchases from the iTunes Store using several names or account names then maybe you'll have noticed that there's no easy way to sort purchased tracks by the name or account name used to make the purchase. Oh, wait a minute. Yes there is.
Track Down Purchases v2.0 will examine each track in your entire iTunes libraryor a selection of tracksfor items purchased from the iTunes Store (audio, video, and books) and then sort them by either the purchaser's name (the "Purchased by" entry in a track's Get Info Summary tab) or account ("Account Name") into discrete playlists.
This latest version is written as a Cocoa-AppleScript applet for OS 10.6 or 10.7 only, adds the ability to sort by account name, and provides a progress indicator. (My thanks to Correspondent Andrew Wynn Rouse for inventing the account name search portion.)
UPDATED: Assimilate View Options v3.0
Assimilate View Options v3.0 re-creates a selected playlist so its View Options (visible columns) are the same as the main Music library (taking advantage of the fact that new playlists acquire the Music library's View Options). Works only with regular playlists and Smart playlists.
This latest version works with playlists inside a folder playlist.
Assign it a keyboard shortcut for ease of use.
iTunes 10.5 Released
Apple released iTunes 10.5 today. The long-anticipated 10.5 release includes support for iCloud, iTunes Match, and automatic downloads. OS 10.5 (Leopard) or better required. (Interestingly, the iTunes 10.5.1 beta was released to developers.)
WikiScoop v1.0.2 Released
WikiScoop is an app that lets you search for and browse Wikipedia articles written about the Artists in your iTunes library. This latest version accounts for changes in Wikipedia's page formatting which prevented images and inline links to display. Available at the Mac App Store.
UPDATED: Rate Me! Rate Me! v4.0
Rate Me! Rate Me! watches your playing tracks and when an un-rated track starts playing displays a window with a demand it be rated.
While you could easily rate the current track from the iTunes icon in the Dock, this script interrupts you and compels you to do so.
This latest version is re-written as a Cocoa-AppleScript Applet for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 only.
UPDATED: Make PDF Booklet v2.0
Make PDF Booklet v2.0 is a Cocoa-AppleScript applet that will create a PDF booklet containing tag info from the selected tracks (or every track from the selected playlist) and then add the PDF to iTunes and copy it to the playlist where the selected tracks reside.
The layout and text formatting of the document created is somewhat restricted, but I hope it is eminently readable and printable. However, you are able to choose which tag data to include for each track:
Here are example PDFs using audio tracks and using TV Show tracks made with the script.
This latest version is a Cocoa-AppleScript Applet, so it can only be run on OS X 10.6 and 10.7. A previous version which can run on earlier systems is available from the Make PDF Booklet entry page.
Smarts is a Mac Gem
Thanks to Dan Frakes for the great write-up at Macworld on my Smarts Smart Playlist manager app. It's free from the Mac App Store.
Daypart v2.0.0 Released
Daypart is a simple yet full-featured Mac application that allows you to schedule iTunes playlists when to play, giving you an easy way to program varied musical content throughout the week in your home or workplace.