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30 Most Recent RSS FeedUPDATED: Delete Empty Playlists v5.5
This script will list the empty user-created playlists in the Music app and can delete all or just a selection of them.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Delete Empty Playlists v5.5 and download link is here.
What's Up with macOS 26 Tahoe and Music
For reasons unknown but guessable, it really doesn't appear like macOS 26 was ready for Prime Time. Nor many of its components. Including the Music and TV apps. And their AppleScripting capabilities.
But I've noticed that things are getting better as the macOS 26.1 Betas are released.
Several Correspondents have contacted me regarding problems with the reveal command. It is currently broken. The reveal command is used in an AppleScript Music script to select and highlight a track or a playlist. This borks, as we say, the features of several scripts.
However, in the latest macOS 26.1 Beta 4, reveal track works again but not reveal playlist. So...good-ish news?
Somewhat related—I think—is that set view of front browser window to playlist "Brit Blues" to select and highlight a playlist doesn't work either. But you can get view of front browser window.
The inconsistency suggests to me that "they just haven't gotten around to everything yet".
On another note, Regular Visitors may notice that I am updating many of the scripts. Believe it or not, its mostly UI stuff; windows in macOS 26 use larger corner radiuses which sort of squeezes the available real estate. Thus, stuff has to be re-aligned and so on. Otherwise my symmetry OCD will kill me.
UPDATED: Reset Tracks v1.2
The Music.app has a "Reset" button in the Details panel of each track's Get Info window which will re-initialize some track properties such as Plays and Skips. This script allows the user to choose which of several additional Music.app tags to reset to initialized states, which can be selectively more or less thorough than the Music.app's Reset action. Also see the slightly more aggressive Reset Plays.
Sync library users should note Apple's "Bug-or-Feature" whereby changes to these tags don't always proliferate correctly, if at all.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
- Updated nomenclature
More information for Reset Tracks v1.2 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Scan For Double Entries v4.3
This applet will scan your Music library for pairs of track entries that--very strangely--point to the same file and then copy those tracks to a discrete playlist for further examination; presumably you'll want to remove one of the faux pair tracks without Trashing the single associated file.
More about this issue is here.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Scan For Double Entries v4.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.4
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 26/Tahoe
More information for Remove Leading-Trailing Spaces v3.4 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Not In Any Playlist v4.2
This applet will scan the Music app for tracks that are not assigned to any user-created playlists and display them. Once assembed, selected tracks in the list can be assigned to a user-chosen playlist or exported as a text file.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Not In Any Playlist v4.2 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Track Down Purchases v5.3
This applet can examine the Music library and sort audio tracks purchased from iTunes into discrete playlists by either the purchaser's name or Apple ID (eg: "Purchased by Jane Smith" or "Purchased by janesmith@email.com") which in turn will be placed in a "Purchaser Playlists" playlist folder.
Free to try in Demo Mode: While in Demo Mode, the number of tracks associated with each Purchaser will be reported but sorting tracks into playlists is disabled. An in-app purchase of a registration code will enable playlist creation.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Track Down Purchases v5.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Album Rating Reset v5.5
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.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
- "Stop" feature removed due to OS regression; it may re-appear in future
More information for Album Rating Reset v5.5 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Show Me The Metadata v3.4
This script will display the audio metadata and the Spotlight metadata for the file of a selected track in the Music app or user-selected audio file, or a drag-and-dropped Music track or audio file. Includes additional features to display embedded artwork and activate the Finder's Information Window for the file.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Show Me The Metadata v3.4 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Move Playlists to Folder v4.6
This script will move the batch of playlists you select to a new or existing Playlist Folder. Additionally, plain Playlists can be extricated from Folders to the top level and new Playlist Folders can be created containing a selection of Playlists.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Move Playlists to Folder v4.6 and download link is here.
