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30 Most Recent RSS FeedUPDATED: Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks v6.9
This applet will copy specific tag data from one set of selected tracks to a second set of selected tracks. You can copy any combination of Checkmark, Song Title, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Year, Disc and Track, Composer, Grouping, Work, Movement, BPM, Comments, Lyrics, Rating, Favorite/Suggest Less, Plays/Skips, Artwork and Compilation.
Latest version:
- UI update for macOS 26
- Fixed text animation issue
- Maintenance and regression removal
More information for Copy Tag Info Tracks to Tracks v6.9 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Doug’s Check For All Updates v2.0
This applet will survey your computer for AppleScripts downloaded from dougscripts.com and create a report, locally stored and viewable in your web browser, listing the scripts for which updates are available.
Note: previous versions of this script will cease to work on January 1, 2027.
Latest version:
- UI updates, maintenance
More information for Doug’s Check For All Updates v2.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Playlist Manager v5.1
The Music app only allows one playlist to be selected at a time. I mean, it makes sense. Select two arbitrary playlists and what would be displayed in the browser window? I’ll bet no one knows. I think it would be Messy. That’s my guess.
Playlist Manager v5.1 can perform common useful tasks on a multiple selection of playlists: playlist title renaming (add text, remove text, search and replace text, text transforms), change View, duplicate, delete, export, move to Playlist Folder, merge playlists and remove track copies.
Latest version:
- Minor UI update
- Maintenance
- Icon and docs update
More information for Playlist Manager v5.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Compare Two Playlists v5.3
Quickly compares the contents of any two playlists and displays the tracks that are common to both or the tracks in one playlist not contained by the other. Has tools to copy or move tracks from one playlist to another or delete common tracks from one or the other playlist.
Latest version:
- Fixed a modern problem indexing playlists
- Minor UI update
More information for Compare Two Playlists v5.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove Duplicate Tracks from Playlist v2.1
Tracks may have been dragged/added/copied to a user playlist two or more times—defying the Music app’s caution about adding them—and now each of them appears multiple times in the playlist. This script will remove all but one of these kind of duplicate tracks from a selected playlist. (This does not have anything to do with duplicate files that each have an individual track entry in the Music library.)
Also see Remove From Other Playlists which does what it says.
Latest version:
- UI rebuild
- Maintenance and minor fixes
More information for Remove Duplicate Tracks from Playlist v2.1 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.3
This applet will copy the selected tracks to one or more chosen playlists–or move them, after which they will be removed from the source playlist (if possible; tracks cannot be removed from dynamically populated playlists).
Also see Remove From Other Playlists.
Latest version:
- Fixed regressions
- UI rebuild
- Minor maintenance
More information for Copy Tracks to Multiple Playlists v6.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Lyrics Tag Viewer v1.2
View and edit a selected track’s Custom Lyrics tag in a non-modal window, which, unlike a track’s Info panel, will not block keyboard and mouse activity in the Music app’s interface.
Whereas the Comments tag can only accept about 250 text characters, the “Custom Lyrics” tag can hold a lot of text. And I mean a lot of text. Custom Lyrics text will also get written to a track’s file as metadata. So it’s an ideal place to store information about an album. Especially if you’re not interested in storing lyrics there.
I got in the habit of using the Lyrics tag of the first track of an album to store liner-note-caliber text snippets about the album. Or actual liner notes if they are available. The screenshot above shows some text I copied from the album’s Wikipedia entry. In any case, I know that if an album has any info it’ll be in track 1’s Lyrics.
But a track’s Show Info displays a modal window which prevents doing anything else with the Music app while it’s open. So I use Lyrics Tag Viewer to display the lyrics or liner notes or what have you while an album is playing but without blocking access to Music.
Latest version:
- Minor UI updates and maintenance
More information for Lyrics Tag Viewer v1.2 and download link is here.
Restored in Beta 4
I can happily report that the delete command breakage I mentioned previously has been fixed in Golden Gate Beta 4. Couldn’t leave it hanging there like nothing was ever done about it.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v2.1
The original AppleScript version of Playlist XML Librarian had a search function but I didn’t like it much. So I decided not to include it in the v2.0 rebuild until I figured out a better way to do it. Well, I went ahead and did that for v2.1.
Playlist XML Librarian v2.1 will list the exported Playlist XML files collected in a specified folder with options to view, edit 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.
Also see Playlist XML Viewer which can display and play a single selected local Playlist XML file drag-and-dropped or chosen. For handling exported library XML files, see Library XML Track Viewer
Latest version:
- Adds search feature; searches XML collection for playlist XMLs with track entries whose Title, Artist, Album or Composer tag matches entered search text.
- v2.0 (jun 3 2026):
- Outgrew AppleScript, is now a full-fledged Xcode app
- Overall speed boost
- Checks each XML file for appearance in the Music app as status
- Sort playlist XML list by name, date, track count, playlist kind and status
- Additional Settings to configure status indexing and display
- Description overspill appears in popover
- Toggle playlist info visible
More information for Playlist XML Librarian v2.1 and download link is here.
And Rip ‘Em When Ya Get ‘Em
From The Verge:
“CD sales are apparently going up, reportedly thanks to fans realizing they’re an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year. The growth in CD sales was driven by “collection building, price accessibility, massive albums such as BTS’ ARIRANG and a strong K-pop release schedule,” Luminate says.
Nice to see stories like this every once in a while, right?
