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M3UnifyUPDATED: List MIAs v6.6
Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. This applet checks your Media library for missing and presumed dead tracks—those tracks that have become disassociated from their file and which are listed with a “!”—and can delete them from the Music app or create a text file listing these tracks by last known File Path, Title, Artist and Album, which you can view using TextEdit.
Also see Super Remove Dead Tracks and Media Folder Files Not Added.
Latest version:
- General maintenance, UI update
- Fixes unusual issue with locating track for reveal
More information for List MIAs v6.6 and download link is here.
Saddest Deprecation Notice?
Definetly in the running. From macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 2 Release Notes: “AirPort Utility is no longer included with new clean installations of macOS. However, if you update macOS when AirPort Utility is already installed, it remains on your system but functionality is not guaranteed starting in macOS 27.”
You can just look at it. For the memories.
Annual Warning About Betas
The final realease of mac OS 27 Golden Gate won’t be until the Fall. Until then, there will be several stages of beta releases. Unless you are a developer or need to know how future software will effect this, that or the other then you don’t need to install the betas.
But I know you will. If so, do not depend on any current AppleScripts from this site working correctly in macOS 27 until the final release. (I can tell you that as of the date of this post, the AppleScript delete command does not work in the Music app. See what I’m saying?)
The mute Command is Busted
Just noticed that setting the mute AppleScript command is busted in the Music app. I’m pretty sure it was the only way to actually mute the audio without just setting the volume to 0. I don’t know how long it hasn’t worked. The end of the mute command deserves a short moment of silence. Oh wait…
UPDATED: Join Together v9.0.0
Join Together v9.0.0 has been posted. Join Together will create and export a single AAC or ALAC audio file from a list of audio tracks or files dragged to it from the Music app or the Finder.
More information and download is here.
UPDATED: Needle Drop v7.8
Needle Drop plays each track in the selected Music playlist for a set time interval optionally starting at a set number of seconds into each track, beginning with the selected track. Handy for ‘scoping playlists.
Needle Drop will work best on tracks that have local files. Un-cached tracks streamed from the cloud may upset timing while audio is being downloaded.
Latest version:
- Fixed issue causing crash on engage
- Updates UI Scripting to correct an issue that may have prevented operation
- General maintenance
More information for Needle Drop v7.8 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Dupin v4.0.1
Dupin v4.0.1 is available. It fixes an issue that, depending on the circumstances, may have prevented completion of a Purge. If you saw an error message about “finalIntro” you know what I’m talking about. One other inside baseball note: Sparkle download-and-install will return for the next update. Download v4.0.1 from Dupin‘s page.
Another Thing You Thought Was OK to Do
Want to know a thing that can severely mess up your music library? I know you do. This has never happened to me because, well, because….But if you really want to mess things up, use emoji in your songs’ tags and/or playlist names. It’ll screw things up like you read about. Good luck! Or, bad luck! as the case may be.
Thought I’d pass that along.
UPDATED: Playlist XML Librarian v2.0
I’ve suspected for years that there would come a time when I’d want one of my AppleScript dinguses to grow up into an Xcode app. You can only do so much with a single thread. I’ve been using Playlist XML Librarian pretty regularly and the AppleScript incarnation just wasn’t able to gimme what I need.
Playlist XML Librarian v2.0 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.
Latest version:
- 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 v2.0 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Remove From Other Playlists v3.0
A Correspondent recently divulged to me that his Music library contains over 5K Smart playlists. I just had to tell somebody.
It reminds me of an old Punch cartoon showing a rather ragged gentleman with a face full of bandaids and a very shabby looking growth of beard sitting at a table writing a letter: “Dear Sirs: I have used the same razor blade daily for seven months. Is this some kind of record?”
Anyway. It’s good to keep yer library nice ‘n’ neat in my opinion. You can start with this:
Remove From Other Playlists will load, list and examine a selection of tracks from a selected playlist in the Music app and then display the other playlists that also contain them. The tracks can then be batch-removed from any one or more of these other playlists.
Latest version:
- Initial re-release
More information for Remove From Other Playlists v3.0 and download link is here.
