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30 Most Recent RSS FeedBug or Feature? Non-Persistent Permission to Read the Media Library
If you've been following along, you will have noticed how Apple has, over the years, gotten stingier with which and how certain "protected resources" on your Mac can be accessed by third parties. One of these resources is your Media library. In order to access information about your Media library, a third party app has to declare its intentions to the user. This is a typical dialog you will see in such a situation:
Conventionally, this will be displayed as you launch the script app for the first time. Then the user's "Allow" decision will be remembered every time you launch it thereafter.
This is not happening in macOS 26/Tahoe. Every time you launch such a script you will see this dialog.
Not every script requires access to the Media library so this doesn't happen with every script. But it does with enough of the popular ones.
I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior. I filed a bug report.
UPDATED: List MIAs v6.5
This applet checks your Music or TV 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 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.
Free to use in Demo Mode: While in Demo Mode, dead tracks will be displayed and can be exported as a list to a text file. Delete from Music/TV and other features will be disabled.
To purchase a registration code and remove these restrictions, download and launch the app. Click "Register..." in its File menu and follow the prompts to purchase a code for $2.99. When your payment is processed, you will be emailed a registration code that will unlock the Demo Mode restrictions.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for List MIAs v6.5 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Super Remove Dead Tracks v6.4
Scans the Music or TV app for tracks whose files are inaccessible or no longer available (so-called "dead" tracks). Outputs a tab-delimited text log listing the tracks by Artist, Name, Album and last known file location. The registered version will delete the tracks.
Also see List MIAs and Media Folder Files Not Added.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
- Removed "Stop" feature due to an OS regression; may return in future
More information for Super Remove Dead Tracks v6.4 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Search-Replace Tag Text v7.4
Performs a search-and-replace on the text in your choice of track tags in the Music or TV app (Title, Artist/Director, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Comments, Genre, Grouping, Show, Movement or Work) in the selected tracks or all the tracks in the selected Playlist. Features case sensitivity and whole word match options and "Test run" preview.
This app is free to try in Demo Mode. In Demo Mode only up to 5 tracks can be processed per launch. You can purchase a code for $1.99 which will remove the 5-track Demo Mode restriction. Launch the app and click "Register..." in the its File menu to make an in-app purchase.
Latest version:
- Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
More information for Search-Replace Tag Text v7.4 and download link is here.
Apple Releases First Beta of macOS 26 Tahoe
Apple released the first developer beta of macOS 26 Tahoe on June 9 and the Public Beta program will be starting up soon as well. To date, I haven't spent much time with the first beta yet except to note that AppleScripts from this site should launch and work in it. But until the official Release Candidate is released sometime in the Fall, I can't assure that current scripts look and operate as intended.
Over the Summer, I'll be examining all the apps and AppleScripts and making updates where and when necessary. You probably know the drill by now.
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UPDATED: Increment Number Tags v4.3
This script will incrementally number your choice of the Track Number, Movement Number, Episode Number, Episode ID tags, and track Name prefix of the selected tracks. Additionally, a Track Count, Disc Number/Count and/or Movement Count can be applied to each track, Episode ID can be configured with additional text incorporating the number, and zero-padding up to five digits can be applied. (The selected tracks must be sorted by ascending Play Order for accurate results.)
Latest version:
- Fixes a problem with setting starting number
More information for Increment Number Tags v4.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Save Album Art to Album Folder v7.4
This script will export the artwork of each of the selected tracks (or the tracks in a selected playlist) as an image file to the folder which contains each selected track's file--presumably each track's Album folder--or to a single user-selected folder. If multiple album tracks are selected, the script will make sure only one artwork file per Album is exported.
Latest version:
- Maintenance and minor performance fixes
- Fixes glitch in Settings
More information for Save Album Art to Album Folder v7.4 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Save Album Art as folder.jpg v5.3
This script will export the artwork of the selected tracks or tracks in the selected playlist as a JPEG image file named folder.jpg to the folder which contains each selected track's file--presumably the track's Album folder. Many third-party music players and systems may look for a "folder.jpg" here to use as display artwork. If multiple album tracks are selected, the script will make sure only one image file per Album is exported.
Latest version:
- Maintenance and minor performance fixes
More information for Save Album Art as folder.jpg v5.3 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Quick Convert v5.7
Convert all or just the selected tracks of the selected Playlist using your choice of available encoders, restoring your Preferences-set encoder afterwards.
Additionally, you can:
- Choose to delete and/or Trash the original tracks and/or files
- Copy all converted tracks to a playlist
Latest version:
- Fixes issue with setting to float
- Maintenance and minor performance fixes
- Accommodations for macOS Sonoma
More information for Quick Convert v5.7 and download link is here.
UPDATED: Insert Text into Tag v1.3
This script will insert the same user-entered text at a specific position in the designated tag of each selected track.
The Title, Artist, Director, Album Artist, Album, Category, Composer, Comments, Grouping, Movement, Work and associated Sort tags are the options available in the Popup.
Latest version:
- Fixes issue with default popup selection
- Maintenance and minor performance fixes
More information for Insert Text into Tag v1.3 and download link is here.
