Show Me The Metadata v2.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script will display the audio metadata and the Spotlight metadata for either the file of a selected track in the Music app or a drag-and-dropped or user-selected audio file. Includes additional features to display embedded artwork and activate the Finder's Information Window for the file.

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The audio metadata is displayed in the top half and the Spotlight metadata is displayed in the bottom half.

Album Rating Reset v4.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script will allow you to batch set or clear the Album Rating and/or Album Love/Dislike 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 loved of the entire album). Handy for clearing batches of albums of their user-set album ratings, or re-rating batches of albums.

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Be sure to select at least one track of each album for which you want to change the Album Rating.

Needle Drop v7.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This applet 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.

For best results clear the Up Next list before engaging.

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Settings are saved between launches.

Doug's Check For All Updates v1.1

For macOS 10.10 and later. This script 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 and links to download them.

Increment Number Tags v3.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. 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.)

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Apply incremented numbers to the appropriately sorted track selection.

Quick Convert v5.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later. 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/imported tracks to a new playlist

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Convert the selected tracks using the AAC encoder, for example. Your default encoder is restored afterwards.

Refresh Smart Playlists v3.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This script will "refresh" the selected user-created Smart Playlists by removing the tracks they contain (if possible*) which then obliges them to dynamically repopulate, ostensibly with different tracks.

*Note that tracks cannot be removed from a Smart Playlist which already contains every track of the library meeting its criteria--it would just repopulate with the same tracks. Smart Playlists with the "Limit to" and "Live updating" criteria in use are more likely to be "refreshable".

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Click "Refresh" to repopulate the selected Smart Playlists.

CD Text to CD Info v5.0

For macOS 10.15 Catalina and later only. This applet will attempt to extract the CD Text information from the selected audio CD in the Music app and apply it to the CD's disc and track tags.

Some commercial CDs and commercial CD burning software (including the Music app) can use CD Text as a method of including text data on an audio CD. This data can include Artist (Performer), Album, Composer, Track Title, and Genre info. See the Read Me for more information.

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In this example, all the tag data (except Year and Disc Number, which I supplied) are derived from the CD's CD Text.

Music Folder Files Not Added v6.0

For macOS 10.12 or later. This application will list the file paths of the media files in your designated "iTunes Media" folder which are not associated with any tracks in iTunes' track library. Additionally, you can select a different parent folder and its contents will be compared to the iTunes library. Includes options to Filter results, Add a selection of found files to iTunes, move them to the Trash, and Export a text file listing the file paths. Mobile apps information is not accessible.

Also see Find Empty iTunes Media Folders.

The original name of the "iTunes Media" folder was "iTunes Music". That's why this script is named the way it is.

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These files are in my "iTunes Media" folder but do not appear as track entries in iTunes. The tracks may have been deleted from iTunes but, for whatever reason, I did not choose to move their files to the Trash.

File Number Prefix to Track Number v1.0

For macOS 10.10 and later only. This script will examine the filename of each of the selected tracks for an initial disc number-track number and copy the latter to the track's track number tag. For example, the track number from "2-09 Run Like Hell.m4a" would be 9; the track number from "06 Us and Them.m4a" would be 6.

Probably only useful for when "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" is unchecked OFF.