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Recommendations by Task

Here, in no particular order, are a small number of script recommendations that perform some commonly asked-for tasks. Be sure to use the Search field at the top of the page to find more specific scripts-by-task

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Track Tag Manipulation

(Also see track tag text editing scripts below)

Track Tag Text Editing

Ratings, Play Counts, Dates

  • Album Rating Reset v5.5
    [ For Music ] Batch-change/clear the Album Rating for albums of selected tracks
  • Rate Me! Rate Me! v6.8
    [ For Music ] Applet compels you to rate current track
  • New Play Count v5.0
    [ For Music ] Set the Plays of selected tracks
  • Add or Subtract Play Count v3.2
    [ For Music ] Add or subtract a user-entered number from each selected track's Plays
  • New Last Played Date v6.2
    [ For Music/TV ] Batch set new Last Played/Last Skipped of selected tracks
  • Reset Plays v3.0
    [ For Music ] Reset history properties of selected tracks to default values
  • Reset Tracks v1.2
    [ For Music ] Reset/initialize tracks play history, ratings and more

Playlists

  • Merge-Delete Playlists v7.5
    [ For Music ] Batch merge and/or delete playlists
  • Playlist Manager v5.0
    [ For Music ] Perform tasks on a batch of playlists; rename, delete, duplicate, merge, more
  • Playlists Info v2.1
    [ For Music ] Displays size, time, track count and more info about each Playlist
  • Export Playlist as CSV v1.0
    [ For Music ] Export track info of selected playlist as CSV file

Playlist-Building

  • Search Results to Playlist v3.5
    [ For Music ] Emulates Music search and copies results to a playlist
  • Play Random Album v4.1
    [ For Music ] Creates and plays playlist using tracks from album chosen at random
  • Block Party! v5.1
    [ For Music ] Create a playlist of random Artists and set number of random songs back-to-back
  • Random Full Albums to Playlist v4.1
    [ For Music ] Fill a playlist with user-set number of randomly selected full albums

Getting Info

  • Show Me the Track Info v1.0
    [ For Music ] Floating window displays configurable info for playing/selected track
  • Display File Path v3.3
    [ For Music ] Continuously update a floating display with file path of selected track
  • Playlist XML Viewer v2.0
    [ For Music ] View/play contents of exported playlist XML files
  • Lyrics Tag Viewer v1.1
    [ For Music ] View, edit a track's Custom Lyrics tag in non-modal window

Artwork

Transport Control

  • Needle Drop v7.7
    [ For Music ] Play through each track in a playlist at your set interval
  • A Space Between v3.5
    [ For Music ] Applet plays tracks with a user-set duration of silence between each track
  • Skip Back or Ahead v4.2
    [ For Music/TV ] Advance or rewind the currently playing track an entered number of seconds

General Library Tidying

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