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Make Video Tags v1.1

• build type: Application
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: Feb 26, 2008
• latest version downloads: 1346 | total downloads: 1965
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Simply and quickly edit basic tags of a multiple selection of video tracks in iTunes, including show, video kind, season number, description, long description, comments, lyrics, artist, album, genre, and rating; set played/not played; options to automatically increment track numbers and episode numbers and IDs. I created this AppleScript Studio application for my own use--it's a more thorough big brother to my Set Video Kind of Selected script--when ripping DVDs with Handbrake.

Requires Mac OS 10.4 or better.

Latest version:
• Can open files and add them to iTunes
• Send or sync tracks to iPod
• Adds "Ratings" tag
• Updates Help pages
• Other minor performance enhancements

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De-Genre v2.1

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: Nov 21, 2007
• latest version downloads: 1313 | total downloads: 5729
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This script re-assigns the Library tracks of selected Genres to another Genre so that the original--and consequently un-assigned--Genres disappear from iTunes' Genre pop-up list.
As you may know, you can make many superfluous Genres vanish from iTunes' Genres pop-up list simply by eliminating a reference to them in your tracks; when no tracks are assigned to a particular Genre, that Genre will be dropped. (iTunes original Genre names cannot be removed this way; only those accumulated from other sources or created by you.) Of course, you could use iTunes' multiple editing feature to do this as well, but the script doesn't require you to select batches of tracks and thus saves a few steps.

Latest version:
• Updated for Leopard compatibility.

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Album Rating Reset v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: Sep 6, 2007
• total downloads: 766
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This script will allow you to set the Album Rating for the album of the selected track to with full- and half-star ratings, or reset the Album Rating to its computed "clear-star" default rating. Requires iTunes 7.4 or better.

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Track Names With Incremented Number v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: Aug 10, 2007
• total downloads: 1638
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This script sets the Name of the selected tracks (or every track of a selected playlist) to a user-configured string using tag variables for the current name [name], track number [tn], episode number [en], episode ID [ep] and position in the selection order [#]. For example, a string such as "Desperate Housewives - Season 3/[en] - Episode [ep] - [name]" would render "Desperate Housewives - Season 3/5 - Episode 305 - Nice She Ain't", and so on.

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Number Song Names by Play Order v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: May 4, 2007
• total downloads: 1308
• View the Read Me as PDF

This script will prefix each selected track's Song Name with the number of its order in the selection (01, 02, 03...and so on). The selected tracks must be in a playlist that has been sorted by Play Order; ie, a user-created playlist, not a so-called "Master" playlist. The selection of tracks need not be contiguous, however it is important to have already established the Play Order. Read Me explains more.

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Search Artists to Make Sort Artist

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: Apr 5, 2007
• total downloads: 860
• View the Read Me as PDF

This script assists with searching for tracks whose Artist tag contain a user-entered search string. A Sort Artist tag can then be applied to each of the discovered tracks, or you can display the discovered tracks in a new playlist in order to inspect the tracks whose Sort Artist tag you wish to edit. You can use the script Batch Set Track Sorting Tags to apply a Sort Artist tag to just the selected tracks. For example, you could enter "Eno" as the search string; all tracks whose Artist tag contains "Eno" will be discovered. You can then either enter a Sort Artist tag, such as "Eno, Brian", and all the discovered tracks' Sort Artist tag will be changed; or you can choose to create a new playlist containing the discovered tracks in order to inspect the tracks whose Sort Artist you really want to edit. (Several people have suggested that a script could automatically do a "Last Name, First Name" sort of routine, but this would be prone to mistakes since not every artist tag is in the format of "First Name-Last Name"; eg: "Red Hot Chili Peppers", which would be rendered as "Peppers, Red Hot Chili", or "Driveby Truckers" as "Truckers, Driveby". AppleScript just can't do syntactic analysis!)

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Batch Set Tracks Sorting Tags v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: Mar 6, 2007
• total downloads: 3488
• View the Read Me as PDF

This script will allow you to batch-set the sorting tags ("Sort Name", "Sort Artist", "Sort Album Artist", "Sort Album", "Sort Composer", "Sort Show") of the selected tracks, rather than manually doing so one track at a time or globally using "Apply Sort Field". Requires iTunes 7.1 or better.

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Selected Tracks Played or Unplayed v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: Mar 6, 2007
• total downloads: 438
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This script will batch-set each selected track as "played" or "unplayed"; that is, the track property unplayed will be set as false or true, respectively. Requires iTunes 7.1 or better. (This emulates the "Mark As New" item in a track's contextual menu. Audio tracks, however, do not have this option.)

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Copy To Lyrics (Service) v1.1

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: Feb 2, 2007
• latest version downloads: 1304 | total downloads: 1323
• View the Read Me as PDF

This is a service for the Services menu. When run from the Services menu of any application, it will copy the selected text from that application to the Lyrics of a single selected iTunes track.

Created using the ThisService application. Original AppleScript is included as well as instructions for installing the service.

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Batch Trim Start or Stop Time (Seconds) v1.0

• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Chris Habig and Doug Adams
• posted: Jan 4, 2007
• total downloads: 768
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This script will use the user-entered number of seconds as the Start Time or as the number of seconds to be subtracted from the Stop Time of the selected tracks.

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