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Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist v2.3

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Oct 30, 2007
  • latest version downloads: 7874 | total downloads: 30567
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will survey the selected tracks or the selected Playlist for tracks without any artwork and quickly copy them to a new discrete Playlist. Requires iTunes 7 or better.

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Embed Artwork v1.1

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Brian Webster
  • latest version posted: Sep 25, 2006
  • total downloads: 17972
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will re-embed artwork into the files of the selected tracks. (iTunes 7 or better.)

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Save Album Art to Album Folder v1.3

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Sep 19, 2006
  • latest version downloads: 6625 | total downloads: 9554
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will export the Artwork of the selected tracks as a graphics file to the folder which contains each selected track's file--presumably the track's "Album" folder--or a specific user-selected folder. Uses the included "ProgBar" application to indicate progress. Read Me explains much more, including modifications you can easily make.

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Art to Desktop v1.1

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Jul 26, 2006
  • latest version downloads: 2295 | total downloads: 2306
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This Stay-Open applet will continuously update your desktop picture to the album artwork of the currently playing track.

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Export Artwork to iPhoto v1.3

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Apr 7, 2006
  • latest version downloads: 2416 | total downloads: 4563
  • View the Read Me as PDF

Export the artwork of the selected tracks--or tracks of the selected Playlist--to iPhoto 5 or better, where they will also be copied to a new or existing photo album. Requires Mac OS X 10.3 or better, iPhoto 5 or better, and iTunes 4.0 or better.
? Set your Screen Saver to use your artwork photo album and impress your friends with your super-cool album artwork collection.

Publish your artwork photo album on your .mac page, like I did in this example.

Includes the accessory application "ProgBar" which will display the progress of the exporting process. "ProgBar" is written by T.J. Mahaffey of Spork Software.

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Search for Local Artwork Files

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • posted: Jan 19, 2006
  • total downloads: 2932
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will perform a Spotlight search for PNG and JPEG files whose names contain the Artist and/or Album of a selected iTunes track. You can then choose to show the results in the Finder.

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Remove All iPod Artwork

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • posted: Dec 29, 2005
  • total downloads: 2277
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will delete all the artwork from every track in the selected iPod, thus freeing up some space.

Although you could easily select every track in the iPod library, select Get Info, OK a multiple edit, and check-mark the empty artwork panel, the process of removing artwork in this manner would tie-up iTunes and iPod until the artwork has been removed. This script will work in the background and allow you to continue using iTunes.

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Restore iPod Album Art v1.1

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Dec 29, 2005
  • latest version downloads: 2681 | total downloads: 4039
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will attempt to re-add or replace the display artwork of the selected iPod tracks with artwork from a corresponding album's track in your iTunes library. Read Me is a must read.

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Set No Cover

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • posted: Nov 29, 2005
  • total downloads: 2480
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will apply a [no cover] graphic as the artwork to the selected iTunes tracks.

Also included is a droplet that will enable you to convert your own artwork as the default artwork used by the script.

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Artwork=1 BPM

  • build type: Plain AppleScript
  • written by Doug Adams
  • latest version posted: Sep 30, 2005
  • total downloads: 1626
  • View the Read Me as PDF

This script will set the BPM of the selected tracks--or the tracks of the selected playlist--to "1" if the track contains artwork.

Thus, you can then create a Smart Playlist utilizing "BPM is 1" to include tracks with artwork.

This script is not for everybody, and certainly not for users who utilize the BPM tag for its intended purpose.

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