Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes

If you’re extremely thorough (anally-retentive) like me, your iTunes library is probably in pristine shape. And if you happened to have spent a couple of weeks downloading the entire catalog of a certain dead composer, you may need to clean up the ID3 tags a bit to fit your needs. About 15 GB of rar files.

At such an epic proportion, I couldn’t help myself but to seek a better solution to my problem.

Here’s a link to just a few of the tools I found extremely useful.

• ScriptPal: You should grab this first, as it makes running these AppleScripts a lot easier. And floating translucent palette windows are pretty.

• Put Track Prefix to Track Number v1.5: If your filename start with a track number, take that number and make it into the track number for the ID3 tag.

• Remove n Characters From Front or Back v3.0: Pretty self-explanatory. Don’t you hate it when iTunes prepends the track number when the file name starts with that number with the ID3 tag having a track number?

• Search/Replace Tag Text: Just handy to have.

There are plenty more on that Top 100 download list which I’ve been messing around with. Hit up the comments if you find anything more useful.