iTunes AppleScripts

Useful JavaScript AppleScripts I make for batch-altering iTunes track data. Inspired by scripts by Doug Adams

If you import lots of music into your iTunes library and you want your track data to be perfect, don't alter them by hand! Use scripts! A combination of scripts by Doug Adams and my own work really well. If there's a script I haven't made, don't worry, I make scripts all the time!

Feel free to request some new scripts ideas (just create an issue).

Feel free to use and modify yourself! Just keep them free to use.

Be careful - please backup your iTunes library before using

How to install

Install node using NVM, and use nvm install -s to install Node 8.

Then run:

git clone https://github.com/dylan-chong/itunes-applescripts
cd itunes-applescripts
npm install

How to use

1. Run npm run gulp -- ls to see all available script names
2. Run npm run gulp -- build-execute -s a-script-name to build and then execute the script. Run again with --no-dry-run as an argument to apply side effects

Or alternately:

1. Run npm run gulp -- build to build all of the scripts into ./build/, or run gulp build -s <the-script-name> to build a specific script (run npm run gulp -- ls to see all available names)
2. Call npm run gulp -- execute build/<SCRIPT-NAME-HERE> to run a specific script

Note: There are plenty of TypeScript warnings because this project was recently moved to TypeScript, but not all scripts have been typed yet.

You can also run npm run gulp -- help to see the list of tasks and descriptions

Enabling scripts

The scripts are all disabled in a hard-coded way. In order to get the script to apply changes to your iTunes library, look for the line of code that // Code that applies the changes:, uncomment the code below it, and run the script again. This will be changed in the future, ideally with some sort of GUI.

Debugging with Safari

• Open Safari, then enable Develop > YourComputerName > Automatically Show Web Inspector for JSContexts
• Then add a debugger line somewhere in the program (the debugger won't open until the program reaches this line)
• Run the program. Note that sometimes the debugger doesn't open for some reason, in which case just restart Safari.

A more useful way to use when developing scripts

Run npm run gulp -- watch then edit a ./src/scripts/<SCRIPT-NAME>/<SCRIPT-NAME>.script.ts script file using your favourite text editor / web IDE. Gulp will watch for changes, rebuild the changed script, and execute it (including when you just write the file without making any changes).