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A set of AppleScripts to tag songs 'on the fly' in iTunes Apps
A bit of shameless self-promotion here, but I thought the community might be interested.

I made two Quicksilver scripts that plug into iTunes: one to add tags to songs in the 'Comments' field of an MP3's ID3 tag, and another to quickly and dynamically generate playlists based on tagged songs. Think del.icio.us for iTunes.

I've found these scripts have greatly aided my music listening experience. This is freeware, under the Creative Commons license. The scripts and bit more detail about the project can be found in this post on my website.

[robg adds: Since I'm a Butler user, I contacted Peter Maurer and asked if he could "genericize" these scripts. He could and he did; you can download the generic scripts right here (12KB). I had success using these in Butler as AppleScript actions assigned to a hot key. They should also work, perhaps with some modification, with LaunchBar.]
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A set of AppleScripts to tag songs 'on the fly' in iTunes
Authored by: wyntir on Jan 25, '06 10:24:35AM
I wrote a little Applescript Studio app back in the day to deal with tagging iTunes songs in the "Comments" field, CommonTater. I've been meaning to update it for a while. Maybe someday.

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TuneTags
Authored by: Krioni on Jan 25, '06 11:35:45AM
I wrote an AS Studio app called TuneTags quite a while ago. I haven't gotten around to writing up Quicksilver scripts for it, but it wouldn't be hard. Glad to see someone wrote scripts in this form. Too bad they mark the tags in a different format, which means they won't work together. I wrote to Chris to see if we can fix that.

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A set of AppleScripts to tag songs 'on the fly' in iTunes
Authored by: Serj on Jan 26, '06 07:45:31AM

Very useful ! Thanks Chris !



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A set of AppleScripts to tag songs 'on the fly' in iTunes
Authored by: dwipal on Jan 26, '06 10:46:14AM

I had written some applescripts to manage tags in iTunes Songs. They can let you add/remove tags from multiple songs simultaneously, without affecting the remaining tags.

You can find them at http://www.dwipal.com/itunes.htm

D.



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