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Aphex5 posted an interesting question on Stack Exchange, asking if there was a way to create playlists for all complete albums in his iTunes library. He then followed up with an answer, the following AppleScript:
-- Creates a playlist for each full album you have in iTunes
-- Set the playlistPrefix and playlistSuffix as desired before running
-- Based on code by Brad Campbell
-- http://www.bradcampbell.com/2009/05/26/make-a-whole-album-playlist-in-itunes/
tell application "iTunes"
set playlistPrefix to "FA: "
set playlistSuffix to ""
-- The "FA: " prefix will help cluster full albums in iTunes' playlists,
-- and is narrow enough to not get in your way when viewing on an iPhone
set albumBuckets to {} as list
set allSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose enabled is true and podcast is false and kind contains "audio") as list
-- Find all partial albums in iTunes
repeat with currentTrack in allSongs
set albumName to album of currentTrack as text
set artistName to artist of currentTrack as text
-- First check for missing values, then perform integer comparison
-- Zero is on the left to force interger type coercion, just in case
if album of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of albumName then
if artist of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of artistName then
if track number of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track number of currentTrack then
if track count of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track count of currentTrack then
if albumBuckets does not contain album of currentTrack then
copy album of currentTrack to the end of albumBuckets
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
end repeat
repeat with currentAlbum in albumBuckets
set albumSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose album is currentAlbum)
set firstTrack to first item of albumSongs
-- Filter album list to act only on full albums
if (count of albumSongs) is equal to track count of first item of albumSongs and 1 is less than (count of albumSongs) then
-- This is a full album, construct the playlist
-- Sort tracks by track number
set albumSongsSorted to {} as list
repeat with i from 1 to (count of albumSongs)
repeat with trk in albumSongs
if track number of trk is i then
set nextSong to trk
copy nextSong to the end of albumSongsSorted
end if
end repeat
end repeat
-- Don't show artist name for compilations
if firstTrack is not compilation then
set playlistNameArtist to artist of firstTrack & " - "
else
set playlistNameArtist to ""
end if
set albumPlaylistName to playlistPrefix & playlistNameArtist & currentAlbum & playlistSuffix
-- Create playlist
if user playlist albumPlaylistName exists then
try
delete tracks of user playlist albumPlaylistName
end try
else
make new user playlist with properties {name:albumPlaylistName}
end if
try
repeat with trk in albumSongsSorted
duplicate trk to user playlist albumPlaylistName
end repeat
end try
end if
end repeat
display dialog "Playlists created! Check iTunes for playlists beginning with '" & playlistPrefix & "'"
end tell
This will traverse the iTunes library and make playlists for every album where the number of tracks matches the total number of tracks for the album; in other words, if you only have one or six songs from a ten-song album, it won't make a playlist. Naturally, this assumes that you have the correct metadata for your tracks to enable this. If you don't, you can go through your albums - one by one, alas - using Doug Adams'
Albumize Selection AppleScript; this script sets both track number and track count tags to the appropriate numbers.