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Rip These To My Mobile

Copies files of selected tracks to an SD card mounted on the desktop. Tested with the Motorola E6801 phone. May work with other devices.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/347
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Ken Tidwell
• posted: August 11, 2005
• total downloads: 2678
• zip download size: 56.6K

Color File Labels of Tracks v1.1

This script will set the label color of the files of selected tracks to a different color based on the kind of track. Regular AAC = red, Protected AAC = orange, AIFF = yellow, Apple Lossless = green, MP3 - blue, WAV = purple, QT movie = gray.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/340
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: June 8, 2005
• latest version downloads: 2683 | total downloads: 3047
• zip download size: 106.8K

Text List of Music Folder Files

This script creates a text file listing the paths of the audio files in your Music folder (or any other folder you select) sorted alphabetically. Since it uses Spotlight, Mac OS X 10.4 or better is required.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/342
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: June 3, 2005
• total downloads: 2402
• zip download size: 255.3K

Search for Album's Files

This script will search your Spotlight-indexed drives for audio files that contain a user-entered Album name. Useful for tracking down files you may think are missing. Mac OS 10.4 or better required; Spotlight indexing required.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/339
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• posted: May 22, 2005
• total downloads: 1606
• zip download size: 151K

Delete m3u Files

This script will locate .m3u files ("Internet Audio Playlists") and allow you to select which ones you'd like to delete. Requires Mac OS 10.4 or better; your system should be indexed with Spotlight.

? I am an eMusic user and Previews from their collection come down as .m3u files. After a lot of previewing, these .m3u's tend to pile up. This script is a simple way of removing them.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find a correlation between specific ".m3u" files and their associated tracks in iTunes. So you may also wish to try the script Delete 'Continuous' Tracks which removes tracks in iTunes of the kind "MPEG audio stream", which are tracks associated with the ".m3u" files.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/337
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: May 20, 2005
• total downloads: 2018
• zip download size: 105.1K

Export Via QuickTime v1.2

Open and export the files of the selected iTunes tracks to a user-chosen folder using one of QuickTime Pro's audio formats: 3GPP, AIFF, AVI, Hinted Movie, μLaw, MPEG-4,QuickTime Media Link, QuickTime Movie, System 7 Sound, and Wave. Provides some basic error checking. QuickTime Pro required.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/284
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: May 11, 2005
• latest version downloads: 2647 | total downloads: 3733
• zip download size: 168.5K

Bring Out Yer Dead v1.1

This script applet will allow you to select a "dead" file track in iTunes (designated with the (!)) and attempt to locate a file using Spotlight that corresponds to the selected track's Song Name, Artist, and Album, and then allow you to replace the "dead track" with a file from the search results. All tag data is preserved from the original track selected and copied to the newly added track.

Note: I consider this script to be just an experiment using Spotlight technology. iTunes already has the ability to try to locate disassociated files when you double-click a "dead track". Use with caution, see the "Read Me".

If you use Kevin Wojniak's Spodlight to index your iPod, Bring Out Yer Dead can copy a file from iPod if found.

(Also see the application Music Folder Files Not Added.)

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/334
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: May 11, 2005
• latest version downloads: 7596 | total downloads: 7645
• zip download size: 132.3K

Files to Folder Scripts

This is a collection of two scripts: Alias Files to Folder... which creates an alias of each file of the selected iTunes tracks in a user-selected location, and Copy Files to Folder... which will copy the files of the selected iTunes tracks to a user-selected location.

These scripts are based on Move Files to Folder... by Plaidcow Solutions.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/332
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Derrick Bass
• latest version posted: April 22, 2005
• total downloads: 5903
• zip download size: 105.8K

Convert and Export v1.1

This script converts the files of the selected tracks in iTunes using an encoder of your choice on-the-fly (restoring your Preferences-set encoder afterwards). The newly converted files are then moved to a new location of your choice, and their tracks removed from iTunes.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/327
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by Doug Adams
• latest version posted: April 17, 2005
• latest version downloads: 7890 | total downloads: 7971
• zip download size: 126.3K

Whatever to WAV

Drag any type of iTunes-compatible audio file to this "droplet" and it will use iTunes to convert it to WAV. Neither the original nor converted file will be added to iTunes.

Info:
• short url: http://dougscripts.com/311
• build type: Plain AppleScript
• written by John Klimeck
• posted: February 9, 2005
• total downloads: 2250
• zip download size: 60.6K