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Purge your Music Collection with iTunes Smart Playlists

22 May 2009

Make smart use of iTunes Smart Playlists and the Skip Count to help you weed through your library for songs you don’t really listen to or songs you should check out.

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Batch Track Renaming in iTunes using AppleScripts

In: Mac OS X Techniques

19 May 2009

Use AppleScripts to automate the task of adding track numbers, capitalizing track names, and removing artist and album information from the front of track names.

The scripts used in this video are from Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes collection. In particular, I used:

Remove n Characters From Front or Back
Number Prefix to Track Number
Proper English Title Capitalization

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Working with CD TEXT in iTunes

In: Mac OS X Techniques

14 May 2009

You can now burn CD TEXT from iTunes, but can you read CD TEXT?
Only if you download this free plugin from Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes.
You can also submit CD TEXT info to the CDDB online and retrieve the track names from any other computer, but be sure to allow 48 hours for the database to [...]

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Mac OS X Printer Auto Quit

In: Mac OS X Techniques

24 Apr 2009

As lovely as they are, sometimes you want unused icons to go away from your dock. If your printer application doesn’t close after the print jobs complete, check the Auto Hide menu item.