Control iTunes from Launchy

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Added On: 21st Jan 08
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Using Launchy – The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows, you can control iTunes with various commands like “rate”, next album, and even advanced tag management. [more]

AppendToComment.js

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Added On: 20th Jan 08
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This script adds chosen text to the end of track comments for the songs selected. It does not erase or overwrite existing comment text, and it will not add the same text that is already in the comment field. [more]

Incrementally Back up your Library to CD or DVD


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Added On: 19th Jan 08
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Create a data DVD or CD to restore your iTunes library – playlists, purchases and all – when that hard drive finally breaks! [more]

iTunes Library Updater

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Added On: 18th Jan 08
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Synchronise the iTunes library with all songs in your “My Music” (or user-defined) folder. It will run through the folder and add any songs that don’t appear in the database already.

As well as this “Add New Media” ability, it has options to “Clean orphaned entries”, for which you can specify what directory the file must be in to be deleted. [more]

CreateAlbumPlaylists.js

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Added On: 17th Jan 08
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Build a playlist for each album in your library, as a User Playlist (not an autoplaylist) in the format “Artist – Album”. [more]

Use iFixCaps to Spell Check Song Names

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Added On: 16th Jan 08
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iFixCaps is a little program which takes the songs you’ve selected within iTunes and spell checks them against MS Word’s dictionnary and at the same time fixes the case to “Sentence case”.

This requires Word (obviously) and .NET Framework 2.0 to be installed on the computer. [more]

Manage Multiple iTunes Libraries on One Computer


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Added On: 15th Jan 08
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Instead of opening iTunes normally, hold down ‘Shift’ as you click the shortcut, keeping it pressed while the application loads. [more]

Tidy Artist List with OneHitWonders.js

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Added On: 14th Jan 08
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Creates a playlist of all the songs in your library which are the only song for their artist. These so-called One-Hit-Wonder tracks are really annoying when they clog up your iTunes or iPod list of artists. [more]

Remove DRM from iTunes Tracks with QTFairUse6 [broken]

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Added On: 13th Jan 08
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Note: Does NOT Work with very latest iTunes – Only up to 7.5.0.* as of this post.

Discuss DRM removal of recent iTunes versions here

Strip the “Digital Rights Management” from your iTunes Music Store downloaded tracks, so you can listen to them on deauthorised computers, or on a non-iPod portable media player. [more]

ClearLyrics.js

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Added On: 12th Jan 08
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This script removes ALL lyrics from ALL songs in your library.
It is not reversible so you will lose all lyrics from all songs in iTunes. This can be useful if you want to add the lyrics from scratch, using a plugin from this website. Just check out the “Lyrics” tag. [more]