active_tunes

DESCRIPTION:

Automated ID3 tagging for iTunes on a Mac, based on AppleScript. Alter for your needs. Features intelligent genre tagging.

FEATURES:

  • Get tracks and albums from library and edit any ID3 field, ad-hoc

  • Script your tagging preferences and easily apply them to newly imported tracks

  • Gets genre information from Last.fm API

    • Can use the grouping field to fill in most popular Last.fm tags, which might look like “britpop indie madchester rock alternative british indie-rock alternative-rock manchester 80s”. This allows you to search across your library for stuff like “alt-country” or “minimal-techno” - a much more powerful and automated system for genre metadata

INSTALL:

AD-HOC TAGGING IN IRB:

require 'active_tunes'
album = its.first.full_album   # its gets an array of selected tracks in iTunes
album.compilation = false
album.number_tracks

STANDARDIZE YOUR TAGGING:

  • edit tag function in track.rb and album.rb

  • need to bundle shell script to launch this process

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Mac OS X

  • rb-appscript

  • active_mac

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyleft © 2009 Robert Matei

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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