Swap Song Name and Artist
Correct that irritating problem of’ song names and artist names being reversed.
The first time you find a track in iTunes that somehow has gotten its Song Name and Artist reversed, you open up its Get Info window and do some cutting, copying, pasting, and typing to effect repairs. It’s kind of a drag. When you see the same problem with another track, you begrudgingly do the swap a second time and hope that you won’t have to go through all that again. But when you notice it a third time, don’t lose your temper. Just break out the AppleScript.
The Code
This script gets the text from the name
and artist
properties of each of the selected
tracks—or, if no tracks are selected, all the tracks in the selected
playlist—and swaps them:
tell application "iTunes" -- act on particular tracks or all tracks currently displayed if selection is not {} then set sel to selection else set sel to file tracks of view of front window end if -- loop through each selected track repeat with aTrack in sel tell aTrack set temp1 to (get name) set name to (get artist) set artist to temp1 end tell end repeat end tell
The first thing the script does is determine which tracks the user has selected for swapping. If none are selected, the script acts on all the tracks of the currently selected playlist. In either case, the list of tracks to be acted upon by the script is stowed away in a variable ...
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