Clean up “Artist - Song Name"-Style Titles
Split song names of the form “The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love” into separate artist and song names.
Sometimes, you’ll encounter a Song Name in iTunes that
incorporates the Artist as well as the Song Name of the track, typically
like this: “The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love.” I don’t care too much for
this arrangement, but I ran into it so often that I wrote a script that
removes the Artist portion to the track’s artist
tag and fixes what’s left in the
name
tag.
The Code
This script acts on the selected tracks. If their Song Names
contain a hyphen flanked by a space on either side ( - ), the script
splits the text on either side of the those three characters, placing
the first part in the artist
tag and
the second part in the name
tag:
property separator : " - " tell application "iTunes" if selection is not {} then repeat with aTrack in selection tell aTrack if name contains separator then set {artist, name} to my text_to_list(name, separator) end if end tell end repeat end if end tell on text_to_list(txt, delim) set saveD to AppleScript's text item delimiters try set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {delim} set theList to every text item of txt on error errStr number errNum set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveD error errStr number errNum end try set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveD return (theList) end text_to_list
This script ...
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