Find & Replace Text within iTunes

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Find & Replace Text within iTunes

Anyone aware of a way to script a *Find & Replace* command inside iTunes? I want to mass rename individual songs which I track by putting the playlists they are contained in in their Comment boxes (I have quite a few playlists).

Thanks.

1.6 Ghz PPC G5, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 5G 30GB Video iPod, iTunes 7.6 (29)

Posted on Jan 28, 2008 5:40 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 28, 2008 5:42 PM in response to Trayce Conkle

Let me rephrase that--I don't want to rename the songs, just the playlist names that are in each song's Comment box.

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Answer 2

smithrj

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Jan 28, 2008 5:45 PM in response to Trayce Conkle

Double click on them and delete the name and rename them.

Ray

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Answer 3

Jan 28, 2008 5:48 PM in response to smithrj

I know that--I have hundreds of songs to go through and almost as many playlists. I don't want to do them all manually.

Thanks.

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iBod

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Jan 28, 2008 5:48 PM in response to Trayce Conkle

Hi,

Something like [this|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=4#searchreplacet agtext]?

Out of curiosity, can I ask why you have the playlist name in the comments? (I ask as if you right click on a track and look under the "Show in Playlist" option it will show you all the playlists the track is present in.)

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Answer 5

Jan 28, 2008 5:59 PM in response to iBod

Thanks iBod. I have the comments showing in the column view so I can visually see if I have listened to particular songs recently in recent playlists. I like to kind of duplicate the way I used to burn CDs and cassettes and take them with me, and keep a fresh list of the songs I like. It's a way I can pseudo-organize that makes sense to me...maybe no one else haha.

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