Number of a song in a playlist

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Number of a song in a playlist

Hi!

I am a professional musician and therefore, I need some special features in my music app

In the Music App for mac I can see the number of a song in a playlist: i.E. song no. 496 in a playlist of 1,096 songs.

In IOS, this app does not display the number of a song in the playlist (i.E. song no. 496 in that particular playlist. So I cannot find Song no. 496 there because I have no orientation. [unless I remember the title, but since I hear several playlists systematically, I cannot remember each specific title])

This is the reason why i still use the iPod classic, because iPod classic can display these special numbers.. But recently, I have some problems with the synchronization of my iPod classic due to its age and extensive use.

Is there en app for IOS which can display these numbers or do I have to bye another iPod?

Posted on Jun 6, 2021 9:01 AM

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turingtest2

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Jun 6, 2021 9:48 AM in response to Thomas Arens

It isn't a feature in iOS. I'm not aware of any third party apps that can access and display more information about music playlists. Are you running on Windows. or macOS? You could potentially use a script to add the playlist index number to the song title, provided any song is only going to be added to one playlist.

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turingtest2

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Jun 7, 2021 4:00 AM in response to Thomas Arens

It may be that there is already something you can use. E.g. https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxtracknameincnum with the pattern [#] [name] might be suitable, as long as you don't have the same song in multiple lists. See also https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxincrementnumbertags. Something like https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxremovenchars could be used to snip off the leading digits at a later date if/when required.

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Thomas Arens Author

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Jun 7, 2021 2:15 AM in response to turingtest2

Thank you for your answer!

I am running macOS 10.15.7.

I am dealing with this problem for almost 20 years now.

Every once in a while, I try to contact apple for this, but this is the first time I get an answer.

I am not able to write a script, to solve this problem, nor I am willing to learn that, because I love composing music too much.

Furthermore, there are occasionally songs appearing in multiple playlists.

If you are curious about why I'm using these long playlists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGLFyoxJ0c and https://thomasarens-en.lhten.com/SYSTEM/Downloaded_Files/PDF/Chromatic_Tempo.pdf and https://thomasarens-en.lhten.com

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Thomas Arens Author

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Jun 7, 2021 11:53 AM in response to turingtest2

thank you turingtest2! I saved your answer for later use. This is definitely a solution. But I probably will not use it right now, because i am too busy with other things. Furthermore, I renounce digging into scripts as long as it is not absolutely necessary.

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Number of a song in a playlist

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