Reset Plays no longer available?

Script Editor is an application on Mac computers for editing AppleScript scripts.

A script is a program that is supplied in plain text, that you could potentially edit to change its behaviour, or just examine to see what it does.

See LastPlayedNever for the Windows version of this script.

If you've installed iTunes 12.7 there is now a Reset button in the multi-track Get Info dialog on the Details tab, so the scripting workaround is only needed if you also want to reset the skip count and the last played and skipped dates which iTunes doesn't change.

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If you want to reset the plays for a batch of tracks then here is a short AppleScript to replace the missing reset plays feature. In addition it clears any skips, or bookmark position and the last played and skipped dates. You can comment out any of the actions that you don't want.

Copy and paste into the script editor, save it as LastPlayedNever in ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts. Select one or more tracks and call the script from the scripts menu in iTunes.

-- LastPlayedNever - V1.0 - © Steve MacGuire - 2016-05-18

tellapplication "iTunes"

ifselection is not {} then

setmySelection to selection

repeat with aTrackinmySelection

setplayed countofaTrack to 0

set played dateofaTracktomissing value

set skipped countofaTrack to 0

set skipped dateofaTracktomissing value

ifaTrack is bookmarkable then set bookmarkofaTrack to 0

end repeat

end if

end tell

tt2

How do you do this on a PC?

What's a script editor? This sounds useful, but with all due respect, i can't make heads or tails of what any of it means.

As usual with iTunes, the feature is still there, only creatively hidden in a new place. Open the Get Info window (select the track and type Command-I). Near the bottom, you'll see the play count, and adjacent to that, a Reset button.

As far as I can tell, "skips" are no longer being tracked. But who knows.

Richard, the 'new place' you mention has always been there. The bulk track reset is gone. I'm sure most people would agree, Apple needs to put that back as no one has time to reset plays on single songs. Reset a group of fifty or reset fifty one at a time.

But the complexities of play counts really don't come into play (see what I did there), as it's a simple 'reset to zero'. They did the same thing a couple upgrades ago and then brought it back in a minor update. It's also happened before with "check for duplicates" and a few other items, too.

Hi Allen,

As shown in tt2's screenshot above, the Scripts menu is identified by a little scroll symbol that appears up at the top of the screen between Window and Help, but only after you've installed something in the folder ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts.

You may need to create this folder, if it doesn't exist. Start by opening the Library folder: go to the Finder, tap on the Go menu, then hold down the Option (or Alt) key, which will cause Library to appear in the menu that drops down. From there you can find a subfolder called iTunes and make a new folder called Scripts inside there.

Cheers

Thanks Richard. 🙂

You can also run the script directly from the Script Editor if you don't want to bother messing around inside the ~/Library folder. I just tried it now on a new system and I had a hard time doing it from the Save dialog in Script Editor. In the end I gave up and put the file on my desktop, then used Finder to make the folders and move the script into the correct place.

tt2

Awesomeness in a terse little scrip. Awesomeness is You, TuringTest2. Terse TuringTest2 Scrip= T4? ;-) Mil Grazie and Gratitude! Very annoying when a feature is (re)moved. What we wouldn't do without the persistent programming capable folks!? Best, ME

Where is "call the script from the scripts menu in iTunes" found/located in iTunes 12.6.1.25? (Need step-by-step

directions, please.)

Ahhh! Found it and script works. Thanks to all.

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You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

Prego. Glad you've found it useful. 🙂

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