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AppleScript Applet for Music

Universal, for macOS 11 and later only. The Music.app has a "Reset" button in the Details panel of each track's Get Info window which will re-initialize some track properties such as Plays and Skips. This script allows the user to choose which of several additional Music.app tags to reset to initialized states, which can be selectively more or less thorough than the Music.app's Reset action. Also see the slightly more aggressive Reset Plays.

Sync library users should note Apple's "Bug-or-Feature" whereby changes to these tags don't always proliferate correctly, if at all.

Action shot:

Reset Tracks in action

You may or may not want to initialize some of the more esoteric track settings.

Latest version:

  • v1.2 October 21, 2025
  • Accommodations for macOS 26/Tahoe
  • Updated nomenclature
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Current v1.2

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Info:

  • This is an Applet
  • works with: Music
  • file format: Application (Applet)
  • Gatekeeper Security: Notarized by Apple
  • current version downloads: 56 | total downloads: 287
  • .dmg download size: 2MB

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