How to set all songs in Music app to start playing at a specific time?

Applescript is the best way. Google is your best bet. I found this fairly quickly so can't take credit for it, but I'm sure there are others around, possibly with more advice than I've got time to give you. This plays all the tracks in the playlist "My Playlist" from 90 seconds in for 6 seconds with a 0.5 second delay between tracks, so you just have to put your songs into a playlist called "My Playlist" or change "My Playlist" to the name of one of your playlists. Copy and paste this into a new file in Script Editor and hit the play button on at the top RHS

tell application "Music"
    set trackCount to count of tracks of playlist "My Playlist"
    repeat with i from 1 to trackCount
        play track i of playlist "My Playlist"
        set player position to 90
        repeat until player position ≥ 96
            delay 0.5
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell

Zurarczurx wrote:

If it works you can just run if from AppleScript when you need it (don't forget to save it once it works like you want it) or you can turn it into an app and run it from Applications. Google will help you work out how to do that if you want.

The other approach is to copy the .scpt file into ~/Library/Music/Scripts which lets it show up in an additional scripts menu in Music, making it really easy to use whenever you want it.

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Credit should go to user "adayzone" on StackOverflow where I found it - I just tweaked it a bit. Glad it works.

You can write a Shortcut, Automation or Script to start playing a Playlist at a specific time but if you want each song to start at a specific time (i.e not just play sequentially) unless the spacing between the songs is constant than at some point you're going to have to type in the times.

BTW - how would you do this in Music by manually entering the start time? The Start Time and Stop Time of the song in the Options pane of the song's Info don't do this.

Do you want the song to start playing at a specific time like quarter past three or do you want it to start playing at a point like 1 minute 10 seconds into the song?

The settings in Options does the latter - i.e. if you set the start time to 1:10 it will start playing the song from a point 1 minute 10 seconds into the song.

If it works you can just run if from AppleScript when you need it (don't forget to save it once it works like you want it) or you can turn it into an app and run it from Applications. Google will help you work out how to do that if you want.

Mac Music can only play one song at a time, so there's no way to do this. Why would you want to do it?