iTunes: populating a play list based on text file contents

Hi,

There isn't a process to do that automatically. iTunes can read playlists in a couple of different formats, but they all have to include the full path to each track in question. I presume the songs already exist in the library? If so I could potentially write a script that would analyse the library make a list of all <Artist> <Song Name> pairs, then read in your CSV file and if it finds a match add the corresponding track to a playlist. How big is your list? Is this a job you need to do more than once? It might be just as easy to export location information from the library, along with the artist and song name values, hack the data in Excel or similar, and produce an importable playlist that way.

You can find some of my existing scripts at https://samsoft.org.uk/itunes/scripts.asp.

tt2

I write in VBScript, but you can also use C#, JScript, Perl, and presumably anything else that can access a Windows COM interface. You can find some archived documentation here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220813205345/http://www.joshkunz.com/iTunesControl/interfaceIiTunes.html.

There is nothing in the model that supports programmatic access to the Apple Music collection, it is strictly for managing local data. As far as I can tell you will have to look everything up manually. 😕

tt2

You can use Feedback - iTunes - Apple. FWIW Apple Music for Mac also lacks such abilities in its script interface. Apple Music for Windows doesn't support scripting at all. This may not be an area Apple are interested in developing.

tt2