HOW TO Use add–ons for better sound and tagging

Find the folder

Download the scripts you want from dougscripts.com. Next, put them in /[username]/Library/iTunes/Scripts. On a Mac running a clean installation of macOS Sierra or later, you’ll have to create the folder.

Maintain the library

The ‘Artist — Name Corrector’, ‘List MIAs’, and ‘Super Remove Dead Tracks’ scripts can reconnect items with moved files, tame tags, and find and remove tracks whose files are missing but no longer wanted anyway.

Save the update

Ctrl–click on the album or track title and choose Save. This will update the data for track(s) automatically with the information from the Musicbrainz database. The software works quickly and an album takes just seconds to fix.

See your scripts

Open iTunes and click the script icon to the right of the app’s Help menu. You’ll now see the names of any scripts you’ve put in the Scripts folder. Note that if you want to add new ones, you’ll need to quit and reopen iTunes.

Use your brainz

Musicbrainz Picard can tame even very big iTunes libraries. It scans your entire library for potential issues; if you select a group of tracks and then press Cluster, it will try to identify and group them in album clusters.

Make it boom

Boom3D from Global Delight enables you to create different settings for each of your audio outputs: your Mac’s speakers, external audio device or different kinds of headphones, say. You can also control it with an iOS app.

Start a script

Select the track(s) you want to fix or edit and then run the appropriate item from the Script menu. In this example, we’ve gone for Coverscope, which enables you to get embedded artwork and iTunes cover art in sync.

Scan your selection

If you click your clustered tracks and then on Scan, Musicbrainz will compare them with the information it has in its massive database in an effort to match them. As you can see, there’s quite a lot of missing data here.

Tweak the sound

Each icon on Boom3D’s UI is a preset, and you can adjust the strength of it with the little rotary slider that surrounds each icon. You can also dig into the settings to adjust features such as the surround sound effect.