Genre Tagging Shortcuts

[Santos10]

Is there any way that I can tag my songs with shortcuts for ex:

If I press 1 while the track is playing it will tag: Tribal House

2 - Tech House
3 - D&B

(doesn't necessarily have to be that exact key) but is there anyway i can do such a thing??

[MisterMoleyMole]

Now that would be amazing only prob is i think its doubtful, but heres hoping

[Santos10]

ive been searching around and I found this: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/vie...php?f=2&t=4436

but idk if you can write a script using the script they wrote but for itunes....

[Santos10]

okay I got this thing to work: by the way its for Itunes

First I made scripts that would change the song selected to the genre you type (made about 9 scripts)

then in system preferences I made shortcuts for the scripts in Itunes to run hence the quick edit

now i just click command+1 turns genre to house
command+2 turns genre to tech house
and so on....

and it works flawlessly

[MisterMoleyMole]

booo i really dont like itunes. I find it really sluggish on a pc, prob not the same on a mac, but i'm not rich

[rdej47]

Hey santos could you post those scripts, I was just looking for the exact same thing.

[Santos10]

open up applescript editor the script is:

tell application "iTunes"
set current track's genre to "House"
end tell


the word in the "quotes" is what you would switch to what you want...

Next you open up sytem preferences > Click keyboard > Click Application Shortcuts > click the + sign >select itunes > write down the exact scripts name and the shortcut you want

for ex: i named my script Genre - House.... so you would write Genre - House and my keyboard shortcut for that is command+1

[Karlos Santos]

Santos this is very nice indeed.

Got the Script working fine if i run it in Applescript but my shortcut does not work.

Done exactly as you describe. Is there something i need to do to get the script commands working in iTunes. The script logo doesnt show in itunes?

[Santos10]

If you dont see the scripts you want to do this:

In Finder, go to your Home/Library/iTunes folder.
In this folder look for a folder named "Scripts", and if it does not exist create it.
By copying Applescript scripts inside this folder you make scripts available in iTunes Script menu.

Any other questions let me know

[Karlos Santos]

Brilliant. Done. Forgot about the Scripts folder.

This is mega helpful.