The extra track is the digital booklet included when you purchase the album from iTunes
I am wondering whether Apple is otherwise providing information about the existence of a digital booklet and whether this can be queried at this stage of the script. In those cases, the number of total tracks on an album could possibly be reduced by 1.
The query is done via iTunes, which have usually the same contents as AM, but sometimes it is slightly different. Usually as Ouargui says a booklet or interview or similar. There is very little to do about this, as mp3tag web scripts are fairly simple, first a query part and then a processing part. It is not possible to do a subsequent query on the query.
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I was just tweaking the scripts for my needs (Thanks again for all your work developing both scripts) and I came across what I think is a small bug (very small - I expect it doesn't impact most sessions and even then most people will not even notice.) That said, I thought it was worth calling out, in the interest of giving back.
Using the itunes script, as an example. The script drops the "(Remastered)" qualifier at the end of album titles, at least for the purpose of the album tag. It does so using this code:
SayUntil "(Remastered)" |
Based on what I am seeing I suspect this will most likely leave a space at the end of the updated album title. So, if you have an album titled: "My Fav Album (Remastered)" the script will tag the track with the album title: "My Fav Album ". Notice the space at the end. An update to the script:
SayUntil " (Remastered)" |
should address this issue. That said, I think the same approach is taken in a few places in both the itunes and apple music scripts, so it would be worth a scrub. Again - this is a very edge case bug that most people will never notice and for existing tracks that have already been updated any errors can easily corrected with a batch action using the trim function, but, I thought it was worth calling out for the ocd users (which I expect may be higher than average in a forum that focuses on metadata completion) like me.
Cheers!
Is there another update for this script? All it's showing me is iTunesCountryID and nothing else. No pictures, no composers — nothing.
I can confirm this for the Apple script since today, the ITunes api script is still working.
script not working (show only 'ItunesCountryID'
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Thanks for this. Can you share the change? I use a few scripts tweaked for my needs and I'm hoping I can just add/update an line or two and get them working again.
I downloaded your script, and I'm still only getting iTunesCountryID and nothing else.
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Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (response requires 20 chars min) 
It is still not working here. Only result is iTunesCountryID.
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Looks like they might still be making changes on Apple's end - still no luck.
You'll have to somehow replace "1441813799" with the correct catalog ID. Using 1441813799 will only allow you to use this script with that specific album.
Added new version for you guys
Apple Music for Mp3Tag 2.2.zip (35.5 KB)
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Yes! You fixed it! Thank you so much! You're a godsend.
I am in Chinese mainland and am using the latest Apple Music script. But I can only get the music library information from Chinese mainland and cannot get the information from other countries like the US. Is there a way to solve this problem? Thanks.
why release "not found"
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/club-sounds-vol-97/1589465891
https://music.apple.com/de/album/bravo-the-hits-2021/1591631522
itunes script working fine
I've noticed this is happening a lot with iTunes-exclusive albums. They will be perfectly available on the iTunes store, but you can no longer access them on Apple Music. I'm not sure what's going on. I'm just glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this.
If the releases are not on Apple Music, they will not be found. Some are only on iTunes, and some are only on Apple Music. Also there are releases which are available only for a certain time, especially collection releases, so while they are on Apple Music when they were new, a year later they may not be available anymore. Different countries or regions may have different availability as well.
To me this is one of the biggest achilles of streaming music, so a reason why I still buy physical media or download downloadable content for keeping.
But I rely on both Apple Music and iTunes for tagging (I prefer to download all of my music because I dislike streaming), so it's really frustrating to come across a cool album that I can't edit completely because I can only rely on one source of tagging information and not both.