mp3ratingcleaner

mp3RatingCleaner

mp3RatingCleaner moves songs to the trash that you have disliked or given a rating in iTunes.

This does depend on the trash command which can be installed with brew install trash. If you don't want to use the trash command, edit the code to just rm the file instead. However, the trash command allows you to get songs back if anything goes wrong by opening your trash and putting back items.

After running this program, you will have to go into iTunes, sort by rating, and highlight and delete all the 1 star songs (or disliked songs). This only removes the file from the file system and not iTunes.

Usage

You first need to know where your iTunes library is located. This is typically ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.xml. This is not the actual library file, just an XML file that iTunes occasionally updates.

If this program does not work, try opening and closing iTunes a few times to get it to render out this xml file.

To remove all 1 star songs, run

mp3RatingCleaner -itunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.xml -rating 1

To remove all 2 star songs, run

mp3RatingCleaner -itunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.xml -rating 2

To remove all disliked songs, run

mp3RatingCleaner -itunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.xml -disliked

To remove all disliked songs and all 1 star songs, run

mp3RatingCleaner -itunes ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library.xml -rating 1 -disliked

You get the idea.