Purpose

To produce an html page with a detailed listing of album information and artwork for all selected iTunes music items.

Here’s a script I hacked together from bits and pieces of Doug Adams’ excellent Applescript work. My modifications are inelegant, but got the job done for my purposes. The script can be pretty easily tweaked (with just a little scripting experience) to many ends. PLEASE NOTE: this script is just a snippet that might prove useful to some. It is not a final product and I cannot offer support with it.

Demo:

See an example of this script’s output.

Installation:

1. Download and unarchive.
2. Copy Export HTML list of Selected Albums [w/ images].scptd to: ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts . If the Scripts folder is not already present, create it and place the Export HTML list of Selected Albums [w/ images].scptd file in there.

Usage:

1. Open up iTunes. You should now see a script icon in the menu bar as pictured below.

2. Select a playlist directly or select multiple albums/songs from any playlist/source.
3. With your selection highlighted, click the scripts menu icon and then select “Export HTML list of Selected Albums [w/ images]” from the menu.
4. iTunes will ask you where you want to save this html index file. Navigate to the folder where the images and html index file should be saved, and click OK.

Thats it. iTunes will begin by writing the HTML file text. Then it will extract the album art from each unique album and place it in the folder chosen in step 4. A window will appear that monitors the artwork extraction progress.