How do I find and clear all ticked Stop Times in music tracks?

Question

I have lots of music tracks which have the Stop Time ticked under the Options tab in Get Info. I don't know why they are ticked as I didn't do it, but now I want to clear them all as it causes tunes to stop abruptly in playback. I've looked for a script that would do this, but no luck. If there's no available script, perhaps if I could at least find all of the songs with Stop Time ticked, that would be a start. Does anyone either know of a way to clear all ticked Stop Times, or at least create a playlist of all songs with Stop Time ticked? If anyone knows why Stop Time gets ticked for some songs and not others, that would also be useful information. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

barney97,
Maybe this script in can be of help:
tell application "iTunes"
if selection is not {} then
set sel to selection
repeat with this_track in selection
try
set finish of this_track to 1000
end try
end repeat
display dialog "Done!" buttons {"Thanks"} default button 1 giving up after 5
end if
end tell
Replace the "1000" with the number of seconds of your longest track, compile and run the script. The script tries to set the Stop Time to 1000 seconds. If your tracks are shorter in duration, the Stop times just will be cleared.
Run Script Editor (in ./Applications/Applescript) and copy the script (grey block above) to it.
Click the 'Compile' button and save it as a script in ./Library/iTunes/Scripts.
It will then appear in the Script menu in iTunes.
Next, select all tracks in your Music Library (Command-A) and run the script.
It's not a very elegant solution, but it works.
If anyone knows why Stop Time gets ticked for some songs and not others, that would also be useful information.
I can't tell you that. I've never experienced a phenomenon like that.
Maybe some iTunes related Widget or iTunes supporting application is responsible for that.
Hope this helps.
M
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