Photo: djtechtools.com
Photo: djtechtools.com

What’s the point of spending big bucks on a computer if it can’t solve problems for you and make your life better? Sometimes, there are so many software glitches I start to wonder if it wouldn’t be better to toss the computer and go old school.

But, that would just be crazy.

Despite the headaches technology can drop on us, the benefits still outweigh any of the problems. AppleScripts, for instance, is a perfect example of that.

AppleScripts lets you automate your work processes so that you can accomplish a number of things with a few clicks. What might take an hour or more, like finding album artwork using Google or altering tag text throughout your library, can take a mere matter of minutes with this program. Of course, you have to be using a Mac in order to benefit from it.

DJs do a lot of organizational tasks that we probably would rather not spend too much time on. That’s the beauty of this system. It does the work, so we’re left with a whole lot of time to do whatever we feel is more important.

You can set AppleScripts up to add comments to existing tags, copy, switch or combine tags, move the BPM information around, and lots more. Check out the details of how you can use it to maximize your DJ time here.