Sometimes playlists and albums aren’t enough to keep my tunes organized. I like prefixes. They let me keep certain songs together without dividing into extra playlists.

What follows is a quick AppleScript I use to add a prefix to all items in a temporary playlist. Note that the script checks to see if each song already has the prefix. If so, it skips that song and goes on to the next. Change the playlist name and prefix as desired.

tell application "iTunes"
	set myPlaylist to some playlist whose name is "tmp"
	set prefix to "Idol5 - "

	set tracklist to every track of myPlaylist

	repeat with eachtrack in tracklist
		set tname to name of eachtrack
		set checkoff to offset of prefix in tname
		if (checkoff is 0) then
			set cname to the prefix & name of eachtrack
			set the name of eachtrack to cname
		end if
	end repeat
end tell