The application iTunes Control is an add-on for Apple’s iTunes software. It mainly adds two functions to iTunes, the first is a customizable on screen display of the track that is currently playing and the second are more than 20 hotkeys that make it easier to run iTunes in the background.
The on screen display is displaying information about the current song for several seconds. The position can be configured as can most other options like the font, the information that are displayed and the transparency of the display. The on screen display is not really appealing to me, it distracts to much and I’m not someone who needs to know those information about each song playing.
The hotkeys however make this iTunes add-on worthwhile. They can be used to pause and mute songs, play the previous or next one, turn the volume down or up, rate songs and set a sleep timer. It’s pretty useful if you consider that there are no global shortcuts for iTunes by default.
Itunes Control can be a great asset if you use iTunes regularly to listen to your music collection. It does not make that much sense to users who use it only to transfer music to and from their mp3 player.
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[...] it to the user in the display. Several software players support it as well, for instance the Itunes Control plugin that I wrote about earlier this week. I don’t know a single application however that [...]
Martin, Am I missing something? The link?
Speaking of iTunes, Martin is there any decent windows software out there that can edit multiple video files in a more comprehensive way than the option given by iTunes (you cannot change; video type, show, season, episode ID etc). All I could find were scripts for both Windows and Macs. The mac scripts, capable of filling the gap Apple left while the windows alternative could do very little.
I would appreciate any help given,
Johan
AppleScripts;
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts01.php?page=1#setvideokindofselected
Windows Alternative;
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/index.html#itunes_vidkind