If you like to listen to music in iTunes you might have noticed that iTunes does not provide keyboard shortcuts to control the playback when iTunes is running in the background. Other music players like Winamp or AIMP provide that feature which might be interesting for many users.
The developer of iTunes Media Keys released a public alpha version of his software. The software adds global shortcuts which can be used to control the playback in iTunes.
To be more precise it adds four shortcuts that can be used to play / pause, stop and to switch to the next and previous track. The default shortcuts are assigned to [Shift UP, DOWN, RIGHT or LEFT]. It did also recognize a Logitech media keyboard and changed the shortcuts automatically to the media keys instead.
The developer plans to add additional features to his software program like being able to rate songs and better hotkey integration.
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it’s amazing that iTunes still does not have global hotkey support.
while there are plenty of apps out there that do this, i use my hotkey app (Hotkey Master, not freeware) to control iTunes using the winapi sendmessage function. a freeware hotkey app that supports this is HoeKey. i use Hotkey Master because it works well with the extra buttons on my keyboard.
Wow I am really amazed how much publicity my app has gotten. The next release has taken longer then I have thought since I am totally revamping the app. I am very glad to all the people that like my program. It will get better.
thanks is very necesesary for everybody