gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » itunes shortcuts http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Take Keyboard Control Of iTunes With iTunes Media Keyshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/12/take-keyboard-control-of-itunes-with-itunes-media-keys/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/12/take-keyboard-control-of-itunes-with-itunes-media-keys/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:31:59 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10483 We covered iTunes Media Keys about two month ago. The software made it possible to control iTunes with some keyboard shortcuts even if iTunes was minimized. The verdict back then was that it did work quite well but missed customization and options. The software developer did promise a new version and released a new version of the software yesterday.

Version 1.2 of iTunes Media Keys adds the option to select the hotkeys to perform the various actions. Several new actions have been added which can be used to rate songs, forward or rewind them.

The software will add the shortcuts as system wide shortcuts. All that needs to be done to use the software is run it in the background.

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The software itself uses less than 1 Megabytes of computer memory while running but about 12 Megabytes of virtual memory, still acceptable for heavy iTunes users. The software requires an installation of the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5. Should run fine on most Microsoft operating systems.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/12/take-keyboard-control-of-itunes-with-itunes-media-keys/feed/ 6 Control iTunes Playback With Shortcutshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/control-itunes-playback-with-shortcuts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/control-itunes-playback-with-shortcuts/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:25:58 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8532 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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