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Create Universal Keyboard Shortcuts for iTunes

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If you’re a power user and use iTunes at least occasionally, you might find the lack of universal keyboard shortcuts in iTunes a big annoyance. You just can’t control iTunes from other applications using keyboard shortcuts.

iTunesKeys comes to the rescue though, and lets you create custom universal keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes playback. The app also displays song info including artwork near the system tray every time a new song is played, just like Winamp does.

Once you start the application, an icon appears on the system tray. By right clicking and going to Options, you can assign custom global hotkeys for your iTunes. As promised, you can assign system wide hotkey shortcuts for almost anything from play/pause to rating songs, as you can see from the screenshot below:

iTunes Universal Keyboard Shortcuts

I tried it with the latest version of iTunes, and it worked like a charm. Make sure that you have Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework installed. iTunesKeys requires the .NET framework to run.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

September 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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  1. That or you could just use the FoxyTunes firefox plugin that allows full iTunes contol from the bottom of your browser window.

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    23 Oct 08 at 2:04 pm

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  3. You should also consider SkiniTunes. (www.skinitunes.com) I’ve been using it for months, hotkeys, album pop-up, skinnable similar to winamp. Check it out.

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    8 Apr 09 at 12:45 pm

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