Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Gobal iTunes Hotkeys

As I've been using iTunes more lately (See last blog post) I've found an annoying problem with my Z-Board at home that I cannot seem to get the media keys to act globally.

My Microsoft keyboard at work seems to works perfectly with iTunes (Funnily enough?) but not my Z-Board.

I tried a few global iTunes hotkey programs but the one that ended up working the best/easiest and that I settled with was iTunesControl (http://itunescontrol.com/).

Setup was simple:
Download and install the free program.
Find the blue music note icon in your 'Notification area'.
I like to disable the shit that pops up with the song name so that can be done under the 'Display' tab by selecting the option 'Disable display always'.
Then all you have to do is setup the hotkeys to use the media keys on your keyboard. This is done under the 'Hotkeys' tab.

Now enjoy global song changing!

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