Comments on: iTunes Keyboard Shortcuts and Quicksilver

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:49:28 +0000

Hi,

just wanted to say thank you for these helpfull tipps!

Alex

By: Scott McDaniel

Scott McDaniel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:44:45 +0000

Hey MeatZMrdr,

That’s awesome I’ll try that out soon.

Thanks
Scott

By: MeatZMrdr

MeatZMrdr — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:23:59 +0000

Thanks for tip!
I added two new scipts to the iTunes scripts folder that came with the itunes plug in (ctrl click >> Actions >> Reveal). Vol Up and Vol Down, and assigned them to F13 and F14. Each one adjusts the itunes vol by 20% without adjusting my mac or stereo volume.

I’ll paste them here if anyone wants to use them:
Vol Up:
tell application “System Events” to if (application processes whose name is “iTunes”) is not {} then ¬
tell application “iTunes”
set stored_Vol to (get sound volume)
set sound volume to (stored_Vol * 1.2)
end tell

Vol Down
tell application “System Events” to if (application processes whose name is “iTunes”) is not {} then ¬
tell application “iTunes”
set stored_Vol to (get sound volume)
set sound volume to (stored_Vol * 0.8)
end tell

By: educe me » Quicksilver is My New Best Mac Friend

educe me » Quicksilver is My New Best Mac Friend — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:48:32 +0000

[…] Tonight I was searching the web in an attempt to find out how to get a keyboard shortcut for iTunes in order to skip to the next song without my having to be on the application itself. I came across this post on Scott McDaniel’s blog and gave Quicksilver a try. […]

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:05:58 +0000

I was doing a search on how to get iTunes keyboard shortcuts to do the exact things you write about (next song, etc., while working in another app) and came across this post. I had Launchbar installed, but I didn’t want to pay to register it and, having read your review and others, I downloaded QS.

I’ve since removed LB in favor of QS.

Thank you for your post!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:42:00 +0000

Actually, Growl comes with an app in the extras directory called GrowlTunes. If you drag that prog into your applications folder, it will automatically show the titles and artwork any time a new song starts in iTunes. It will obviously use the theme Growl is configured with. You should list it with your startup items also so it will automatically run.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:03:58 +0000

The only thing is that the current song notifier doesn’t use Growl.
And the actual theme looks crappy.
Is there any way to change it? I love especially the “Music Video” notifier in Growl for that kind of purpose.

By: QuickSilver, iTunes, Mail en NeoOffice » Wytse

QuickSilver, iTunes, Mail en NeoOffice » Wytse — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:56:26 +0000

[…] Leuk hoor een gratis Office pakket maar het opstarten duurt zo lang. Vandaag een beetje wezen surfen en via via er achter gekomen hoe krachtig QuickSilver wel niet is. Tuurlijk, apps openen enzo deed ik al wel. Maar dingen zoals ‘Append to‘ ‘Previous Song‘ ‘Email to‘ e.d. maken het programma nog een stuk aantrekkelijker. Niet eerst de app openen om dan nog eens te doen wat je wilt doen. Hell, via QuickSilver skip je je muziek nog sneller dan met je remote. Het enige lastige is nu om het (nu het voor mij nog zo nieuw is) ook echt aan te leren. Want dat je dan een stuk productiever bent is mij wel duidelijk. […]

By: Serge

Serge — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:13:51 +0000

Hey

great stuff on your site…
quick question: do you know where the artwork is stored if anywhere when quicksilver shows it? It’s a bit frustrating to see the artwork but not be able to put it in iTunes if it isn’t there ( as it seems to me that it does display some artwork when it isn’t there in iTunes.. though haven’t seen any consistency there…)

thx

By: Scottk’s Blog » Qucksilver/iTunes Hot Keys

Scottk’s Blog » Qucksilver/iTunes Hot Keys — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:02:29 +0000

[…] Quicksilver/iTunes Hot keys […]

By: Scott McDaniel

Scott McDaniel — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:46:43 +0000

Yeah I did look at Synergy and it was cool, my main reason for using Quicksilver was that it did an decent job without having yet another memory resident program running all the time.

I might have to look at it again though because Quicksilver has been crashing on me since the last 2 beta releases.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:29:29 +0000

Have you looked at Synergy?

By: Dan Mauch

Dan Mauch — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:23:43 +0000

I just have an improvement on the very last thing you mentioned about re-displaying the track name. The iTunes plugin also includes a “Show Playing Track” command, which can be hotkeyed. I like to hotkey this for manual use, rather than leave the notifications on for interruptions while i’m working.

Glad to see others are realizing the power of quicksilver though!