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I listen to music while I work, and it can be tedious to have to locate iTunes to turn my music on/off, which I have to do often. I want to setup shortcuts so I can start/stop my music no matter what application I'm currently in.
I've seen that OSX lets you create application shortcuts, however they don't seem to be working for me for iTunes. I've tried to create a shortcut named 'Play', which matches the name of the command in the iTunes menu exactly, yet when I use the shortcut I just get a standard warning sound from OSX that you get when you're trying to do something that you cannot do.
EDIT: I have found that I can create a shortcut for the 'Stop' command, just not 'Play'. And the 'Stop' shortcut I've created only works when iTunes is the application in focus. So now I'm even more confused.
Here's my shortcut:
And here's the iTunes menu:
Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Or is there another way to go about this?
Thanks for the Alfred tip! I have been using an app called Synergy to control iTunes using hotkeys, but apparently it is no longer compatible with High Sierra and/or iTunes 12.7, as it now refuses to run and crashes on startup. Been looking for an alternate solution but didn't really find one, until I ran into your answer. Since I already use Alfred, it was trivial to create a workflow duplicating the functionality that I used to get using the Synergy app. – Donald Burr – 2017-09-27T05:57:42.003
I'm not using a Mac keyboard, and F8 isn't working. I tried KeyRemap4MacBook's event viewer and when I press F8 it shows that fn-F8 is occurring. Is there a reason this isn't working to play/pause the music? Also, is there a place where the shortcut fn-F8 is set up and can be changed? Mostly I'd just like to see if that shortcut is still in place, since fn-F8 doesn't seem to be working for me. – Nic Foster – 2013-04-10T18:39:34.650
The special F-keys don't work on many keyboards by default, but you can use KeyRemap4MacBook to add them for some keyboards. – Lri – 2013-04-11T04:09:23.527