Access iTunes Get Info tabs via keyboard

Jan 23, '04 10:43:00AM

Contributed by: stonemtn

The Get Info dialog (highlight a song and hit Command-I) in iTunes implements something that I hadn't seen before, but I hope it's a new Apple UI standard. However, I couldn't get to work in other Apple apps (at least not in Preferences). Regardless, I find it VERY handy to keep my hand on the keyboard and this is yet another way to do so in iTunes:

The different tabs for Summary, Info, Options and Artwork all have shortcut keys that toggle to them: Command-1, Command-2, Command-3 and Command-4.

I hope that more programs implement this structure when they have tabbed dialogs! I suppose first they need to follow Apple's example and implement the standard "first letter of a button is the Command+shortcut key" scheme (in this dialog, Command+N for Next song and Command+P for Previous), but one can home more will follow suit!

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