Control iTunes from any application via the keyboard...

Mar 29, '04 10:11:00AM

Contributed by: olnorth

I have been looking for a way to control iTunes from the keyboard quickly and easily. I found the freeware app X-Tunes (at the bottom of the page), which does the job perfectly [136KB download].

[robg adds: If you use iTunes but haven't installed some sort of global controller for it, you're missing out on some great ease of use -- controlling song, volume, and play/pause without moving a mouse or activating iTunes is wonderfully convenient. I thought we'd mentioned X-Tunes here before, but a search proved me wrong. I used to use this app all the time for controlling iTunes; now it's part of what I let Butler do for me. I imagine there are many other ways of doing this; this older hint was one solution, and I think others will probably be listed in the comments.]

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