Do you rate your tracks in iTunes? Ever find it a slight pain to swap back over to iTunes while working on something important just to rate a playing track? Here’s how to set up global hotkeys to rate a track from anywhere (Windows XP or newer). Like Win+Alt+1 for one star, Win+Alt+2 for two, etc.
- Get the Tools
Have a master AutoHotkey hotkey file and set PowerShell to autoload my little iTunes.ps1 library on PowerShell startup. With these two it makes it real easy to assign hotkeys to various iTunes commands.
- Add the AutoHotkey Lines
What enables this line to be so simple is that there is a itPlaylist function in the above iTunes.ps1 file that gets auto loaded as part of step 1.
; Rate the currently playing song 1 to 5 stars with Win+Alt+#
#!1:: Run powershell -command (itunes).CurrentTrack.Rating = 20,,Hide
#!2:: Run powershell -command (itunes).CurrentTrack.Rating = 40,,Hide
#!3:: Run powershell -command (itunes).CurrentTrack.Rating = 60,,Hide
#!4:: Run powershell -command (itunes).CurrentTrack.Rating = 80,,Hide
#!5:: Run powershell -command (itunes).CurrentTrack.Rating = 100,,Hide
That’s it! Then with just one keystroke you can rate the current song from any app without switching over to iTunes. The full script: MediaKeys.ahk
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