I’m usually too distracted by other work to remember to kick-off some music in the background. Usually because it’d mean launching iTunes, waiting for it to load, finding a playlist to start, and kicking it off. So here’s a single global hotkey to instantly load iTunes and start playing music. Here’s how: Hotkey: Win+Alt+P Get
Global Hotkeys to Play/Pause/Next iTunes Tracks
(Windows) If your keyboard doesn’t have media keys (like my MacBook or fav Dell keyboard), then its nice to have simple global hotkeys to play/pause a track, move to the next track, and maybe even increase/decrease volume. Below is the script that will assign these keys: Play/Pause: Win+Alt+Space or Win+Alt+Left Next Track: Win+Alt+Right Volume Up:
Global Hotkey to Rate an iTunes Track
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,
