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Since Spotify doesn’t work with most media keyboards and setting up global keys for menu items doesn’t seem to be possible either, here’s a little floating toolbar you can use to access Previous, Next tracks as well as Play/Pause. … I rally don’t think the need for it will last long, as the service gets more popular -they’ll eventually make it more user friendly I’m sure. So I likely won’t bother to make any improvements – but if I do, I’ll update here. To use Controlify: Download this file .

Repost from a couple years ago…I still love this video.

So, a lot of my work involves clicking back and forth, and it’s a pain to reach for the Remote or keyboard when I want to skip a track in iTunes. … Sadly, that’s not an option in the Logitech software, but launching an application is; so I put together a quick little app to do nothing but play the next track. … If you want to build your own, open Applescript Editor and paste the following in, then save it as an application. tell application “iTunes” next track end tell Or you can simply download my version, here .

– web: scottmcdaniel.org tell application “iTunes” set rating of current track to 100 end tell tell application “System Events” – Get the frontmost process set active_proc to name of the first process whose frontmost is true – Open Last.fm window activate application “Dock” tell process “Dock” click UI element “Last.fm” of list 1 end tell delay 0.5 – Click on the relevant menu item and close the window tell process “Last.fm” click menu item “Love” of menu 1 of menu bar item “Tools” of menu bar 1 end tell – Restore frontmost process set frontmost of process active_proc to true end tell tell application “System Events” set isRunning to (count of (every process whose bundle identifier is “com…. GrowlHelperApp”)) > 0 end tell if isRunning then tell application id “com…. GrowlHelperApp” set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {“iRate”} set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬ {“iRate”} register as application ¬ “iRate” all notifications allNotificationsList ¬ default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬ icon of application “iTunes” notify with name ¬ “iRate” title ¬ “iRate” description ¬ “This track has been iRated as 5 star & sent to Twitter!”

BUT – if you use QuickSilver or some other quick launch type app, even Spotlight (and again, you *should* be if you are at all productivity oriented), then here’s an easy little solution for you. Basically I’ve created 5 small applications that you can use to rate the currently playing track with minimal keystrokes: Open your launcher (cmd-space – for example) type ‘i5′ to rate the current track as 5 star.

…GrowlHelperApp” set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {“iRate”} set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬ {“iRate”} register as application ¬ “iRate” all notifications allNotificationsList ¬ default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬ icon of application “iTunes” notify with name ¬ “iRate” title ¬ “iRate” description ¬ “This track has been iRated as 5 star” application name “iRate” end tell end if