iTunes 9 Mini Player - Shortcut (How To)

I became accustomed to using CMD+Z to switch iTunes into Mini Player and normal view. Not sure why I started using CMD+Z (I'm pretty sure it was the original shortcut before it got changed..?).

Anyway, in previous iTunes versions, the green button would take it to and from Mini Player. So, to get the CMD+Z shortcut to work, I created a shortcut in Keyboard (in System Preferences) for iTunes, and assigned the menu title "Zoom" to CMD+Z.

Well, that obviously doesn't work in iTunes 9 since the green button, or "Zoom" now just does what the green button does for everything else in OS X. So to get around that, all you have to do is add two new shortcuts. One for Switch to Mini Player and one for Switch from Mini Player and assign them both to CMD+Z (or whatever you prefer).

Thought I'd share that if anyone else was in the same boat as me.

Eidorian said:

Shift + Cmd + M is the new shortcut under iTunes 9. Not that you can't change it to Cmd + Z.

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Yeah, but it isn't a very easy shortcut. Can't do it with one hand. I find CMD+Z quick and easy, but each to their own.

It isn't the shortcut change that I was really going on about, was the fact that the zoom button doesn't change it to the Mini Player, so anyone who did have their own shortcut for Mini Player might not have been aware that the menu title has changed.

Eidorian said:

The new shortcut is hard.

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Haha - if you just clicked on a song and want to go into Mini Player, you'd have to take your hand off the trackpad or mouse and hit all three keys.

My left hand always stays on the keyboard, so something like CMD+TAB to iTunes, CMD+Z to maximise it and then I can scroll through other songs instantly.

As I said, each to their own, but I find it more efficient that way - don't have to move my left hand at all really, and my right hand just stays on the trackpad ready to scroll or move the cursor.