iTunes controls for menu- most reliable

flyfish29

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Aug 13, 2004

• #1

Hey, I would like to:

control play, pause, next song as well as change ratings in the main menu bar *which I have a ton of space in as I don't have many things in it on my 17" iMac screen.*

I have things like QuickTunes, but would like to do it without a drop down menu if possible.

I saw something called Rating Bar 1.2 which does it right in the menu? Anyone use this?

I would like it to be reliable and bug free if possible as I don't have time to reistall, troublshoot my sytem right now. I know there have been threads on this before but couldn't find them in a search. sorry.

thanks

 

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ryme4reson

macrumors 6502

• Aug 13, 2004

• #2

The Best iTunes Controller by FAR!

Here is what I think is the best iTunes controller. You can select a key combination to be used from any application. (Mine is Apple + Spacebar) then the arrow keys to FF or Rev sonds, and sound up and down.

Check it out,

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8445

 

flyfish29

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Aug 13, 2004

• #3

ryme4reson said:

Here is what I think is the best iTunes controller. You can select a key combination to be used from any application. (Mine is Apple + Spacebar) then the arrow keys to FF or Rev sonds, and sound up and down.

Check it out,

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8445

Click to expand...

Thanks, for some reason I don't like key combinations as much as mousing in the menu bar. but I will check it out anyway

 

abhishekit

macrumors 65816

• Aug 13, 2004

• #4

I would recommend synergy. Does all that you said, plus can fetch can display album art in the most beautiful way.

cheers

 

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scott182

macrumors member

• Aug 13, 2004

• #5

You might want to also check out ByteController.

From Apple's page:

About ByteController
A small user interface utility for controlling iTunes. ByteController gives you three buttons in your menu bar: Previous Song, Next Song and Play/Pause. Holding the Previous Song and Next Song buttons plays fast forward or rewinds.

ByteController has hot keys for all button actions plus hot keys for controlling volume, and controlling ByteController.

 

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Jalexster

macrumors 6502a

• Aug 13, 2004

• #6

ByteControler is what I have, it's simple, painless, and you can set up keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes. I have F7 dedicated to Play/Pause on my iBook.