Ever since ripping all of my CDs into iTunes, I’ve been looking for a good way to control what I’m hearing. Since I’m using Desktop Manager to have virtual desktops on my G5, I don’t want to go hunting for my iTunes window on a different desktop just to play\/pause or change a track. The best solution I’ve found so far is to just use the dock menu for iTunes, but I want something that’s always there.<\/p>\n
That’s where SizzlingKeys<\/a> by Yellow Mug Software<\/a> comes in. Not only does SizzlingKeys give you the option to set hotkeys for all kinds of operations built-in to iTunes (play\/pause, previous track, next track, volume up\/down, mute, show\/hide iTunes), but it also adds quite a bit of functionality on it’s own. First there’s the “Floater” window that shows the current artist, title, album, and album art… I have mine displayed all the time, but you can toggle it with a hotkey or choose to just show it when the song changes. There are also hotkeys to bring up a window to search for songs to play or another window to pick a new playlist to listen to. Overall, it’s packed with features, the interface is pretty nice with all pop-up windows being nice rounded black transparent displays, and it’s free to boot. I give it two thumbs up, so check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since ripping all of my CDs into iTunes, I’ve been looking for a good way to control what I’m hearing. Since I’m using Desktop Manager to have virtual desktops on my G5, I don’t want to go hunting for my iTunes window on a different desktop just to play\/pause or change a track. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}