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Control iTunes with Launchy
Posted by Gina Trapani at 12:14 PM on December 21, 2007
Windows only with Launchy: Control iTunes from the keyboard with a new script that adds Play, Pause, Stop, Next Song, Previous Song, Ratings, Track Info, Volume Adjustments and more to Windows keyboard launcher Launchy. Download the Launchy/iTunes script (which isn't a plugin proper, it's a Launchy utility) and click on the iTunes Control.exe file to install it. Rescan your Launchy catalog and invoke it to get to your new list of iTunes features. One step closer to Quicksilver... Launchy 2.0 is a free download as well as the iTunes utility. (The link below points to a 0.1 version of the script, but a 0.3 version is here.) Thanks, Daniel!
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NikP
Posted 7:45 PM 20/12/07
Nevermind, I got it. Thanks!
NikP
NikP
Posted 7:32 PM 20/12/07
I'm having trouble with this... I install and it says it's done correctly, a whole bunch of icons appear on my desktop, and then I rescan the catalog. Nothing happens though.
What could I do?
NikP
TehOompa
Posted 8:52 PM 20/12/07
Cool. Now there needs to be one for foobar2000.
TehOompa
mskadu
Posted 1:27 AM 21/12/07
how about one for winamp?
mskadu
soul_grind
Posted 5:53 AM 21/12/07
whoops.. too slow...
soul_grind
soul_grind
Posted 5:53 AM 21/12/07
and mediamonkey....
soul_grind
aidan_cage
Posted 5:49 AM 21/12/07
and thus MediaMonkey. This functionality is missing from Dash Command
aidan_cage
jarhead
Posted 7:31 AM 21/12/07
@aidan_cage: I have been using these scripts with Dash for some time. These should work with Launchy as well.
jarhead
nharren
Posted 12:22 AM 21/12/07
This is much easier to do in Keybreeze. That being said, creating similar shortcuts to perform tasks for any program would not seem difficult. All you have to do is make shortcuts to a program with command line parameters.
nharren
DmitriKaramazov
Posted 9:57 PM 20/12/07
Has anyone had trouble getting Launchy to index mp3s?
DmitriKaramazov
jfty.009260
Posted 8:48 PM 20/12/07
Any method for controlling Windows Media Player through Launchy?
jfty.009260
DmitriKaramazov
Posted 7:01 PM 20/12/07
Rubbish! No one uses iTunes, unless they have an iPod or they are hardcore Mac enthusiasts. And in that case they will be using Quicksilver.
I love Launchy, and I would like to see it control Winamp, or even WMP. This utility, while glorious in theory, probably wounds the majority of Launchy users.
DmitriKaramazov
TheDreamMaster
Posted 10:23 AM 21/12/07
Actually this works too in Dash and people have been using scripts and shortcuts to get this type of functionality for quite a while already.
Pretty much anything that you can run using Launchy's runny plugin will work in Dash directly since Dash has always had direct command line execution.
The upcoming Dash music plugins had been mentioned in the Dash forums in the past, with greater functionality and direct integration.
TheDreamMaster
aidan_cage
Posted 10:12 AM 21/12/07
but will they work for MediaMonkey?
aidan_cage
aidan_cage
Posted 6:52 AM 23/12/07
Why did I bring up MediaMonkey in a post about added iTunes functionality? I guess every time I see something new that is geared towards iTunes I just want it to work for my music player of choice. iTunes doesn't work for me, but I want scripts like this to work for MediaMonkey.
aidan_cage