A great tool for using iTunes or really any app
December 20th, 2006 by jay
Recently came across a tool called AutoHotKey that has a lot of promise. Right now I’m just using it for iTunes, but I’m excited about putting it to use with many of my other heavily used applications.
Basically it allows you to create little scripts (or grab ones that others already created) in plain text files that contain commands you want to run against a particular program. So for example if you listen to iTunes all day at work and are tired of having to maximize the app to skip a song you don’t want to hear- you can use this to create a hot key which will allow you to do it from whatever program you are in at the time.
So for me I have it setup so that I can skip forward to the next song by just clicking Ctrl+>, or if I want to stop iTunes from playing I’ll just click Ctrl+/. It’s really come in handy, if you are interested in using AutoHotKey for iTunes be sure to see this post so you can grab an existing script and quickly modify it to your needs as I did, switching the Win key to the Ctrl key.
Keep in mind if you want your script to execute every time you start you PC then all you need to do is paste a shortcut to the script in your Startup folder.