Comments on: iTunes & Media Keys

By: Deamaed.com » iTunes, Media Keys and Microsoft IntelliType

Deamaed.com » iTunes, Media Keys and Microsoft IntelliType — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:47:22 +0000

[...] stopped working for me with the recent versions of Itunes. I then used ItunesKeys from Andrew Hills, which was a succesful alternative. Unfortunately, I moved to a Microsoft [...]

By: Shai

Shai — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:54:21 +0000

I have the reverse problem. I want the dedicated media keys to control WMP, but instead ITunes catches them whenever it is open. (Windows 7, iTunes 10.5)

Any ideas how i can *stop* iTunes from listening to the media keys?

- Shai

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:29:12 +0000

Thanks for making this tool, it’s been driving me crazy not being able to control itunes when in the background.

If it’s not too much trouble, could you please make a version without the tray icon? Or at least a way to disable it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:08:03 +0000

FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for doing this, works absolutely fine.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:12:42 +0000

Since I updated to iTunes 10.5 iTunesKeys does not work correctly any longer. It still works fine if iTunes is the active window, but if it is not, then it sends the commands twice. Duh, hang on… Yep. iTunes now recognizes my keyboard media keys by itself. If I exit iTunesKeys, all works as it should. Fail. Yet… WIN ! Thanks for the years of saving me from Apple’s tardiness.

By: pierre

pierre — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:56:04 +0000

ok I have activate the “Human Interface Device Access” and it work now to control itunes with keys.
But it don’t display itunes on screen

By: pierre

pierre — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:47:27 +0000

It don’t work, I have no itunes display on screen and no key work.

Win 7 64
last version of itunes and logitech control panel

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:52:31 +0000

Is there a way to change the keys that the program looks for? I just got a microsoft keyboard (comfort curve 2000), which has no previous and next track button, but only back and forward buttons. I previously had a microsoft natural multimedia keyboard which did. This worked fine with ituneskeys when Itunes was minimized. However, the new keyboard previous/next track does not work, even when they are mapped to the previous/next track via Intellitype. Is there a way to revise ituneskeys so that it checks for the back/forward buttons?

By: Bram

Bram — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:35:04 +0000

Just tried with the new 10.5 update and it works perfectly. Thank you!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:06:18 +0000

it doesnt works with itunes 10.5

By: Mason

Mason — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:43:30 +0000

Only issue I’m having is in fullscreen apps it doesn’t let me control still =/

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:51:13 +0000

thanks a lot! it works like a charm with 10.4.1.10. great work

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:31:14 +0000

Brilliant – and I bet a bit surprising you’re still getting notes about that, but for those who need it, this is excellent!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:58:38 +0000

@Max, I haven’t touched it in many years, but I’m thrilled that so many people still get value out of it.

Thanks!

By: Max

Max — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:40:41 +0000

Great!

Is this still being developed, or has it been discontinued? Because it still works! 10.4.1.10

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:07:47 +0000

This is working perfectly. Thanks so much for taking the time out to get this done.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:32:15 +0000

Thanks so much for the program, does exactly what I wanted it to do, only problem I have found is that you are able to load 2 instances of the program at once, which means that hitting the play/pause button will cause a slight pause then replay. Another recommendation would be to have an option to boot on start-up, thanks for the great program.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:18:11 +0000

Thanks a lot for this!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:06:06 +0000

Thanks for creating these! I didn’t really expect to find a solution when I googled this problem, but it works well. Now I don’t have to use windows media player anymore.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:12:27 +0000

HEY!!!! Awesome programming!!! XD Worked! Love it!

By: Wessel

Wessel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:22:29 +0000

This works perfectly! THNX!

By: Jenai

Jenai — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:22:49 +0000

wow, you’re a genius! ive been trying to figure this out all day. thanks so much worked IMMEDIATELY.

By: numarc

numarc — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:57:32 +0000

Wow…I applaud your efforts here. I recluctantly downloaded iT today…havent had an iPod for 4 years now since Android phones, but I am so used to the interface. I dreamt of using my buttons on my HP DV7 laptop and I found this site. Thanks for the work and I got it to work in literally 2 minutes.

By: Software multimedia keys werken niet meer (win7) - 9lives

Software multimedia keys werken niet meer (win7) - 9lives — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:28:38 +0000

[...] iTunes & Media Keys Andy @ Hillhome.org Dat lijkt een beetje op het probleem dat jij hebt. Bij winamp weet ik dat je "enable global hotkeys" moet aanvinken. En misschien als je dit geinstalleerd hebt kan je eens kijken of ze daar werken. Of met mediaplayer classic. Windows media player etc Dan kan je het probleem volgens mij al gaan zoeken bij Itunes. __________________ Dell XPS M1530 ( Intel T7250 @ 2.0 Ghz | GeForce 8600m GT | 4 Gb DDR2 667 Mhz | Vista Ultimate 32bit ) Macro-server ( Intel Pentium 4 Northwood @ 2.4 Ghz | 768 Mb DDR 133 Mhz | Windows Server 2003 ) [...]

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:10 +0000

Thank you so much! This worked like a charm, on my Dell XPS with Vista Home Premium and iTunes 7.6.2.9.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:27:46 +0000

Great! Thanks a bunch! I was playing a computer game, and couldn’t really reach Ctrl+Alt+S to change song.

By: neonstorm

neonstorm — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:53 +0000

Thank GOD for you and this discovery! It works great on my Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8818 running Vista Home Premium and iTunes 7.6.2.9.

I was SO disappointed to learn that Toshiba’s utility couldn’t do this with anything other than WMP.

Whew!!!

ps – Don’t know if it was mentioned, but I stuck a shortcut to iTunesKeys.exe in my startup directory.

By: Ryder Ross

Ryder Ross — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:20:11 +0000

This is amazing thank you!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:53:19 +0000

Seems to work for my rocketfish bluetooth mouse and keyboard too. Thanks.

By: Jethro

Jethro — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:00:33 +0000

Thanks.

Got it working in about 10 secconds (unusual for me ) and it’s really usefull. Something you wouldn’t be able to go without after trying it.

Thanks again, great work.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:07:27 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I play World of Warcraft and Guild Wars (online video games), and when I’m playing alone I perfer to listen to music. It was annoying, at the least, to need to switch to iTunes to change the song (or pause it when needed). This is exactly what I needed.

By: geneva

geneva — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:24:07 +0000

Thanks so much! I’ve been trying to work this problem out for ages!

By: Itunes + G15 lover

Itunes + G15 lover — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:00:23 +0000

Wauw! So much thanx dude! seriously!

Many,many thanx!

By: JayJayT

JayJayT — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:26:52 +0000

You are amazing……a genius. Just wondering. What do you get out of it?
Thanks

By: damo

damo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:11:59 +0000

Ur a real saver, great saver, cant see y apple didnt think of it

By: westone

westone — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:32:32 +0000

Great program, works smoothly on my Dell Inspiron 1720 with Vista Prem. Thank you for this wonderful program.

By: Ronny Who Dat

Ronny Who Dat — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:41:38 +0000

Thanks

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:30:01 +0000

THANK YOU.

Had been using Multi-Plugin, but it hadn’t been updated in forever (I think the last release was for iTunes 7.0.2)… It’s nice to have a fix that isn’t version-dependent!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:17:23 +0000

Great work, media keys have been bugging me for months!

Running a Dell XPSM1330 2.2Ghz with Vista Ultimate 32-bit, and the iTunesKeys works perfectly.

Thanks

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:12:19 +0000

Love the idea of this but I get an error every time on my system. I make sure iTunes is running first, then start iTunesKeys.exe (have downloaded a few times and tried it in my documents folder and in program files). It starts up fine but when I push a media key I get the following error every time:
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iTunesKeys.exe – Common Language Runtime Debugging Services

Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.

Process id=0xa04 (2564), Thread id=0x11ac (4524).
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I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a Toshiba Satellite A130 laptop, iTunes version 7.6.1.9.

By: Sunne

Sunne — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:07:16 +0000

Oh My Gosh you are a SAVIOR!!! I LOVE YOU! Thanks sooo much!

By: RH

RH — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:35:40 +0000

Thanks!

Great stuff!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:51:53 +0000

Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for a fix since the media buttons stopped working after updating iTunes.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:22 +0000

Just wanted to add another to the list of satisfied customers. Kicka$$!!!! let’s get married

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:10:25 +0000

Awesome! What a simple fix… I have been dealing with this issue with my G15 Keyboard and iTunes for months. Thank you so much!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:48:18 +0000

thanks dude! works perfectly on my Vaio laptop, Vista Home Premium + iTunes 7.5

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:25:26 +0000

This is a nice program. Thank you for sharing your work. Maybe I’m being picky but it seems to be a little slow to respond on my computer (around 1 sec). Any ideas. Running it on a Dell Precision M90.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:11:25 +0000

that was so easy! thank you for this amazingly simple and effective program. I’m using the new Dell Inspiron 531s just in case you were keeping track of that stuff.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:49:18 +0000

Does exactly what it needs to do. I’ll be putting this in my startup.

By: Frankie

Frankie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:36:46 +0000

HAHAHA, YOU LITTLE BEAUTY! worked a charm for my crappy acer aspire KU-0355 keyboard.