on key commands in itunes and ratings
I like to rate songs, but iTunes doesn’t have any built in key-commands to make rating a song a simple flick of the wrist.
I used to use Synergy to control itunes playback and allow me to have system-wide ratings key commands for a while, but it sucks up system resources, and paying for software just to have system-wide ratings key commands? Seems a little excessive.
So, with many thanks to @forrestgrant, I ran this command in the terminal and now I just have to tab over to iTunes and press cmd-1 for 1 star, cmd-2 for 2 stars, etc. The extra step of tabbing over to iTunes doesn’t bug me. Just copy and paste this exact command into the terminal (restart iTunes for it to go into effect):
defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents ‘{“★”=”@1”;”★★”=”@2”;”★★★”=”@3”;”★★★★”=”@4”;”★★★★★”=”@5”;}’
if you want the key strokes to be different, here are the unix equivalents of the keys on the macintosh keyboard:
@ Command (Apple) CMD
~ Option OPT
$ Shift SHIFT
^ Control CTRL
