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Apple Keyboard Media Key Support nick kreeger

An extension to enable Apple media key support (for Apple keyboards).


Apple Keyboard Media Key Support



Description

Adds playback support for Apple keyboards that have multimedia keys on them.

For those interested, the source is hosted here:
http://nightingale.songbirdnest.com/whitedragon/




Release Notes

New version to support Songbird trunk version (1.4)




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Comments

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bubbalouie
bubbalouie

Works a treat, Thanks :)

about 1 year ago
Stuffy
Stuffy

Great! Thanks.

Btw, it works with the MacBook keyboard as well. Just in case anybody got confused by the picture...

about 1 year ago
SoulFusion
SoulFusion

Finally!
Thank you very much, this is the addon I waited for weeks! :D

works great on my Macbook Pro (early 2008)

about 1 year ago
JohnM
JohnM

Awesome, thanks so much!

about 1 year ago
stevo
stevo

You rock Nick! Poot!!!!

about 1 year ago
berror
berror

Works great on my macbook.

Thank you so much!! Have been waiting very long for this plugin.

Only thing I need now is a working now playing list :P

about 1 year ago
xenetic
xenetic

Since it's apparently possible to make use out of the media keys for people that have keyboards with them. Is it possible to re-route the keys to normal key combination like (cmd+left arrow, etc...)

I have a late 2006 model MBP, no media keys. I love songbird and even dropped itunes all together. But one thing I miss was being able to switch, pause/play songs from any application with hotkeys.

about 1 year ago
nick kreeger
nick kreeger

@xenetic

I'm also in the same boat - I have a MBP that doesn't have the media keys and I use a Microsoft Ergo keyboard that has a play/pause button. The next step is to add some global hotkey support to Songbird.

about 1 year ago
matt.foster
matt.foster

Stupid question im sure, but im having problems installing it? Can someone please help!!

about 1 year ago
matt.foster
matt.foster

I have figured it out haha. Easy-peasy. Really likeing Songbird! Such a great alternative for itunes

about 1 year ago
volcomstnboi
volcomstnboi

I just want to say....

THANK YOU!!!

This was the last thing keeping me from completely switching to Songbird on my Macbook.

This works perfectly on the MacBook4,1

about 1 year ago
florentv
florentv

Works fine. Great extension. :)

about 1 year ago
ocastelblanco
ocastelblanco

Great!!!! I use a MBP and works amazing. Very thank you.

about 1 year ago
pandronic
pandronic

@xenetic: how do you remap the multimedia keys to a regular key combination?

about 1 year ago
arslock
arslock

can you make one for a logitech S 530 keyboard? it won't wooooooork :(

about 1 year ago
relientchevette
relientchevette

thanks I hated hitting the P/P button and having iTunes open

about 1 year ago
timashkov
timashkov

thank you for the plugin! works perfectly

about 1 year ago
HardBit
HardBit

It's great
Works perfectly in my mac mini

about 1 year ago
Manusnake
Manusnake

Great add-on, when do you expect to have 1.2.0a support? Because this version really improves library performances.

about 1 year ago
rubyji
rubyji

Any chance of getting this to work with non-Apple brand keyboards? They're able to control iTunes, I just need a comparable command to give it for Songbird.

12 months ago
wishnight
wishnight

thank you!

11 months ago
henrik
henrik

Thanks! Finally I have global hotkeys for songbird!

11 months ago
foomarks
foomarks

Woohoo, yes! Carpal tunnel be gone, thanks so much!

11 months ago
dbrenner
dbrenner

uhh THANK YOU! this greatly helps my transition from iTunes

10 months ago
Manusnake
Manusnake

Any chance of updating it for 1.2? It's in beta now, so it should be doable :-)

10 months ago
Anirudh
Anirudh

woo It took me sometime to searching for this...i got it! i got it !!!

works perfectly with my macbook...

Also do checkout the support for the Apple remote control Add- onn Another great add on...

THanks

9 months ago
Anirudh
Anirudh

woo It took me sometime to searching for this...i got it! i got it !!!

works perfectly with my macbook...

Also do checkout the support for the Apple remote control Add- onn Another great add on...

THanks

9 months ago
nick kreeger
nick kreeger

Just got around to updating this, give it a shot now.

9 months ago
Manusnake
Manusnake

Thanks for 1.2!

9 months ago
Lukich
Lukich

How on Earth do you people make it work with MB Pro? Help me please, this is the last thing I need to be fully satisfied with Songbird. Thanks!

9 months ago
nick kreeger
nick kreeger

This addon will also work w/ the play/pause button on the mac kinesis freestyle.

@Lukich - it should "just work" if you install the extension and have media keys from Apple on your MBP. Which version of Mac OS / MBP are you running Songbird on?

9 months ago
hachre
hachre

When I press a media key, like for example the play/pause one what happens is that:
1. Songbird stops playing the current file (as intended)
2. iTunes starts up (meh)

Any way to disable this?

I'm running Snow Leopard and iTunes 8.2.1...

7 months ago
nick kreeger
nick kreeger

@hachre - unfortunately no, iTunes _always_ claims this event :-(

7 months ago
hachre
hachre

hey nick,

as a workaround, i've renamed /Applications/iTunes.app to /Applications/iTunes_off.app and it doesn't launch anymore now...

I can live with that :)

7 months ago
Erikw
Erikw

Is it possible to add this functionality: rewind song when back-key is pressed and skip forward when fowrad-key is pressed?

7 months ago
jfml
jfml

mh, sounds promising. but i still don't get how to remap to normal key-combinations like xenetic did(?) since i have a mbp with no mediakeys.

can anyone help?

7 months ago
chrisi1698
chrisi1698

hey, this extension seems to be nice, but it's x86-only. could you please give me a quick how-to on compiling it (just what sources exactly i need to check out for dependencies, where i have to put your plugin's sources, which commands to issue to just build the extension). I use songbird 1.1.3 on PPC64, a contributed build from Thomas Legg (http://www.the-eleven.com/tlegg/).
Thanks very much in advance :-)

7 months ago
Nebula
Nebula

Neat!!

Can you perhaps make something like this for the Razer Lycosa keyboard??

SongBird needs some sort of Itunes hotkey emulation for it to be supported by Lycosa.

6 months ago
kamaksh
kamaksh

The Plugin works very smoothly, but doesn't have one function that we can do with i tunes. With itunes, if you hold the Fwd and Rwd keys, you can forward or rewind the ngoing song, which doesn't happen with this add on on Songbird. But still, a great add on.

6 months ago
perslucht
perslucht

I got iTunes disabled by doing this terminal-thing from this link.
http://superuser.com/questions/31925/stop-play-pause-button-opening-itunes-in-snow-leopard/39390#39390

Works fine so far!

6 months ago
ranec
ranec

VLC and other media players have a feature where holding down >> and << do 10s jumps in those relative directions, rather than changing tracks.
Can this get added to the Add-on?

5 months ago
coops
coops

Outstanding - thanks.

Was stunned when i found that although the Macbook pro f8 etc could control VLC amongst others - could not believe iTunes forced itself open when used... I don't even use itunes.

Have uninstalled iTunes - good riddance. Can't believe any music player doesn't have a proper 'now playing' list - still odd it has to be 'added on' to Songbird, but at least it's there!

Thanks again

3 months ago
timashkov
timashkov

the install button is grey. why could this be?

3 months ago
stevenarrow
stevenarrow

kind of a silly request: the add-on doesn't work when there is no keyboard plugged in. I am trying to map the keys to my iPhone through Air Mouse app.

Anyone got a work-around or perhaps can the functions (play/ pause/ skip) be assigned to standard keys like space bar, etc...

2 months ago



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Name: Apple Keyboard Media Key Support


Author: nick kreeger

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