bubbalouie

Works a treat, Thanks :)

Stuffy

Great! Thanks.

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

SoulFusion

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

works great on my Macbook Pro (early 2008)

JohnM

Awesome, thanks so much!

stevo

You rock Nick! Poot!!!!

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

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.

matt.foster

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

matt.foster

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

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

florentv

Works fine. Great extension. :)

ocastelblanco

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

pandronic

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

arslock

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

relientchevette

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

timashkov

thank you for the plugin! works perfectly

HardBit

It's great
Works perfectly in my mac mini

Manusnake

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

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.

wishnight

thank you!

henrik

Thanks! Finally I have global hotkeys for songbird!

foomarks

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

dbrenner

uhh THANK YOU! this greatly helps my transition from iTunes

Manusnake

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

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

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

Manusnake

Thanks for 1.2!

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!

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...

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 :)

Erikw

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

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?

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 :-)

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.

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.

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!

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?

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

timashkov

the install button is grey. why could this be?

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...

cavin

Any chance the source will ever be available again? It's not available at the give url anymore...

Dexter123

Hey hey:D Please make an updated version of this for the new Songbird release:D It' would be very kind of you^

robert

This one is not working with the latest Songbird version (1.7.2). Can you, please, make a fix?

robert

... overwritting the maxVersion variable in install.rdf didn't worked though..

drleper

Version bump anyone? :)

Ragusa

Hi, can you make a fix for this addon? or post the source of sbAppleMediaKeyComponent.dylib?

cavin

+1 post the source or fix the problem!!

cavin

Update:
I spoke to the developer of this extension. Here is his message:

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Hi Cavin,

Sorry for the short delay, I was out of town all last week. Yes, I did build the apple media keys extension. It does need to be updated to incorporate all of the changes that have been made to our build system (it's a bit of work). The other issue is that Apple changed around event dispatching for those keys (fwiw they're passed through kernel space) and I haven't had a chance to look around for a solution.

The source is open, and I was hosting it on a mercurial repo on a machine that was just taken out of service. I'll try and post the source code to that (and some other extensions I have) up on bitbucket this week.
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So that's good news. If he doesn't fix it anytime soon (not sure if that meant he will or not), then at least someone else will hopefully give it a try. :)

joanferva

Updates, pleeeeeeeeeeeease!!!

robert

No update for this plugin is big stopper for me to upgrade to the new Songbird 1.7.3, please, make a fix asap.
Thanks guys!

Schwippel

Nick, I hope you, Mook and Craig can work this out since this is a very handy add-on. Please keep it alive and keep it compatible to new Songbird versions.

Oh, and since there is a new home for the sourcecode: please fix the link to the source code at the top. Try to keep things nice and working. That would be great.

rubyji

I miss this feature in the new Songbird. Thanks to everyone helping to update this add-on!

parabolee

Please update this great add-in.

Without it, the Mac version of Songbird is pretty useless IMO!

I'm off to try and downgrade my songbird back to a version this add-in works with!

parabolee

For anyone else looking to downgrade in order to continue using this Add-on, here is the latest version of Songbird this works with -

http://download.songbirdnest.com/installer/macosx/i686/Songbird_1.4.3-1438_macosx-i686.dmg

DouglasB

Yes devs, PLEASE update this very necessary add on ! It's actually kind of silly that this functionality isn't simply working in SB by default. Thanks !

Doug

pascal2000

Please update the add-ons. This is missing so cruely from the latest songbird. Thanks in advance.

@parabolle > nice one!!

adzap

Give your support to this request on Get Satisfaction to see if we can get this into Songbird core. http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/add_apple_keyboard_media_key_support_to_core

sleepingjellyfish

any chance of an update for songbird 1.7?

vitriolix

Doesn't work with songbird 1.8b3.

fakeperson

An update would be great! Songbird is really lacking this in the newest version!

Schwippel

I'm out. Can't wait months for important plug-ins without developers giving any response to questions.

Sorry guys, I'm leaving over to iTunes / XBMC -combination.

Bye bye Songbird.

Navali

It's funny how apple media key support is actually integrated into the windows version. I am using Windows 7 with bootcamp on macbook and they media keys work great.

atkinsonr

Is the source code still available for this?

The link posted above no longer works.

Gravy

i got it to install by editing the install.rdf file in the xpi but it didnt work :(

Dexter123

THANKS THANKS THANKS!!!!! SO SO MUCH!!!!:D:D:D I really hope you keep this add-on updated^

drleper

Awesome, thanks a lot for that Nick!

Ragusa

Thanks a lot ! I ve been waiting for a long time ;)

kdat

Thanks for the bump, however, this update is not working for me for some reason. I tried to once again go to an old version of songbird, but my media keys still aren't working. Is anyone else having this problem?

khruschev

Same here. The update is not working. I have songbird 1.8.0 right now. I tried disabling all other addons but still to no avail. I will try a completely clean reinstall right now. Is it also possible that this only works for Mac OSX 10.6? I'm still on 10.5.8. Please advise.

khruschev

Also this is on the unibody macbook pro.

thebitguru

Thanks for updating this, Nick. This seems to work with my MBP running 10.6.5 (running in 32-bit) with Songbird 1.8.0, Build 1800 (20100830150342).

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In case if MMFix doesn't work for anyone's Mac, they can also try a patch that I created to prevent iTunes from starting when you press the play/pause button. Check it out at the following URL.

http://www.thebitguru.com/projects/iTunesPatch

khruschev

Update: Upgraded to OS X 10.6 and reinstalled this addon, now it works. Thanks.

khruschev

Any word if the current plugin version is compatible with the latest version of songbird (1.9.3)?

drumthordrum

For those of you wondering how to stop iTunes from opening every time you hit play, check out the following link. It is a super simple click and go process (no need for scripting).

http://lifehacker.com/#!5651055/free-your-macs-media-keys-from-itunes-no-manual-hacking-required

AdLentis

Also works fine with old PS/2 multimedia keyboard, connected via USB to PS/2 adapter to a Mac Mini. Only one issue: iTunes is also opened when I press play. How can I disable this?

AdLentis

Ok... missed the last post.

br3ncouk

says its not compatible with my current songbird? :( installed today on osx - any ideas?