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Strange new sidebar shortcuts in iTunes 7

A post at Mac OS X Hints lists some bizarre shortcuts that appear to be new in iTunes 7. The shortcuts apply to selecting the various content sections such as Music, Movies and the Store, but what's strange is that if you have any playlists which begin with the same letter as the shortcut, the playlist takes precedence. For example: the letter M (amongst others) can take you to your Movies section, but if you have a playlist titled "Mashups," the letter M will take you to the playlist, not the major content section.

These shortcuts are very strange indeed, and it would be nice to have a more unified and universal list tucked away under a menu somewhere, so the shortcuts worked no matter what you were doing in iTunes, or what was selected. Still, if you're interested, check out Mac OS X Hint's list of shortcuts found so far.

A post at Mac OS X Hints lists some bizarre shortcuts that appear to be new in iTunes 7. The shortcuts apply to selecting the various...
 

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smqt

I also miss Apple-1, but alternatiely, you can use Apple-L.
If you have a song playing this shortcut will take you to the song currently playing, and will "reveal" the main window in order to do so.

September 19 2006 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Megan

I agree with Stevan. I really miss the command-1 function. The minimize doesn't even come close. Does anyone know of anything that replaces them in iTunes 7?

September 19 2006 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ffats

The sidebar works the same as the browse menu does in reference to how it handles keystrokes. Want to go to your TV show library? Type T-V (assuming you don't have a playlist that starts with TV - then the shortcut will go to that instead). Need to get to the iTunes Store? Type i-T (or however much or little you want to) and it will select it for you.

Someone mentioned it was a mistake - yeah, right.

September 19 2006 at 4:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gg

iTunes 6 could play to multiple sources through airtunes

September 19 2006 at 3:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

On another itunes 7 note, anyone else install aquaT, to get aqua back. Not that I really minded the new look but I installed it anyway to see what it would look like with the old "lickable" buttons everyone loves. You can get it here http://www.thrica.com/software/aguat/

September 19 2006 at 3:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
motech

anyone notice that through airtunes you can now play to multiple sources at once?
dont know how well it works with two airport expresses but i had music on my laptop and my bathroom at same time.
looks really cool

September 19 2006 at 2:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
madisey

This behaviour is probably a mistake. Just like a lot of things in the Seven.

September 19 2006 at 2:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
l0ne

The video has many of the same shortcuts that VLC for Mac uses, down to command+alt+arrows for 5s skip, command+alt+down for muting and command+0 for half-size video.

September 19 2006 at 1:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
error

"you are a liar" ? Uhm... WTF?

I also miss Command-1. iTunes 7 uses this one for video (check the View-menu)

September 19 2006 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stevan

Slightly unrelated... something I miss that they took away is command-1 and command-2 keystrokes for opening the main playlist window and opening the equalizer. Now it's difficult, not as straight forward, to bring back the main window if you red button close it.

September 19 2006 at 1:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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