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TotalTunes controls iTunes with ease

by Cory Bohon Dec 30th 2007 at 2:30PM

We've all been there, you're working on something and want to easily change a song in iTunes. What do you do? Well, you could right-click on the iTunes icon in the dock; but that will only give you rudimentary options. Well, here comes TotalTunes Control.

With TotalTunes, just create a toggle key then start playing a song. When you want to change a song, just press that key combo and you're given a slew of options for changing song, playlist, rating, volume level, shuffle, and repeat. You can download this slick application for free from the developer's website (it's freeware, but donations are accepted).

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We've all been there, you're working on something and want to easily change a song in iTunes. What do you do? Well, you could right-click...
 

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Alan G

Is it working for others that have Leopard? It immediately crashes for me.

December 31 2007 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Christina Warren

It works for me.

I appreciate free - but as others have noticed, it is kind of ugly (someone went a little overboard with the HUD and gloss effects). Still, very useful if you don't want t use QS.

December 31 2007 at 1:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macroy

I'm confused. I tried running this, and setting it to appear when I press F2, but it seems to open up behind every other window I have open. Am I doing something wrong, or is this pointless? (Or some other explanation that isn't mean?)

December 31 2007 at 1:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
benny

hey, I got another key combo that does the same thing - Command-Tab will switch to iTunes - allowing you to have complete control over, uh, iTunes! :^)

Looks cute though...

December 30 2007 at 10:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Junior

Will it...








Work with iPod

December 30 2007 at 10:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

I'm a big fan of Byte Controller. Simple controls in the menu bar allow for prev, next, scan fwd and back and volume.

http://www.bytetastic.com/

December 30 2007 at 9:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dazonic

Might be useful for touchscreens in car installs. Anyone know of other apps that could help me out here?

December 30 2007 at 8:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dexter

My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!!

Gosh, it's as if a blind person tried to copy CoverSutra... I know, freeware and all, but that doesn't make blatant copying okay.

December 30 2007 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
C

What about you control: tunes, which allows you to pause/play/stop, select albums or playlist and rate songs from the menubar? I think after awhile key commands become clunky, especially if you have a couple of apps that use key commands. Between this and quicksilver I think the average user would be good to go.

December 30 2007 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oddysseey

I use GimmeSomeTune - lets you control and fetches covers, lyrics, has scrobbling (last.fm)support, etc, etc. gimmesometune.com

But this is clearly a rip-off of CoverSutra.

December 30 2007 at 3:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Raymie

i just use the hot keys on my macbook or my apple remote to switch songs

December 30 2007 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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