Re: iTunes move forward or backward within a song

[Rob McBroom]

On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Matthew Ewald <mce...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Love your app - hoping we can make this work - Im trying to accomplish this task "move forward or backward within a song" the functions is available from with in iTunes by Option-Command-Right Arrow or Left Arrow (move in 5sec increments).
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> Can we get this trigger added to the iTunes Plugin?

I can only speak for myself, but I have no plans to do this for a couple of reasons.

1. If there were a trigger for “Rewind”, it would start rewinding and just take off. You’d have to use the “Play” trigger to stop it, which is probably not what anyone would want. Maybe you could create a custom “Play” trigger that uses the same keystroke as “Rewind”, but have it activate on release instead of on press, but I don’t know if that would work.
2. It’s been over 5 years since Apple sold a keyboard that doesn’t have dedicated keys for this. :-)

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[Lucas Garron]

In case you just want to make triggers for yourself, here are the ones I use for going forward/back 5 or 60 seconds:

http://archive.garron.us/temp/iTunes%20Control%20Scripts.zip

(I have them bound to Fn-F7, Fn-F8, Shift-Fn-F7, and Shift-Fn-F8.)

I support the idea of having them in the plugin. I was planning to poke around in the iTunes plugin some more once Rob's current work has stabilized.

»Lucas Garron

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[Rob McBroom]

On Apr 15, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Lucas Garron <crease...@gmail.com> wrote:

I support the idea of having them in the plugin. I was planning to poke around in the iTunes plugin some more once Rob's current work has stabilized.

I don’t have any changes pending, and none are planned at the moment. Have at it.

[1.61803]

On Monday, April 15, 2013 5:59:15 PM UTC+2, Matthew Ewald wrote:

Im trying to accomplish this task "move forward or backward within a song" the functions is available from with in iTunes by Option-Command-Right Arrow or Left Arrow (move in 5sec increments).

iTunes Skip Forward

property skip : 5

tell application "iTunes"

if player state is not stopped then

set pos to player position

if pos + skip ≤ finish of current track then

set player position to pos + skip

else

set player position to finish of current track as integer

end if

end if

end tell

iTunes Skip Backward

property skip : 5

tell application "iTunes"

if player state is not stopped then

set pos to player position

if pos - skip ≥ 0 then

set player position to pos - skip

else

set player position to 0

end if

end if

end tell

For better results set them as triggers enabled in all applications with a hot key (I use fn+ctrl+left/right arrows) that activates on press and repeats every 0.1 sec.

On Monday, April 15, 2013 7:57:38 PM UTC+2, Rob McBroom wrote:

  2. It’s been over 5 years since Apple sold a keyboard that doesn’t have dedicated keys for this. :-)

Yeah, but I found them not as precise and responsive as a trigger. Besides that I fear I may get some kind of rheumatism if I reach the top row of keys.

I wonder if a plugin to control all playback similar to iOS controls should be feasible.