( Formerly known as High Sierra Media Key Enabler )
Forwards media keys to iTunes or Spotify directly.
Rather than the media keys always controlling iTunes, they will now control whatever media is playing at a given moment. 9To5Mac has detailed a way to change this behavior with a third-party application, macOS High Sierra Media Key Enabler for iTunes and Spotify. Here are some threads at the Spotify forum talking about this issue: I have owned my Dell XPS 15 for 2 years. Today when I turn my laptop on and launch spotfy whilst watching a youtube video, my pause media key starts pausing youtube instead of spotify (I have never been able to pause youtube before with media keys so this is very strange). Spotify Keyboard Shortcuts; Task Shortcut (PC) Shortcut (Mac) Create new playlist: Ctrl+N: Command+N: Copy: Ctrl+C: Command+C: Cut: Ctrl+X: Command+X: Paste: Ctrl+V: Command+V: Delete: Del: Backspace: Select All: Ctrl+A: Command+A: Deselect items: Ctrl+Shift+A: Command+Shift+A: Play/pause: Space: Space: Next track: Ctrl+Right arrow: Command+Right arrow: Previous track: Ctrl+Left arrow.
Select a media player from the drop-down list. Click on the media software you want to set as your new default player for this file format. If you don't see your favorite media player on the list, click Other at the bottom of the menu. This will let you browse all your applications, and select a different software.
You can prioritize which app you would like to control or you can go with the default behaviour which controls the running app. The app runs in the menu bar.
Installation
Issues you should know about
The app listens on the event tap for key events. This causes problems in some rare cases, like
In these cases simply pause Mac Media Key Forwarder from it's menu.
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Apple just released High Sierra and it brought good things and annoying things : they changed the behaviour of the media controller keys, they no longer control itunes, they control the video playback in safari. This pissed off a lot of people including me, so I just created a menu bar app to proxy media key events to iTunes/Spotify while Apple fixes this. It doesn't support touchbar yet, only physical buttons.
I recently bought a shiny new mechanical keyboard to use with my Mac. So far, I’m liking it, but I miss having media keys for controlling volume and music playback like on my Apple & Logitech keyboards.
To address this, I wrote a few simple Applescript services that you can bind keyboard shortcuts to, which enable media commands (volume up/down, mute, play/pause, and next/prev track) for any keyboard.
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You can download them by clicking here. Once downloaded and unzipped, simply double click each workflow file to install it. Note that these are only tested in OSX 10.7 Lion.
To bind keyboard shortcuts to the scripts, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts. Select Services in the left panel, then scroll down to the script you want to assign a shortcut to. Double click on the right side of the row to edit the shortcut. Now, just hit the key combination you want to use, and make sure the checkbox to the left is checked (it likes to uncheck when you edit the key combo).
I used the following shortcuts:
Command +: F13 – Volume Down F14 – Mute F15 – Volume Up Mac Spotify Media Keys Download
Command + Option +:
F13 – iTunes Volume Down F14 – iTunes Mute F15 – iTunes Volume Up
Command + Control +:
F13 – iTunes Previous Track F14 – iTunes Toggle Pause F15 – iTunes Next Track
I chose these because they are conveniently grouped at the top right of my keyboard, and I don’t use them for anything else. Note that you seem to need to include a Command in your key combo for it to work everywhere.
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Also note that I made the system volume control fairly granular (5% increments), and the iTunes control fairly coarse (20% increments) based on my personal preference. You can easily edit these values by opening the workflow files in Automator. The scripts can be found at ~/Library/Services/ once installed.
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