By. 7:20 am, February 14, 2011. If you use online streaming service, you’ll know that the client software required for controlling it is pretty good. It’s simple to use, and not too cluttered with controls and extras. Since I started paying £5/month for Spotify’s advert-free Unlimited service, I’ve been listening to it for many hours on end, and found only one problem: I have to switch back to Spotify to control it. Now it’s true that Spotify can be controlled with your Mac’s existing dedicated iTunes buttons – F7 for previous track, F8 for play/pause, and F9 for next track. But this only works well if iTunes isn’t running at the same time.
If both apps are open, they both respond to these commands, and audio chaos ensues. Is a simple free utility that solves this problem by allowing you to set up your own system-wide keyboard shortcuts for Spotify, so you can avoid the conflict with iTunes and still have easy keyboard access to your favorite songs. It would be nice if Spotify Menubar had some clickable controls of its own, which would better justify its position on the Menu Bar in the first place.
But for those of us who spend hours a day with our heads inside Spotify playlists, it’s a useful little widget to have around nonetheless.
3 Free Ways to Remotely Connect to Your Mac’s Desktop Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated July 3, 2017, 4:19pm EDT Apple sells Apple Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store for $80, but you don’t have to spend any money to remotely connect to your Mac. The remote has been designed to work on as many different systems as possible. However, there is no cross-platform way to control the Spotify application. Therefore there is a remote implementation for each OS (Windows, Mac, Linux).
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