Expert’s Rating
Our Verdict
SizzlingKeysis a nearly destitute System Preference Pane that lets you control a issue of iTunes functions from your keyboard , admit found iTunes , changing songs , display the current song ( include cover fine art ) , fink the current track , and opening playlists . I say nearly gratis because the vast absolute majority of the program ’s features ( really all the features that you require ) are available for free . But , if you need to add SizzlingKey ’s pro features ( controls like cut forward or backward a assign number of second in the current track or dull the organisation volume ) you ’ll necessitate to make up a $ 5 ascent fee . But the truth of the affair is that the free version is all most people will ever need .
While SizzlingKeys ships with a nonremittal Seth of keyboard shortcuts , you’re able to customize those crosscut to any keys that you choose . The only problem I ran into with SizzlingKeys hail when I tried to use some of the Preference Pane ’s pre - defined shortcuts , some of which conflicted with Spaces . So , when I expected to be bestow a 3 - star rating to a track , I instead ended up in Space-3 . I also found that much of the functionality useable in SizzlingKeys was already useable in Keyboard Maestro , another utility program I use regularly . The Spaces publication was easy enough fix , but it would have been better if SizzlingKeys at least recognise that some of its own crosscut were being used by space .
SizzlingKeys offer a costless and easy way to control iTunes from your keyboard , which , if you ’re an iTunes regular , goes a tenacious room towards keeping you ’re favourite tunes playing while your fingers go to work .
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