How to skip a few seconds via keyboard?

Question

I play audio using a laptop and itunes (windows) in my car, and I am used to a feature in winamp that allowed me to press my left/right arrow keys on the keyboard to move through the audio 10 seconds at a time -- is there a way to do this in itunes? I found an applescript for mac to do this, but of course this is windows...

Answer 1

Ok, I came up with a solution myself - I used a program called 'autoit' http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ , and created a script that runs in the background looking for the arrow keys on the keyboard to be pressed - if up is pressed, it plays, if down is pressed it pauses, if right is pressed it fast forwards about 5-7 seconds, if left is pressed it rewinds 5-7 seconds -- it is not a perfect solution, but it works for me... the autoit script uses wscript (built into windows xp) to run a vbs that I found here: www.maximized.com/freeware/scriptsforitunes/
So create a folder, put all the .vbs scripts in it from that url, then create a .au3 file (autoit script) with a text editor such as notepad, in the folder, and put in the script below, and save. If autoit is installed properly you can right click the .au3 file you created/saved and choose compile. Now you have an exe that you can double click, and your arrow keys should work!:
Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{RIGHT}", "DoFastForward")
HotKeySet("{LEFT}", "DoRewind")
HotKeySet("{UP}", "DoPlay")
HotKeySet("{DOWN}", "DoPause")
While 1
Sleep(100)
WEnd
Func DoPlay()
Run("wscript.exe Play.vbs")
EndFunc
Func DoPause()
Run("wscript.exe Pause.vbs")
EndFunc
Func DoFastForward()
Run("wscript.exe FastForward.vbs")
Sleep(100)
Run("wscript.exe Play.vbs")
EndFunc
Func DoRewind()
Run("wscript.exe Rewind.vbs")
Sleep(100)
Run("wscript.exe Play.vbs")
EndFunc