Using 'Play, Pause, Forward, Backward' buttons on keyboard with iTunes

Hey - Second question for day (Third actually 2nd thread)
I know with other programs you can use the pause and play etc buttons on the keyboard even when playing games and such.
As of yet I havnt found any plugins/options within iTunes to allow me to use these buttons and it would be great if someone could point me in right direction where to find em.

Get a Logitech keyboard. All my keyboards functions work with iTunes out of the box.

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Hello,
Is there any way I can stop these buttons from starting iTunes automatically when pressed accidentally? And is there anyway I can assign them to a separate application, other then iTunes?
Thanks in advance!

nope, it is not solved.
Why have Apple SCREWED with the system commands and backend to make the simplest of media and entertainment functions as miserable as possible.
If I wanted iTunes to start up... I would click on iTunes. If I want to Play or Pause a track that is already open in Spotify (just like I did in Leopard), I shouldn't be too misguided in thinking that the play/pause button should do the trick.
What I don't expect is to get transported to my iTunes space while it loads and then sits there, getting in the way of everything. THAT IS PANTS!
Sort it out Mr. Jobs or I won't buy an iPhone... oooooohhh!

My keyboard (wired) has lost functionality on the music PLAY/PAUSE, FORWARD and BACK, and VOLUME KEYS. They do NOTHING. All else is fine. How can I reassign them correctly? (Don't see those functions listed with System Settings/Keybard shortcuts).

My keyboard (wired) has lost functionality on the music PLAY/PAUSE, FORWARD and BACK, and VOLUME KEYS. They do NOTHING. All else is fine. How can I reassign them correctly? (Don't see those functions listed with System Settings/Keybard shortcuts).

Crayolla,
Try doing a SMC and PRAM resets. Sometimes it takes 2-3 attempts for them to work so be a little persistent if they fail the first time.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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As the King says, if your friends wifi router was relatively new, it likely has not been picked up by Apple's location based information database system and thus there is no location information associated with it. So your iPad had no way of getting its location.
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http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/tools/pc-companion/
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Some are hardwired, others are not.
I'm afraid you don't stand much of a chance.

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Hi again,
After a little further research, it appears that you would need to create separate iTunes libraries in order to be able to continue to purchase and download previously purchased items on the same computer, for two different Apple IDs. Sorry - but my husband and I have had the library we sync with authorized for so long, that we have not run into this issue, but it appears that you will get an warning when you try to authorize the second ID on the same computer, indicating that another ID is already associated with it.
So, you will probably have to set up separate iTunes libraries for each ID:
http://www.imore.com/how-use-multiple-apple-ids-one-computer-and-itunes
Sorry for any confusion - hope this helps!
Cheers,
GB

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Hi all
I am keen to use Presenter to put together a language listening test for some clients. My clients want their students to not be able to pause the presentation so, say, they can't pause, translate word, pause, translate word and so on. In order to do this, I need to remove or lock the Pause/Play button that appears in the skin of a Presenter module.
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Hi Peta,
You're right...you could hide the playbar by setting that value to "false", but as you have no doubt already seen, that modification eliminates everything, which won't totally solve your problem.
Since you have Flash, I'd recommend that you create a simple .swf file that will ultimately hide the Play/Pause button in the playbar area of Presenter content. I'll be honest...I haven't "locked" the Play button, but that might be something to investigate IF what I'm proposing here doesn't do the trick for you.
So here we go....
In Flash, create a small stage area and on frame one in your timeline add the following:
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
_root.m_controlBar.m_playBtn._visible= 0;
Save the Flash file as "playBtnKill.fla" and then publish it. Then head back to PowerPoint and add the swf to the first slide in a presentation using Presenter's Import Flash function. Publish the content and the Play button should be gone!
Programming NOTE: because Presenter is set up for Flash Player 6/7/8, its best to code everything using Flash Player 6 / Actionscript 2.0 as the coding environment.
A couple of things to keep in mind about this:
First, by placing the swf file on the first slide of your PPT deck, the Play button will be affected for the entire duration of your presentation. If you need it to show / hide / show /hide periodically throughout the deck, then you might want to think about how you want to handle the overall stucture of your course. Meaning, that what might work is to kill off the Play button entirely, but use a PowerPoint graphic (that looks like a Play button) and then time that object to appear after a certain amount of time. Of course, then you'd have to hyperlink the PPT object to the next slide in your deck so that folks will be given an opportunity to advance to the next slide.
Second, since your intention is to remove the Play button, you should probably leave the "Advance by user" feature set to "NO", otherwise you will ahve to provide some mechanism of navigating from slide to slide (as mentioned above). At least this way, by the time you've reached the end of the audio for a slide, the presentation will automatically advance.
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Rob
http://www.robrode.com/yabb/

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used is from this tutorial

i'm sure what you want but try:
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