How to quickly rate songs in iTunes - OS X

April 10th, 2008 by Ross McKillop | Print This Post Print This Post
Mac iPod/iPhone

Funes is a song raters dream come true. With all of its faults, iTunes remains my #1 media player. I use Quicksilver to control iTunes, which means iTunes is minimized 99% of the time. So to rate a song I have to bring up iTunes, locate the song, and add the rating. Enter Funes. A small (and free) app that resides in your menu and serves one single purpose - to let you quickly rate the currently playing song. Genius.

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  1. 4 Responses to “How to quickly rate songs in iTunes - OS X”

  2. By Brook on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply

    If you’re using Quicksilver anyway, you could rate tracks using the iTunes Module. It provides several scripts making this super simple:

    Set Rating to 0
    Set Rating to 1
    Set Rating to 2
    Set Rating to 3
    Set Rating to 4
    Set Rating to 5
    Increase Rating
    Decrease Rating

  3. By Ross McKillop on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply

    @Brook:

    You’re absolutely right. The problem (for me) is that I can only remember so many keyboard combinations - and with Quicksilver I have SO many set up that an app like Funes is worth it for me, just to avoid having to remember six(ish) fewer.

  4. By Shankar Ganesh on May 1, 2008 | Reply

    Ross,

    I use iTunes on Windows. I want to know if there’s a possibility of controlling iTunes using universal keyboard shortcuts?

    I know you could use shortcuts like the space key etc. from inside iTunes but is there a way to control it by key presses from inside any app on Windows? I’m looking for a workaround/app that will do this job. Help me if you can :)

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