Hi Victor, As stated by many posters, the keyboard shortcuts for fast forwarding and rewinding in iTunes are Command+Option+Right and Left Arrow, and you can find the list of keyboard shortcuts for iTunes under the "Help" menu of the iTunes menu bar (either VO+M or Control+F2 to move to the menu bar; press "H" to move to the help menu, then arrow down to "Keyboard Shortcuts"). If you have an Apple keyboard with media control keys, you can also use the F7, F8, and F9 keys to rewind, play/pause, and fast forward. Depending on how your keyboard is configured in System Preferences, you may need to hold down an Fn key with these keys. You can also control fast forward and rewind with an Apple Remote, such as is supplied with the Apple TV (and which used to be packaged with some Macs up through early 2008), provided that your Mac has an infrared sensor. (The new MacBook Airs do not have infrared sensors). And of course, if you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad running the Apple Remote app, and have paired this to your computer's iTunes library, you can also control volume, playback, and navigation through that app.
These options are explained in detailed in many archived list posts, including one that I posted 2 years ago titled, "Rewinding and Fast forwarding in iTunes" that described using the shortcut keys, media function keys, the player control buttons in iTunes (that you asked about in the original post), and the infrared remote for controlling playback in iTunes, and navigation in audiobooks and other media such as movies that allow navigation by chapters. (The post was made just after this list was moved to Google Groups, but before archiving at the secondary Mail Archive site was enabled, so it's not directly searchable in the Mail Archive, but I could find the Google Groups link by searching the Mail Archive site for an early post that referenced this link): http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/9477875096ee36fc? (Rewinding and Fast forwarding in iTunes [was Re: iTunes question]) February 25, 2009 I'll simply point out that the media function controls (F7-F9 for playback; F10-F12 for mute along with volume up and down) can be used when iTunes is playing in the background, and will also work for other media apps (such as DVD player) as well as third party apps (VLC, etc.) However, they give a slightly different level of control: if I want to slow down my fast forwarding or rewinding within a track, audiobook chapter, podcast, movie, or TV show in iTunes, I can switch from pressing all of the keys in the Command+Option+Right or Left Arrow key shortcut combination to tapping the arrow key to move in short jumps. And I won't move beyond the beginning of the track with this combination into the previous track -- I need to switch to Option+Left Arrow if I want to do that. (If the track is paused instead of playing, I also won't be able to move beyond the end of the current track with Command+Option+Right arrow to fast forward, but will have to use Option+Right Arrow.) If I tap the player control buttons or the media control F-keys (F7 or F9), then I jump to previous or next track (or chapter in an audiobook). Also, when I use the media control keys (F10-F12) for volume or muting I'm adjusting the system volume for the whole computer. When I use the iTunes specific controls (Command+Up Arrow to increase volume and Command+Down Arrow to decrease volume) I change the maximum volume in iTunes relative to the system volume, and I can either stop playing the track (pressing space bar to pause or resume) or mute the track but have it keep playing (Command+Option+Down Arrow), without affecting the system volume at all. HTH. I know this is more than anyone needed to hear. There are also more options you can read about in the archives, like the "RestartAt" AppleScript that will let you start playback of any track in iTunes at any time that you specify in the dialog window. This is available from Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver Downloads page, which is now located at: http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html Cheers, Esther On Jan 23, 2011, at 01:03, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. > May be I am missing something here, but why don't you just use command + > option + left and right arrow keys to do that? > > Nektarios. > > On Jan 23, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Victor Tsaran wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I found out a way to fast forward or rewind the clip in iTunes by >> first routing the mouse pointer to either "fast forward" or "rewind" >> button with CTRL+CMD+OPT+F5, and then holding the mouse's left button; >> release to stop either of the actions. >> The question is whether there is a mouse-down and mouse-up or "lock a >> mouse button" shortcut key in Voiceover that I'm not aware of? >> >> Thanks, >> Vic >> >> >> http://www.victortsaran.net >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
