Mac Media Key Forwarder forwards the media keys of your Mac keyboard to iTunes or Spotify directly. You can prioritize which app you would like to control. The app runs in the menu bar. No more accidental opening of iTunes!
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The media keys on a Mac keyboard are infamous for abrupt malfunctions. More often than not, you're forced to restart the music app or the computer entirely to regain usage of them. Fortunately, there's a better fix available now; it's called Mac Media Key Forwarder.
Mac Media Key Forwarder is a simple app through which you can manually prioritize Spotify or Apple Music for the keyboard's media buttons. It lives in the menu bar so that you can switch between the two services without having to go through any settings.
As of version 2.9.17, Downcast for Mac can finally be controlled using an Apple keyboard's media keys. Since Apple still doesn't permit sandboxed apps to control the media keys, we have to do this with the help of a free 3rd party app called BeardedSpice. This app acts as a system wide controller for your media keys, passing media key press events to the appropriate application whether it's Downcast, Spotify, iTunes or some other app.
For the most part when Spotify is open, the "media" keys work fine. But every once and a while iTunes will pop up when you hit them. It'd be a lot nicer if you could just specify that Spotify is the default program when these keys are triggered, as oppose to iTunes.
The software Beardedspice provides a user-friendly approach to prioritizing Spotify for your media keys. It runs in the background and gives you a few simple settings in the Mac menu bar. It just works.
The tricks we used before were far less than ideal, requiring you to start up QuickTime in the background, or do some serious hacking to system files within iTunes.app. NoMitsu has created a one-click installer that patches the remote control daemon, the app responsible for managing the media keys. Just download the patch and double-click on it. After entering your password, your media keys will be free from iTunes' grasp.
I presume you have already tried this. As I recall the media keys will control the last program that was active so if Spotify was the last media app you had open (and is currently open) then the media keys will control that. Hope this helps you out.
I'v had this problem for years and in my case it goes beyond iTunes. When working in Keynote or another application that "claims" the media keys, controlling Spotify (or other music players) won't work.
Adding on to what @sjg said, you could have Spotify opened at startup (presuming that you don't care for iTunes to open at startup) so that you can have the media keys work with Spotify right from login. Again, this is only a workaround and not really a full solution, but if you want it to be opened at startup, go to Spotify>Preferences and scroll down to "Open Spotify automatically after you login to the computer" and select Open automatically.
BeardedSpice is a menubar application for Mac OSX that allows you to control web based media players and some native apps with the media keys found on Mac keyboards. It is an extensible application that works with Chrome (Canary, Yandex, Chromium) and Safari, and can control any tab with an applicable media player.
No need to change libraries or programs or download tools. Everything you need is on hand and easy to use. The tip from 2007 still works: set with "Automator" what you want to do and asign it to a keyboard-shortcut.
Say for instance Spotify is not playing nice with the media keys (i.e. they don't do anything when you have Spotify open). I usually quit Spotify and restart it and when it reopens the media keys automatically work again.
Obviously, this is less than ideal and definitely doesn't do anything to make Spotify the 'default' media key program, but it does act as a soft reset for the keys which can help until a better answer is created by Apple / Spotify.
Mac Media Key Forwarder 3.1 works with Catalina, and creates a simple menu that you can select behavior from, such as choosing iTunes instead of Spotify or vice versa. The app will no longer be developed, but the 3.1 version works and is downloadable from this file-transfer site operated by its developer.
BeardedSpice tries to automatically guess which tab it should control for you. When you press any media key or BeardedSpice shortcut with BeardedSpice open, it will automatically control the site currently playing media. If you have no playing sites, it will try to control the currently focused tab (if it is one of our supported sites). If BeardedSpice failed to do either, it will automatically control the first.
Using a 3rd-party keyboard? Or even a keyboard with no multimedia keys? No problems, BeardedSpice allows you to set your multimedia keys under the shortcuts tab, so you can use any key (or key combination) of your liking.
Just a nudge on this - now six months since I posted the original message and even after the latest update to Audirvana the media play controls still refuse to work when using the app, but work just fine with other audio apps.
I have a nifty keyboard with media controls (play, stop, pause, forward and reverse). Is there any way to use them to control Youtube? That is, so that it pauses when I hit the pause key and moves back and forth between clips on the playlist with the forward and reverse keys?
This topic describes how to install the universal forwarder software on a *nix host, such as Linux, Solaris, or Mac OS X. It assumes that you plan to install directly onto the host, rather than use a deployment tool. This type of deployment best suits these needs:
A tar file contains only the files needed to install and run the universal forwarder and can be installed wherever you have permissions. Installation packages contain logic that checks for software dependencies and install in a predetermined place, depending on your operating system.
Running the universal forwarder as a root user is not a security best practice. However, a user running the forwarder as a basic non-root user cannot fully manage the forwarder or add-ons. To resolve this issue, the universal forwarder installer creates "least privileged" users with capabilities specific to running the universal forwarder.
If Splunk is unable to install a least privileged user, it will install as a non-root user. To learn more about how to add, enable, disable, and troubleshoot least privileged users, see Secure you *nix universal forwarder with a least privileged user.
Do not use the AIX version of tar to unarchive the file. Use the GNU version instead. This version comes with the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications package that comes with a base AIX installation. If your AIX does not come with this package installed, you can download it from IBM. See IBM AIX Toolbox download information.
Forwarder is used to send logs from the customer environment to the Chronicleinstance. This is used when the customers want to send the logs directly toChronicle, and do not wish to use the cloud buckets to ingest data, or thelogtype does not have native ingestion via 3rd party API. The forwarder can beused as a ready to deploy solution, instead of manually incorporating theingestion API.
You can install the forwarder on a variety of Linux distributions includingDebian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Suse. Google Cloud provides the software using aDocker container. You can run and manage the Docker container on either aphysical or virtual machine running Linux.
Google Cloud tailors the configuration files to the forwarder instance withspecific metadata as shown in the output section. You can modify theconfiguration files, as per your requirements, and include information aboutthe log types to be ingested under the collectorssection. If you need more information on the configuration settings, contactyour Chronicle support.
This two file system lets you store authentication credentials in a separatefile for enhanced security. You can store the FORWARDER_NAME.conffile in aversion control repository or any open configuration management system. You can store theFORWARDER_NAME_auth.conf file directly in the physical or virtual machine running the forwarder.
Chronicle provides forwarder configuration files specific to your operating system (Linux or Windows). Download the files from the link provided by your Chronicle representative to a local directory on your laptop (for example, to a directory named chronicle). After you complete the following steps, transfer the configuration files from your laptop to your forwarder /opt/chronicle/config directory within the user's home directory.
You must make your Splunk account credentials available to the Chronicle forwarder.You can do this by creating a creds.txt file or by adding user and passwordfields in the splunk settings section of your FORWARDER_NAME_auth.conf file. Thefollowing two procedures describe each method. Use only one method. Therecommended method is to use the FORWARDER_NAME_auth.conf file.
Chronicle forwarder can work as a Syslog server. You can configure anyappliance or server that supports sending syslog data over a TCP or UDPconnection to forward their data to Chronicle forwarder. You cancontrol the exact data that the appliance or the server sends to theChronicle forwarder. The Chronicle forwarder can then forwardthe data to Chronicle.
The FORWARDER_NAME.conf configuration file (provided byGoogle Cloud) specifies which ports to monitor for each type offorwarded data (for example, port 10514). By default, the Chronicleforwarder accepts both TCP and UDP connections.
You can enable TLS for the Syslog connection to the Chronicleforwarder. In the Chronicle forwarder configuration file(FORWARDER_NAME.conf), specify the location of your owngenerated certificate and certificate key as shown in the following example: 2ff7e9595c
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