The Mother of Invention

Sometimes, the little things in life can be so rewarding. Like not having to toggle between applications to skip a song in my playlist. I wrote three lines of AppleScript:

tell application "iTunes"
	next track
end tell

compiled them as an application called ‘skip’, and popped them in my Applications folder. After a catalog refresh, I can now invoke Quicksilver, type ‘sk’ (it auto-completes to ‘skip’), hit enter, and move to the next song. All without having to leave the application I live most of my life in … vi.

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  • http://www.robertpeake.com/index.php?/archives/93-More-on-Hands-Free-iTunes-Tuning.html Robert Peake

    Inspired by the combination of AppleScript and Quicksilver, I cooked up a hands-free way to skip tracks in my playlist without activating the iTunes application or taking my hands off the keyboard. Then it occured to me that I could combine this with the