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[rockNme2349]

For anyone developing with iTunes in windows, i would definately look into iTunes COM Interface.

I used that to develop an itunes remote that allows me to remotely control itunes from any web broweser, even my phone, and gives me more controls such as typing in song names and playing them, and almost anything, even if there is no hotkey.
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[benbenben]

thanks for the scripts here, i used the first one and just mapped them to the media keys, since those only worked when itunes was the active window....

SWEET!!!

I'm very pleased.

[ellipticaltable]

If you want to be a bit fancier in talking to iTunes, you can do the following. It uses the iTunes SDK and ws4ahk (http://www.autohotkey.net/~easycom/). Basically, you get the full SDK functionality directly in your script.

This code doesn't do anything particularly useful at the moment. Instead, it shows how to do various things.

[darkpaladin79]

Well, I've been using this script happily for almost a year now (I think, don't really know), but every now and then it stops working. I think it has something to do with things inside iTunes being selected, because it works after I bring it up and down again. But, I took the examples from ellipticaltable and rewrote the whole thing with the COM and ws4ahk. You need that ws4ahk.ahk file that he specifies, and right now I have the keys set to my mouse. So change those and you should be good to go! No more random desyncs for me.

[mashenden]

I need a AHK script using the iTunes COM. I have it in VBS and AutoIT, but am not real sure on how to convert either of them to AHK.

Here is what I have so far with your help:

[erictheturtle]

Hope this code isn't too late for you mashenden. It's untested, but this is basically how it could work.