iTunes 7 - Equalizer keyboard shortcut

Sun, 8 October 2006

When iTunes 7 came out a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see the equalizer button removed from the bottom right corner.

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Fortunately, there is another way to activate equalizer, through the menu bar, View | Show Equilizer.

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Or simply using the keyboard shortcut, errrr… Hang on, that’s gone too! Houston Cupertino, we have a problem!

But there is something we can do to fix this. In OS X you can create custom keyboard shortcuts, and this is exactly what we will use.So, open your System Preferences and click on Keyboard and Mouse. Then select Keyboard Shortcuts.

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Click on the plus sign to add a custom shortcut. In a new window that opens, or rather drops, select iTunes application, in the Menu Title box type Show Equalizer (case sensitive) and then click in Keyboard Shortcut box and key in your preferred shortcut (I used Cmnd-Shift-E).

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Then click Add and close the System Preferences.

In order to make this work, you will need to log out and log in again. Now, when you open iTunes, in the menu bar click View and you will see that Show Equializer has a shortcut assigned to it.

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From now on, any time you need equalizer, you simply key Cmnd-Shift-E (or whatever shortcut you opted for) and there it is, right on your screen.

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8 Responses to “iTunes 7 - Equalizer keyboard shortcut”

  1. Cliff said: Mon, 9 October 2006 at 13:42

    This is an interesting improvement/degradation of the software. I wonder why?

  2. Martin said: Tue, 10 October 2006 at 15:31

    Interesting possibility that I didn’t know about. But what I would really like to know is this: Why on earth is the equalizer no longer able to change preset according to what setting has been applied to songs? For instance, in a playlist I may have applied many different equalizer presets for different songs, and the equalizer used to change its settings according to this. Not so in iTunes 7: you pick a setting and the equalizer just stupidly keeps sitting there, no matter what setting is applied to the song that’s playing. Why? Is there any way to get around this?

  3. Tom said: Fri, 17 November 2006 at 06:28

    I’m surprised they kept the equalizer, to be honest. It’s terrible by Apple’s standards.

  4. lucas said: Sat, 18 November 2006 at 00:32

    I have PC… is there a way to do this with PC or am I up the creek without a paddle

  5. Moofius said: Fri, 8 December 2006 at 03:30

    Or… you can simply press elevator+apple+2 :]

  6. locus said: Fri, 31 August 2007 at 22:15

    I came across this looking for anything quicker than ‘Alt V, Q’ on windows..
    and that turned out to be the same # of keypresses,

    so

    meh..

  7. jr said: Sat, 10 November 2007 at 11:46

    THAnks for the tip!! this by far the best instructions out there, not to mention, it worked the 1st try. simply amazing!

  8. Shaman said: Fri, 30 November 2007 at 23:42

    Thank’s a lot! That is just awesome tip for iTunes!

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