Hi
No no this is not TuneIn, this is iTunes and they are completely
separate things. iTunes is not Tunein.
On 1/4/2016 4:45 PM, kitty hevener via Talk wrote:
Rod, will this ap work with tunein.com or are we dealing with two
completely different animals?
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton via Talk
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 3:59 PM
To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Subject: New app - Itunes Enhance!
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve submitted a new app which
enhances the accessibility and functionality of Itunes.
I have included the documentation for the app below for your convenience.
The app, called Itunes Enhance, is found in the Program Enhancements
category, next to the Itunes app, created by AI Squared.
The App Central URL is:
https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Apps/App_Details/?scriptid=1432
In summary, the app defines three program-specific hotkeys for
toggling playback, as well as rewind and fast ford.
I hope you enjoy the added functionality provided by this app, and,
for the perennially curious, please read on for the details. <grin>
All the best,
Rod Hutton
Welcom to Itunes Enhance!
This app enhances the accessibility and functionality of Itunes,
Apple’s popular media player.
Features of the initial release of Itunes Enhance
This app was initially created to correct two problems for
screen-reader users of Itunes:
First, you will notice that the first option in the Controls menu is
Play, and the hotkey assigned to it is Space. However, you may have
noticed that pressing the spacebar does not, in fact, always toggle
playback, and this depends on the control which has focus in Itunes.
It certainly works when focus is on a tree view or list view, but not
when on the many static boxes, and certainly not when focus is on
buttons which serve other purposes, such as the sorting of content.
Clearly, there is need for a hotkey which the user can count on to
toggle the playback of the current item.
Second, you will also notice that the Controls menu contains no option
for rewinding and fast forwarding the currently playing track; indeed,
a search for Itunes hotkeys on the web will lead to many independent
web pages which include hotkeys for these two functions in their
lists, and, typically, Control-Alt-Left arrow and Control-Alt-Right
arrow, for rewind and fast forward, respectively. Further evidence
that these hotkeys once worked in Itunes is that the set file supplied
by AI Squared have these hotkeys configured as program-specific and
left undefined; normally, they are configured as global, and are two
of the four used to adjust speech parameters. Certainly there is
evidence that rewind and fast forward once were part of the
functionality of Itunes, and clearly there is a need for access to
these functions,if Itunes supports them, and, if so, for
easily-accessible hotkeys for them.
Controlling Itunes behind the scenes
The result of my search of the web has revealed that there is a way to
control Itunes other than through the normal user interface, namely,
through its programmable COM object. In the same way that app
developers can create apps to control Window-Eyes for specific
purposes, and this is because it also has a programmable COM object,
the functions of Itunes can be controlled in the same way. My
examination of the Itunes COM object has revealed that, among many
functions, the playback of the current track can be started, paused,
rewound and fast forwarded. It was a simple matter for me, then, to
create an app which assigns these functions to Window-Eyes hotkeys.
The app menu
In the initial release of the app, the Itunes Enhance option on the
Window-Eyes Apps menu has a single option, namely, Help, which opens
the typical Help dialog for the app. This contains the read-only edit
box containing the present documentation, as well as a button which
opens the Hotkey Manager dialog where you can review and reassign the
app hotkeys.
The hotkeys and their functions
In the initial release of Itunes Enhance, three program-specific
hotkeys are assigned:
PlayPause. This hotkey (F12, by default) will start and pause
playback of the current track; it will also resume normal playback if
the track is in rewind or fast forward mode. If you wish to
completely stop rather than pause the current track, press the
dedicated Itunes hotkey, which, as of this writing, is Control-..
Rewind. When a track is playing, this hotkey (F10, by default) will
start rewind mode, where you can hear fragments of the track audio as
it skips backward; normal playback can be resumed by pressing the
PlayPause hotkey; also, normal playback will resume automatically when
the beginning of the track is reached.
FastForward. When a track is playing, this hotkey (F11, by default)
will start fast forward mode, where you can hear fragments of the
track audio as it skips forward; normal playback can be resumed by
pressing the PlayPause hotkey; if the end of the track is reached,
normal playback will resume with the next track in the currrent list
of tracks, or, if no tracks remain, playback will stop.
The Future
It is possible to add features to Itunes Enhance in the future.
Feel free to write to me about your experiences with Itunes and this app.
I hope you enjoy using Itunes Enhance!
Rod Hutton
January 2016
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