Comments on: Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:35:10 +0000

If you’re on a Mac, Musicality (industriousone.com/musicality) has global keyboard shortcuts. Works with the media keys and the remote too, plus supports Growl and Last.fm.

By: Dan Egbert

Dan Egbert — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:19:11 +0000

On Windows, you can also use WinGrooves (http://www.wingrooves.com) which has built-in customizable hotkey support.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:39:30 +0000

Thanks pharkink, your script worked really well.

By: James Hartig

James Hartig — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:44:39 +0000

Hey skkf, could you email me: fastest963 at gmail. Comments are the best place to start debugging this. However, before you email me:

1) Open Start-> Run
2) Type in %AppData% and tell me where it goes when you email me.

By: skkf

skkf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:02:40 +0000

I think I know why it’s not working. I’ve changed my localization of %AppData%. Now it’s under E:\system\Application Data, and when I’ve pasted the folder “GroovesharkDesktop.7F9BF17D6D9CB2159C78A6A6AB076EA0B1E0497C.1″ to the original path G:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\ the keyboard helper is able to write pressed hotkeys to the file, but grooveshark does not respond. Is there any other way then changing back my appdata localization?

By: skkf

skkf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:39:21 +0000

“We received yout hotkey but we could not write to the file.”

I’m running it on windows xp sp3. What’s wrong?

By: pharkink

pharkink — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:06:34 +0000

Instars app works, but I couldn’t get media keys (the play/pause button) to work, and customizing the keys didn’t work so well either. Below is a mini script I’ve made that can be used in gnome-keybinding-properties.
Here’s how you use it:
1) Open gnome-keybinding-properties (in ubuntu, click System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts).
2) Click on ‘Add’
3) Fill in a name, e.g. “Grooveshark Play/Pause”
4) Fill in the command: “gs-cmd playpause”
5) Click “Apply”, then close the ‘custom shortcut’ window
6) Assign a shortcut to the new command, by clicking on it and then hitting the (media) key for the action. For Play/Pause it should say “XF86AudioPlay”.

repeat steps 2-6 for other commands like ‘next’ or ‘previous’.

Save this script as file ‘gs-cmd’ in a location that’s in the user’s path.

The script, gs-cmd :

#!/bin/sh
basedir=~/.appdata
ctnt=`ls -A $basedir`
for dr in $ctnt
do
mtch=`expr match “$dr” “GroovesharkDesktop.”`
if [ $mtch -eq 19 ]
then
filedir=$basedir/$dr/”Local Store/”
cd “$filedir”
echo “$1″ > “shortcutAction.txt”
fi
done

By: Intars Students

Intars Students — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:33:54 +0000

@Steve Farbota – well, there are one who will work in Ubuntu http://github.com/intarstudents/GSDesktop-Helper

For now no cool easy use package to install, but ruff git action, sadly, but will try to change that.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:09:23 +0000

If someone wants to make one, we’re all for it. :)

By: Steve Farbota

Steve Farbota — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:09:07 +0000

Will there be application for Linux?