There's a ton more like that, though, so take your pick. So, instead, I fell back to my favorite free third-party keyboard/shortcut tool, QUicksilver. I couldn't get my Mac to run the Automator service through a keyboard shortcut. I followed the top-rated answer at and created an Automator app running a simple Applescript: tell application 'Spotify' Looks pretty powerful.īut, this gets you pretty close?. I couldn't see how to create the steps shown in that link, but if you want to get into customizing that app, I'm sure it would work. I installed Karabiner, as linked in the question. If neither are opened, neither will launch, so the key doesn't default to iTunes for me. For me, the Play/Pause key plays whatever app (iTunes or Spotify) was last playing. Finally got to try this on a Mac with that kind of keyboard (iMac).
