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I prefer to use banshee to listen to music on OS X rather than iTunes.

The fn keys from F7, F8 & F9 have music transport icons (rev, play-pause, skip) and by default map to iTunes.

So if I'm listening to music in banshee and I hit F8 (play/pause), it launches iTunes.

Is it possible to remap these transport keys to my music player of choice?

Chealion
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Unfortunately, the application has to support the media keys, there's no way I'm aware of for the end-user to remap them. I don't think Banshee supports media keys in OS X.

There is an add-on for Songbird that gives that application on Apple media key support, if you're interested in exploring other playback options.

EDIT:

Another option I just thought of is to use another Keyboard driver with more settings for remapping thee keys. I think that Alessandro Levi Montalcini's excellent USB Driver, USB Overdrive, can remap these keys. I haven't tested it myself, though.

ghoppe
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Try using Shift + option + play / pause / ff / rwd.

Itunes ignores this combination. Works for spotify and clementine.

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