BeardedSpice Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Keyboard won't control Music app if Youtube in Safari is open

  Found this article which suggests Mac Media Key Forwarder or BeardedSpice. Source: 12 months ago

• Is there a way to skip forwards and backwards in youtube with media keys while unfocused?

  If you're on macOS, BeardedSpice should work: https://beardedspice.github.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

• K3 Multimedia Keys on MacOS

  Use beardedspice to map the multimedia keys: https://beardedspice.github.io on the K3. Source: about 2 years ago

• Lock keyboard media keys to Apple Music, is there an app for this?

  I think https://beardedspice.github.io used to do this but it hasn't been updated since 2017 and doesn't work properly for me. Source: about 2 years ago

• The media key controls the last active player.

  BeardedSpice lets you bind them to a specific player. Source: over 2 years ago

• Media Buttons for music app only

  In Firefox and Chrome/Edge there's a pref to disable media keys. If you use Safari I think you need a 3rd party tool like BeardedSpice to disable it. Source: over 2 years ago

• If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

  You can use software like this to customize media keys: http://beardedspice.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Play Button Doesn't Always Operate iTunes

  Whoops, sorry about that. No promises on this app though http://beardedspice.github.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• media keys stopped working

  It works if I use something like Bearded Spice, but it should also work natively. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Lesser Known App Recommendations

  This is quite obscure, but macmediakeyforwarder is pretty essential for me. Since High Sierra I think, macOS has made it so the media key plays/pauses the last audio source you were using - including web media such as YouTube. I only ever want it to control Spotify, which is what this app does. I haven’t looked at the GitHub pages in ages and just noticed it’s no longer maintained, and the developer suggests using... Source: about 3 years ago