Computers, Laptops & Tablets Apple Use iTunes Faster With These Keyboard Shortcuts by Mark Harris Writer Mark Harris is a former writer for Lifewire who wrote about the digital music scene and streaming music services in an easy to understand, no-nonsense manner. our editorial process Mark Harris Updated on February 04, 2020 The Ultimate Guide to Keyboard Shortcuts The Ultimate Guide to Keyboard Shortcuts Introduction Windows Timesavers The Best Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for Better Productivity How to Use the Shortcut Alt + Underline Shortcut to Create New Folders Essential Shortcuts for iTunes Mac, iOS & iPad Quick Tricks The Best Mac Shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts for Finder Mac Startup Keyboard Shortcuts 18 Shortcuts for Apple's iOS Shortcuts App iPad Keyboard Tips and Smart Keyboard Shortcuts Android & iPhone Shortcuts The Best Android Shortcuts You Should Be Using Create and Use iPhone X Shortcuts Email Shortcuts The 30 Best Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts for 2020 How to Use Yahoo Mail Keyboard Shortcuts The Complete Apple Mail Shortcut List Shortcuts in iOS Mail Delete Shortcut Keys for Popular Email Programs How to Use Outlook.com Keyboard Shortcuts Create Text Snippets With Shortcuts in Mac OS X Mail Online & Browser Shortcuts Top 36 Shortcuts for Edge and IE 11 Keyboard Shortcuts: Google Chrome for Windows Create Web Page Shortcuts in Chrome for Windows Control Safari Windows With Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcuts for Safari Toolbars Shortcuts for Safari on OS X & Sierra Excel Shortcuts The 23 Best Excel Shortcuts Shortcut Excel's Fill Down Command Shortcut the Current Date/Time Formatting Numbers Adding Worksheets Shortcut to Saving Your Work Creating a Chart MAX Function Shortcut More Office Shortcuts Top 10 Microsoft Word Shortcuts The 5 Best Hidden Word Shortcuts Add Shortcut Keys to AutoText Entries Uppercase Shortcut Key How to Reset Keyboard Shortcuts in Word Shortcut to Speed Up PowerPoint Presentations Other Useful Shortcuts The Best Google Docs Shortcuts 18 Shortcuts for Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Changing Linux Mint Cinnamon Shortcuts Fedora GNOME Keyboard Shortcuts Maya Keyboard Shortcuts Create or Reassign Keyboard Shortcuts in MS Office Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop CC Time-Saving Fill Tool Shortcuts in Photoshop The 5 Most Useful GIMP Keyboard Shortcuts How to Use the GIMP Keyboard Shortcut Editor Shortcuts to Type a Tilde Mark Igor Ustynskyy / Getty Images Tweet Share Email The Windows version of iTunes has an easy-to-use menu system, so why use keyboard shortcuts at all? Knowing the essential shortcuts in iTunes (or any other program for that matter) helps to speed up tasks. The graphical user interface (GUI) in iTunes may be easy enough to use, but it can be slow if you need to do a lot of music library management tasks. If for example, you need to create several playlists or need to quickly pull up song information, then knowing specific keyboard shortcuts can really speed things up. Knowing how to get to a particular option via a keyboard shortcut also accelerates your workflow. Rather than navigating through endless menus looking for the relevant option, you can get the job done with just a few key presses. To discover the essential keyboard commands to efficiently control iTunes, take a look at the handy table below. Essential iTunes Keyboard Shortcuts for Managing Your Digital Music Library Playlist Shortcuts New playlist CTRL + N New Smart Playlist CTRL + ALT + N New playlist from selection CTRL + SHIFT + N Song Selection and Playback Add file to library CTRL + O Select all songs CTRL + A Clear song selection CTRL + SHIFT + A Play or pause selected song Spacebar Highlight currently playing song in the list CTRL + L Get song information CTRL + I Show where song is located (via Windows) CTRL + SHIFT + R Fast forward search in playing song CTRL + ALT + Right Cursor Key Fast backwards search in playing song CTRL + ALT + Left Cursor Key Skip forwards to the next song Right Cursor Key Skip backwards to the previous song Left Cursor Key Skip forwards to the next album SHIFT + Right Cursor Key Skip backwards to the previous album SHIFT + Left Cursor Key Volume level up CTRL + Up Cursor Key Volume level down CTRL + Down Cursor Key Sound on / off CTRL + ALT + Down Cursor Key Enable / disable mini player mode CTRL + SHIFT + M iTunes Store Navigation iTunes Store home page CTRL + Shift + H Refresh page CTRL + R or F5 Go back one page CTRL + [ Go forward one page CTRL + ] iTunes View Controls View iTunes music library as a list CTRL + SHIFT + 3 View iTunes music library as album list CTRL + SHIFT + 4 View iTunes music library as a grid CTRL + SHIFT + 5 Cover Flow mode (version 11 or lower) CTRL + SHIFT + 6 Customize your view CTRL + J Enable / disable column browser CTRL + B Show / hide iTunes sidebar CTRL + SHIFT + G Enable / disable visualizer CTRL + T Full screen mode CTRL + F iTunes Miscellaneous Shortcuts iTunes preferences CTRL + , Eject a CD CTRL + E Display audio equalizer controls CTRL + SHIFT + 2