I love my CODE Keyboard, but it was driving me crazy that I couldn’t skip tracks in Spotify but my Macbook media keys could. After contacting support and doing quite a bit of research, I finally found a solution that will work for both CODE Keyboards and DAS Keyboards on OS X. (Tested on Yosemite with a CODE TKL Keyboard)
Steps:
(Not hard, just very verbose steps)
- Download and install Karabiner
- Open Karabiner and click the Misc & Uninstall tab
- Click Open private.xml. This will open a Finder window
- Edit private.xml with your favorite text editor
- Copy the XML from here and replace all of the XML in your open copy of private.xml
- Save and close private.xml
- Open Karabiner again, click the Change Key tab
- Click Reload XML
- Das Keyboard 4 – Media Keys should now be at the top, check that checkbox
- Skip songs in Spotify!
April 9, 2015 — 11:50 am
Thank you so so much for this. I just got this keyboard and was frustrated as well. The only other solution I found was using some wonky keybindings to applescript commands, which didn’t really seem like the best solution.
July 22, 2015 — 2:54 am
Thank you!
August 14, 2015 — 2:41 am
Thank you so much!
September 11, 2015 — 5:03 pm
Thanks 😀
February 1, 2016 — 3:01 pm
Thank you! Super helpful. 🙂
March 29, 2016 — 9:40 am
This worked super well!! Been looking for a solution but this solved it