How to set up App Shortcuts for Music.app in Catalina?
I'd like to set up System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts to activate Music's View as Songs via a ⌃ + ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + L shortcut, but it's not activating after setting it up.
To clarify, my goal is to activate this in Music.app:
In System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts I've set the following:
Unfortunately this doesn't work as it used to for iTunes.app.
Solution 1:
I have just verified this feature actually does still work but you aren't using it properly, there is no need for the ->
syntax, I am unsure where this comes from but I have never seen that used.
The correct way to create this shortcut is as shown below:
- Open System Preferences.app
- Navigate to 'Keyboard'
- Select 'Shortcuts'
- Choose 'App Shortcuts'
- Add a shortcut using the + button.
- Choose the app 'Music'
- Set the menu title to the text name of the menu title 'as Songs' ignoring where in the menu bar it is.
- Set a shortcut by clicking the field, then pressing the keys.
- Finalise by clicking 'Add'.
You can verify this has worked as the shortcut will be shown in the menu
How it should look:
Note: It is not possible to distinguish between identically named menu items in the same application.