Bind "media" keys on MacBook keyboard to application menu items

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Published on 2009-12-07T14:46:38Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 14:06 UTC
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Currently, I am using PandoraBoy to listen to my Pandora stations. In the preferences, it allows you to set global hotkeys to control playing, like/dislike, volume, stations, etc.

What I would like to do is allow the built-in media keys on my MacBook Pro's keyboard (F7-F12: Previous, Play/Pause, Next, Mute, Volume Up, Volume Down) to control PandoraBoy like they do iTunes.

Right now, I am using Command-F(7-12) to control it, but that requires me to hold down the "fn" and command keys

Is there a way to bind these commands to the media keys without needing to function-shift them?

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