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Stop The “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Using Spotify On A Mac
This is only a little one but it was a right pain in the proverbial…. When you’re listening to Spotify on your Mac and you hit “Play / Pause” on your little Mac keyboard, sure Spotify pauses – but iTunes opens up too; if you’ve already got iTunes open (syncing your phone for example) then it starts playing the selected track.
What a pain!
Anyway, thankfully there’s a very easy fix…
Stopping Your Mac “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Listening To Spotify
All you need to do is hold down “Shift + Alt” whilst you press “Play / Pause” and voila, iTunes ignores the command and Spotify plays nicely.
See, what an easy fix – takes some getting used to but easy really…
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Mark is a director at The Design Loft; a marketing studio delivering design, web solutions, SEO, PPC, print, photography and digital marketing directly to SMEs and as white label products to marketing agencies and design houses, all from a base near Sheffield, England. He has consulted and worked on projects for the NHS, UK Ministry of Defence, Barclays PLC, JCB and many more as an experienced web designer, online marketer, IT trainer and casual geek. On top of that he has an affinity for his iPhone and his Mac and loves designing and building pretty websites. He is also a huge advocate of the .NET CMS mojoPortal and is one of the UK's leading mojoPortal skin / mojoPortal theme designers. He has a dog called Pete and is the frontman and bassist for Green Ball Flyers. He also dislikes coconut. Alot.
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