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, More >