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n8236

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I always thought u had to have iTunes open before you can press the "Play" button, but apparently not. So cool :cool:
 
Ummm, I don't think I got the memo..."Press Play"? The little 'play' button on the keyboard? Nothing happens when I press it.
 
New with Snow Leopard? With Leopard, my 13" MBP didn't open iTunes automatically when pressing on the Play/Pause button. Now it does!
 
Apple Remote?

Ummm, I don't think I got the memo..."Press Play"? The little 'play' button on the keyboard? Nothing happens when I press it.

Some of us have found that after 10.6 when we press the PLAY button on Apple Remote it opens I-Tunes. It sucks for those of us that use(d) Apple Remote for like Eye-TV or VLC. I'm glad someone found something good about it.
 
Some of us have found that after 10.6 when we press the PLAY button on Apple Remote it opens I-Tunes. It sucks for those of us that use(d) Apple Remote for like Eye-TV or VLC. I'm glad someone found something good about it.

Correct, and I certainly don't find that to be a feature, I think it's an annoyance and possibly a bug in SL that Apple overlooked. I have EyeTV and I use my iMac 24" as my main TV, I have to keep iTunes opened to the Store for the Apple remote not to interact with it. I hope this is just a bug and Apple fixes it.
 
WOW! Thanks for this! This is great! Now I just double-press the play button and iTunes just plays a random song!!!

I was just saying to my self no more than 5 minutes ago, "man I wish iTunes could just play a random song so I didn't have to find one to start with"

THANKS!
 
I doubt its a bug. My dell did that years ago. I guess Apple finally decided to add it to their keyboards. Good and bad I guess. Be better if there was an option to turn it on or off.
 
I always thought u had to have iTunes open before you can press the "Play" button, but apparently not. So cool :cool:

I noticed this too the other day, I enjoy little surprises like this. Its particularly nice to be able to open iTunes blind when my *cough* xbox is running on the other input of the same monitor.
 
It doesn't automatically play though, just opens itunes. So if you want to play music you need to press play twice.
 
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