Multimedia keys & iTunes

[pandronic]

Hello, great new features in 0.2.7, but I can't enjoy one of them: control via multimedia keys. iTunes just keeps popping up even if it isn't running when I press the Play/Pause button and I haven't found a way to disable that.

Do I have to uninstall iTunes or is there a option that I missed somewhere in the OS or iTunes that disables this behavior.

Thanks

[straycat]

this is an osx fascist feature which can't be disabled.
see below.

multimedia keys work-arounds

apple remote fix

[pandronic]

I solved it. I uninstalled iTunes

[rune]

If you are not comfortable with uninstalling iTunes you can just make it non-executable by altering its file permissions. Open up the Terminal and run:
sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app

This will remove the executable bit from iTunes.app's permissions, effectively making it unable to start. Really only practical if you aren't actually using iTunes at all.

The same command, but with +x instead of -x will make it executable again:
sudo chmod +x /Applications/iTunes.app

[ashcroft]

Maybe relevant for this topic:
User Customization: Global Vox Shortcuts (Play/Pause, Previous, Next)
http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/forums/thread-145.html

[Traviscz]

http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/stop-i...eys-on-mac

Download and install this app.

[larzon]

(2011-01-25 19:50:35)Traviscz Wrote:  http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/stop-i...eys-on-mac

Download and install this app.

OMG! Awesome! TY!

[ArloL]

I'd like this behavior to work just as the OS X natives e.g. QT, iTunes: If Vox was the last active media app it should listen to and consume the events. VLC has solved this issue.

Their source code links to http://overooped.com/post/2593597587/mediakeys and https://gist.github.com/511181

When you download the current sources and open /extras/package/macosx/vlx.xcodeproj the files can be found under Classes/Imported Code/SPMediaKeyTap