How to stop iTunes from launching when using Keyboard media keys

Bug report submitted! I suggest that you do the same.

Same. Here's the bug report I submitted if you want a starting point. I'd suggest changing it at least a little though.

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Summary:
The play key (F8) is broken when using Snow Leopard.

Steps to Reproduce:
Attempt to start media playing inside any 3rd party application or Apple's own Logic Pro and iTunes will open.

Expected Results:
iTunes should not open. iTunes should only open when it's instructed to open by the user. Instead the media from the 3rd party application should play.

Actual Results:
iTunes opens and starts playing upon the next press of the Play button.

Regression:
It doesn't happen when QuickTime is open (even without a file loaded). Yay! QuickTime is clocking up a lot of sleep time on my computer... And iTunes won't respond to the play key when it's open at the iTunes Store page. Or if you unset the execute bit from the app. 🙂

Notes:
A number of people are very angry at this. It's worse than a lot of the crap we had to put up with using Windows. Seriously, it's time to revert the change. Please see here: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/macplay_pause_button_problem_itunes_spotify?utm_content=reply_link&utm_medium=email &utm_source=reply_notification#reply1622383

And also on your own forum, here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2122639
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I'd love to submit a bug report but when I visit http://radar.apple.com (in Safari) and log in with my Apple ID, I get a page that says "You do not have access to the Apple Bug Reporter (aka RadarWeb)." Sigh.

You need at least a free ADC account. Go here: http://developer.apple.com/products/membership.html Sign up on the bottom left (Online Membership).

This stinks, c'mon apple pull yer fingers out, and give us back control of our pause/play button

I've created a "Serious Bug" on the Apple Bug Reporter.

Bug ID: 7442045

I'm having this problem, too. Agreed... Apple needs to revert this, or give us a setting where we can choose.

SO FRUSTRATING!

I was hoping to use my Mac Mini as a media center but this is preventing me from doing so...

For now I guess I'll just leave QuickTime running all the time. In the meantime I've submitted a bug and opened a ticket with Apple Support.

I had filed a formal bug report, and I received this official response today:

+Hello Michael,+

+This is a follow up to Bug ID# 7447076. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 7181014. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the State column, in this format: Duplicate/OrigBug#.+

+To request the status of the original bug, please update your report directly via the Apple Bug Reporter <http://bugreporter.apple.com>. Thank you for submitting this bug report. We truly appreciate your assistance in helping us discover and isolate bugs.+

+Best Regards,+

*+Apple employee's name+*
+Apple Developer Connection+
+Worldwide Developer Relations+

After this line "sudo curl http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~app26/itunes/iTunes -O".
The "sssportslap1:MacOS zhankaribzhanov$" part disappears. So the next line after link command is empty.

I received a response to my formal bug report today, and it was reclassified to exactly the same 'original bug ID' as MWYada above. I've tried to follow the instructions to follow the status of the original bug, but I don't seem to be able to do this (maybe I don't have enough privileges on my basic account?). If anyone is following the status of bug 7181014 could you please let us know more about it, or if you could tell me how to follow it myself that would be great. I'm wondering if Apple has truly classified it as a bug, or has just created a repository for complaints...

I'd also like to be able to follow this bug. I tried going to the bug reporter with my apple id, but wasn't able to bring anything up for 7181014.

Yes please fix this. It's really annoying and should be easy to have a setting to disable it.

I guess we can't view the status of bugs other people submitted?

sigh

Let's file a bug for that too. :]

Sorry if this is up somewhere else and I hadn't noticed. This was a life saver a few months ago, but I'd not like to try a different setup for myself and would like iTunes back. It seems to be killed altogether. For an unrelated reason, I did an OS-reinstall roughly a month ago - a bit surprised the re-install didn't override somehow, but I also have no idea what this script actually does, other than work.

Thanks!