iTunes 9: No Miniplayer w/Green Button!

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iTunes 9: No Miniplayer w/Green Button!

In theory, if your iTune's window is open, and you click on the green button, it should shrink up into the Miniplayer--this is what it used to do, anyway. But now, if you're in miniplayer, you click on green an open up the window, you're stuck. At least I am. I hit the green button again, and it does not go back to miniplayer. I have to pick that option from under "View" to get the window to shrink.

Am I missing something? Is there some preference or something that I didn't check off--or is this a bug in iTunes 9? "Help" gives me no answers.

Aluminum Macbook 2.4Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Sep 10, 2009 9:26 AM

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Jovial Jay

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Sep 10, 2009 9:32 AM in response to JE13

I noticed this as well. You have to use the View Menu or the Keyboard shortcut now. I'm looking to remap Ctrl-Cmd-Z to Show miniplayer instead.

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JE13 Author

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Sep 10, 2009 9:42 AM in response to Jovial Jay

Looks like I'm sending a bug report to apple...

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varjak paw

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Sep 10, 2009 9:56 AM in response to JE13

Hold down the Option key and click the green button.

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Sep 10, 2009 10:05 AM in response to varjak paw

Holding down the option key worked for me. Thanks Dave. Other application windows are also acting rather strange in SL. Will post if I find work arounds.

RAP

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Sep 10, 2009 10:29 AM in response to JE13

I sent a bug report too....I hope it's a bug as it is counter intuitive and I previously used the green maximize/minimize very often to go from Mini Player to full screen.

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JE13 Author

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Sep 10, 2009 10:32 AM in response to Chris Doyle

I sent a bug report too....I hope it's a bug as it is counter intuitive and I previously used the green maximize/minimize very often to go from Mini Player to full screen.

I agree. I'd like it to go back the way it was rather than requiring that I hit the option key. I got very used to that max/mini feature and used it a great deal.

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JE13 Author

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Sep 10, 2009 10:37 AM in response to varjak paw

Thanks, Dave! That did "solve" the problem, though it should be noted that iTunes Help still says that all you have to do is hit the green button to get back to the miniplayer. No where is the option key mentioned. Maybe I should have written into Apple about the "Help" section instead?

I hope they do go back to the way it was. The option key isn't that much of a chore, but I liked just clicking on the green button, no second thought.

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Sep 10, 2009 7:43 PM in response to JE13

Just wanted to get my 2 cents in on this too. Its driving me crazy as well, hope this gets fixed or option added to choose which action the button will do.

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Sep 10, 2009 8:07 PM in response to Shane Spillman

Driving me crazy as well. They need to at least add a preference setting to change this back!

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studiojg

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Sep 11, 2009 12:03 PM in response to JE13

Totally agree but the key command is now shift command m. Why must we keep changing things that worked? It's apparently under view in the menu. Option is nice too. My green button just makes the window bigger than it was. How does that help me? Also, not a snow leopard thing but a itunes 9 issue. I'm still in tiger. As far as the green button ordeal in the SL don't know yet.

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Sep 11, 2009 12:27 PM in response to JE13

me too~!!

i consider this a real bug~!

though im afraid they did it on purpose...

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teh ibn

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Sep 11, 2009 2:06 PM in response to JE13

adding my 2 cents too...this is how it works in windows and they might be trying to standardize it. I want it back to just the green button!

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mpayne2k

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Sep 11, 2009 2:41 PM in response to teh ibn

I actually like this better! Clicking on the Green button to me means making iTunes go full (or close to) full screen. Clicking the option button then Green to get the mini-player seems natural to me as well. Thanks Apple!

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Sep 11, 2009 3:06 PM in response to JE13

I got freaked out at first about this too! ACK what a nuisance. At least i can get the mini player back. NOW if they could do something about the equilizer?? I used that a lot switching between types of music. It doesnt even HAVE a green button. Not very thoughtful of them. anybody find a solution to that??

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Answer 15

Sep 11, 2009 4:07 PM in response to JE13

I, too, want the old functionality where the green button toggles the mini-player. Hope they fix this real soon!

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