Rewind button highlighted as default (versus Play button)

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Rewind button highlighted as default (versus Play button)

I'm using iTunes 10.4 on a Mac running Lion and lately the keyboard controls have been giving me problems; when pressing the space bar to pause the track, it instead skips to the beginning of the track or the previous track played. Upon closer inspection, the Rewind button on iTunes seems to be highlighted instead of the Play button:

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No efforts to highlight the Play button including manually selecting the correct button, restarting iTunes, or reinstalling iTunes has an any effect; the Rewind button continues to be highlighted as the default button.

Any ideas?

B.

24, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 9:17 AM

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Braumeister2 Author

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Aug 15, 2011 9:20 AM in response to Braumeister2

I attempted to paste a screen shot of the iTunes buttons into my original post but it didn't appear to work. Attached is another attempt.

As you can see, the Rewind button is highlighted as default versus the Play button.

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Braumeister2 Author

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Aug 23, 2011 4:58 AM in response to Braumeister2

Still not fixed with 10.4.1

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Sep 6, 2011 3:42 PM in response to Braumeister2

I have the same problem, and it's driving me crazy. Is there any way to change this? Apple, PLEASE?

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Oct 16, 2011 2:18 AM in response to Braumeister2

I second all of this. I have had this problem for a WHILE now. considering it started 2 months ago for Braumeister2

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Dec 25, 2011 6:36 PM in response to RawSienna

I've had this problem too, since about August. Any ideas why? I just bought a new Macbook Pro, and had a 2006 Macbook before. I also upgraded to Lion. No change at all.

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Feb 4, 2012 10:11 PM in response to Braumeister2

Same problem here. I've seen some relate it to updating to Lion, but I'm on Snow Leopard. It's happened in the last couple of versions of iTunes I've used (10.5). It happens randomly. Sometimes it will be working right. Other times it seems to do this for no apparent reason. I rarely use Command-Tab (I've seen that mentioned as a source), but only once when it has happened has it been after using Command-Tab. The rest of the times, no idea why. I can't force it to do it by using Command-Tab, either. Very strange. In normal use, none of the navigation buttons are highlighted, even when pressing them. But when this problem happens, the Rewind button has a blue halo around it.

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Feb 5, 2012 9:40 PM in response to Richard Kirkman1

I am having the same issue. Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a trusty MBP SantaRosa, iTunes 10.5.3 (3). I am a recent iPhone adopter if that rings anyone's bell.

BULLETIN: Option-Tab moves it to other fields (but not when focus is inside the Search field.) Maybe we've been hitting Option-Tab by mistake when trying to Command-Tab in and out of the program.

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Meglor

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Dec 12, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Braumeister2

Same issue with new itunes 11

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