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94 points

Play button (media buttons) behavior has changed for the worse.

On MacOs High Sierra the play button and next and prev (media buttons in the top of keyboard) are controlling what is in the main window and not my music from Spotify or iTunes.

This removes the idea of the button as I now have to open iTunes and then pause the music. Before I could just press the button when in Safari to pause the music

If I am on youtube it now pauses he video, that before could be done with just a mouse click

Please let us choose in preferences -> keyboard how these buttons behave.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 26, 2017 10:14 AM

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l008com

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88 points

Posted on Oct 2, 2017 2:51 AM

I agree, the new behavior is terrible and not very useful. Now when I'm on a web page and a video starts playing, I hit 'pause' to stop my music, so I can actually hear the video. But instead, the music keeps playing, and the VIDEO is paused. Completely backwards. And very often, the play/pause buttons will do nothing at all. Like they lose track of what app they are supposed to be working in and just do nothing.

The media buttons used to act like this in iPhoto/Photos I believe, but they'd control iTunes in any other app. Even back then, I used to want to change them so they ONLY ever worked to control iTunes. But now, they've gone in the exact wrong direction with this feature. If enough people complain, they absolutely will fix it....

Remember everyone, http://www.apple.com/feedback if you want to complain in a format that will actually count.

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Jan 27, 2018 9:59 AM in response to laurenfromws

I keep leaving feedback at Apple but nothing changes. What a waste of time. This problem is simply awful.

I find myself hardly listening to music anymore on my Mac.

yendoggy

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30 points

Feb 5, 2018 2:37 PM in response to krislinus

The little "reflex" program that someone wrote and I saw in this thread has absolutely worked for me so far! thanks to who did that! sorry I dont have time to search for your name now!