What Problems with iTunes?
I’ve been using iTunes for the past few years with great success. I know there are some of you who absolutely hate Apple and all they stand for. Quite honestly, I don’t like their closed source way of thinking either, but I must admit they have products that work….. most of the time.
In the past I had to use a hack to get my multimedia keys to work with iTunes. After installing this small script in the plug-ins folder, I was able to control playback with the keys on the side of my laptop. Even when iTunes was minimized in my systray, the keys still worked.
Lately iTunes has been crapping out though. Apple rewrote part of iTunes code to allow it to natively use the multimedia keys without having to hack it with an additional plugin. However, now the problem is a “doubling up” in the commands. I’m not sure why, but apparently both iTunes and Windoze seem to be fighting for control. Now when I press mute, iTunes mutes the computer, then Windoze unmutes it. Its the same with the play/pause button and the volume buttons. This is quite annoying, but Apple has yet to step forward and even acknowledge the problem.
You can find out more information here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=881133
