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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
The software Mac Media Key Forwarder provides a user-friendly approach to prioritizing Spotify for your media keys. It runs in the background and gives you a few simple settings in the Mac menu bar. ...
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"Install Spotify" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software
Catalina requires all apps that are signed with developer IDs to be 'notarized' by Apple.
In the absence of an updated version from the developer, you can try the following:
Right-click and select "...
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Control Spotify with Media Keys
If nothing helps to make Spotify take over the keys, check if you have Google Music installed in Chrome apps, because it always takes over these keys. Removing the Chrome app immediately makes media ...
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Disabling / Uninstalling iTunes on macOS Mojave
Disable SIP
Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
Enter in sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app
Enter your password (it won’t be displayed on screen)
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Can I change the default music player app on my iPhone? If so, how?
Uninstall the default music app in iOS 11.
Restart. voila.
My headphone control now works with wynk music app.
control center also shows wynk music.
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Set up global shortcuts for media keys (next, prev, play/pause)
With the advent of Shortcuts on macOS Monterey, you don't need so many steps now.
You need to just create a shortcut which runs the macOS Play/Pause action and then make it a Quick Action, check ...
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"Install Spotify" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software
for older version of macOS
System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> check Allow Anywhere
for macOS Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave
$ sudo spctl --master-disable
But if the Move To Trash ...
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
After looking around for a while I finally found https://github.com/zsszatmari/MagicKeys
It is not specific to Spotify but will let you select any application to launch when a media key is pressed.
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
Settings>User & Groups>Login Items
remove Itunes helper
Add Spotify (check hide)
Restart your computer. It will always play Spotify since it's open in the background and not itunes.
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
As suggested in the comment by Beau Smith, the app BeardedSpice do an amazing job! Not only for Spotify but also for a lot of other services (Netflix, Youtube, SoundCloud, etc.)
BeardedSpice is a ...
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Can I listen music from USB-C port by using USB-C/Jack adapter trough MacBook Pro?
Yes, in general these USB to audio adapters work well with the MacBook Pro. I haven't tried the specific one you're linking, but I have tried others that worked without problems - no need to install ...
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Set up global shortcuts for media keys (next, prev, play/pause)
This solution is a bit of a workaround, but I think that it should work for you.
First, you can write some AppleScripts that will perform the actions Next, Prev., and Play/Pause. I found some ...
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
A quick update from March 2023, for anyone else who stumbled upon this post:
At time of typing, it looks like there hasn't been a new release of Beardedspice since June 2017.
Meanwhile, Milgra, the ...
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
a solution that worked for me for Mojave was to remove the execution bit from iTunes:
sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
and optionally add the media player in question ...
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Pause button started working for Chrome / Youtube, messing with audio player controls
This is a new feature of Chrome73, called Hardware Media Key Handling in chrome.
Enter this URL in the address bar then you can simply disable it.
chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling
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Set up global shortcuts for media keys (next, prev, play/pause)
I had a similar problem, using a basic, non-apple, USB keyboard pressing F8 wouldn't pause my music whether or not I checked the "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option.
I ...
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Media Function Keys Randomly Disabled
Seems like we were able to find the problem through the comments. Chrome sometimes "hijacks" your media buttons for its own functions. A quick google search yielded the following result:
You can ...
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How to prevent app from auto starting
There are several ways that programs can automatically start in macOS:
First check "Login Items" which are found in System Preferences after clicking the "Users & Groups" icons....
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How to prevent app from auto starting
There are two places for LaunchAgents to be called from:
/Library/LaunchAgents - this launches a process at login for every user
~/Library/LaunchAgents - this launches a process at login for a ...
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
Is better going to User (Settings ->Users and Groups) and then click on "Startup items" and disable ituneshelper. By this way you don't need to kill the process every time you switch on the device.
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Override iTunes "media" keys (play, pause, etc) for Spotify?
I've created an easier implementation of Per's answer with BetterTouchTool.
Download BetterTouchTool (it has a 45 day free trial, afterwards its a one time purchase of $9).
Create a keyboard shortcut,...
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"Install Spotify" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software
This is a notarization issue with Spotify on Catalina. Although you can right-click to open, you should be extremely cautious with that! That bypasses the mechanisms macOS is using to try to protect ...
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spotify doesn't care about mission control settings
Spotify doesn't support multiple windows. The reason for this statement is absence of New Window in File Menu. So it switches to the desktop it is at.
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Ignore "prevent sleep" request from a specific app
To manually initiate a sleep on the mac and override 'Preventing Sleep' applications run
pmset sleepnow
in the terminal
Edit
I agree, the Apple spec is flawed, Apple need to fix this!!!, there should ...
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Can Camera+ 2 iPhone app record video while playing music?
I've got an answer for the first part of the question: Camera+ 2 doesn't have record video function. It's only to make photos.
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Spotify automatic startup mystery
A lot of functionality, like login items, extensions/kexts, LaunchAgents or other Helpers can be packed into the application bundle these days.
If you look closely at the content of the Spotify.app, ...
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How to open/use/enable Spotify Desktop Web Player on iOS?
The problem is that Safari on iOS does not support Encrypted Media Extension (a.k.a. DRM), so there is no way for Spotify to play the files without breaching license agreements.
Check:
https://...
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How to open/use/enable Spotify Desktop Web Player on iOS?
This appears to be an issue with the responsive design (possibly intentional) of the Spotify site.
I tested this on both iPadOS and iOS; v16.6 on both devices.
iPadOS loads the desktop site with no ...
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"Install Spotify" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software
I was facing the same issue while I was trying to install .Net Core 2.2 SDK.
dotnet-sdk-2.2.207-osx-x64 (1).pkg” can’t be opened because Apple
cannot check it for malicious software.
And as ...
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Set up global shortcuts for media keys (next, prev, play/pause)
Everything in @beninato's answer worked for me. The only thing I had trouble with was that when setting the keyboard shortcut for the services I created, it had to include the command key for the ...
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