Unbind OSX Play Button

December 27, 2011. Posted by Travis in Mac OS X

unbind osx play buttonIf you are a fan of Spotify like all of us around the office, you know how pesky it can be if Spotify isn't open and you hit the /II button on your Mac keyboard, and iTunes pops up in your face, thus requiring a prompt quit. If you are a fan of VLC, this can also be frustrating when trying to play movies and you get a bouncing iTunes icon eager to interrupt your flick.

To fix this, NoMitsu released a great, fast and easy .dmg installer to unbind the key. It still operates as normally when your programs are open, it just won't try to open iTunes at an inopportune time. You can download the file here. You can uninstall fix just as easily by running the installer again.

Note that if you download any OS X updates, you will probably need to re-install this patch.