![]() Other than stress testing, I don’t see why anyone would want to switch into and out of iTunes that quickly. Although I’d like to fix this, I don’t feel like putting in a lot of time on something that won’t be a benefit under normal use. ITunes apparently doesn’t get its menus set up fast enough and isn’t ready to execute the command when it’s called. If you switch quickly into and out of iTunes (or vice versa), you can generate an error: Mostly.ĭan found a problem almost immediately. I have both of these macros saved in a Keyboard Maestro Group that’s available in all applications, and they work fine. I think this works because iTunes isn’t being activated during the execution of the script. What I found worked was good old-fashioned UI scripting in AppleScript, the kind of thing I used to have to do before buying Keyboard Maestro:ģ: click menu item "Switch to MiniPlayer" of menu "Window" of menu bar 1 You’d think the thing to do would be to just change the menu item to Switch to MiniPlayer, but all that does is set up an infinite loop between the two macros, probably because Keyboard Maestro activates iTunes to execute the menu command. The trickier macro is the one going the other direction. Keyboard Maestro has a way to trigger actions upon an application being activated and deactivated, and it’s pretty easy to come up with a macro that switches to the regular window upon activation. What Dan wants-and what I now realize I want-is for iTunes to make this switch automatically: going to the regular view when iTunes is put in the foreground and to the MiniPlayer view when it’s put in the background. But this is a manual operation that you have to do when iTunes is active. You can switch between the regular window and the MiniPlayer using the Switch to/from MiniPlayer command in iTunes’s Window menu, or use the ⇧⌘M keyboard shorcut. I like having the MiniPlayer down in the lower right corner of my screen, where I seldom have other windows to cover it. It will be on 14 Chevrolet models in the 2016 model. Which can be stretched vertically to show the album cover art, but I typically don’t do that. Chevrolet becomes the first automaker to announce Apple CarPlay (Opens in a new window) and Android Auto (Opens in a new window) simultaneously. To save space while still displaying the current track, especially when iTunes is in the background, there’s also a MiniPlayer window, Under normal circumstances, iTunes displays its regular window. And even though it’s not foolproof-as Dan discovered in his testing-it’s good enough for me.įirst, let’s define what we want. The solution I found wasn’t that hard, but it did take some messing around.
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