Media Keys, change behavior back to the way it was before High Sierra

[ra4oasis]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but as some of you know, in High Sierra, the media keys on a magic keyboard 2 don't work they way they used to. They used to ALWAYS control iTunes, and now it seems to control iTunes sometimes, but if you have say a video on your primary display, the media keys control it, instead of iTunes. Or at least I think that's how it works.

Anyway, does anyone know of a way to put the media keys back to the way they used to be? I just want them to always work with iTunes, and ignore other media playback, such as Safari or Chrome audio/video. I figure I may have to use third party software, which sucks, but I'm okay with it if I can restore the functionality. Ideas?

 

[BlazednSleepy]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but as some of you know, in High Sierra, the media keys on a magic keyboard 2 don't work they way they used to. They used to ALWAYS control iTunes, and now it seems to control iTunes sometimes, but if you have say a video on your primary display, the media keys control it, instead of iTunes. Or at least I think that's how it works.

Anyway, does anyone know of a way to put the media keys back to the way they used to be? I just want them to always work with iTunes, and ignore other media playback, such as Safari or Chrome audio/video. I figure I may have to use third party software, which sucks, but I'm okay with it if I can restore the functionality. Ideas?

Unfortunately there's no way of restoring the function that I know of. I also just recently made a thread complaining about the same problem.

I suggest writing feedback to Apple. I did. Like 5 times lol

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

 

[ra4oasis]

Unfortunately there's no way of restoring the function that I know of. I also just recently made a thread complaining about the same problem.

I suggest writing feedback to Apple. I did. Like 5 times lol

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

Someone wrote an app that fixes this! It works great. https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/15/how-to-fix-media-controls-high-sierra/amp/

 

[danmessing]

This was driving me crazy, so I wrote a little menu bar app to make the media keys only affect iTunes:
http://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/

 

[Mr. 123]

This was driving me crazy, so I wrote a little menu bar app to make the media keys only affect iTunes:
http://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/

How does this work? I saw that there was a workaround with an app that put a little dot in the menu bar and was running all the time. Does this work the same?

 

[danmessing]

How does this work? I saw that there was a workaround with an app that put a little dot in the menu bar and was running all the time. Does this work the same?

I'm not sure what the other app is, but probably! Reflex is a menu bar app that intercepts the media key presses and forwards them to iTunes or Spotify.

 

[Mr. 123]

I'm not sure what the other app is, but probably! Reflex is a menu bar app that intercepts the media key presses and forwards them to iTunes or Spotify.

I updated today and started using Reflex immediately! Apple's decision to change the media keys must be the stupidest macOS decision in a long time...

Thanks for your work!

 

[ambientdaw]

This was driving me crazy, so I wrote a little menu bar app to make the media keys only affect iTunes:
http://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/

Danmessing, is this an open source app? Can you comment on how Mojave is behaving in this regard? Thanks!