The play button on the touch bar does not work as good as non touchbar

[soundsystem00]

Whenever I had my non-touch bar model of macbook pro from the same generation, the PLAY/PAUSE button would play/pause whichever media was playing from an app. It would not count web players. That way, If I wanted to pause spotify so that I could watch a youtube video or something, I could just press the key. It was very convenient.

Well now with the touch bar, the play button tries to control multiple things, mostly things that will be on whatever browser that I am using. That is a cool concept but it is turning out to be kind of a step back in terms of convenience.

I bet there is some way out there to control this though and I was hoping that one of you knew a way.

 

[maflynn]

but it is turning out to be kind of a step back in terms of convenience.

I found this to be case in general with regard to the TouchBar. I much prefer the keys, but that's just me

I bet there is some way out there to control this though and I was hoping that one of you knew a way.

You can try the BetterTouchTool

 

[Jimmy James]

By solving problems that didn’t need to be solved it seems they introduced problems that need to be solved.

 

[ncrypt]

Had the same problem until I found:
http://milgra.com/mac-media-key-forwarder.html

I can see why Apple made this change, but it is very annoying if you’re used to the previous behaviour.

 

[CrazyForCashews]

By solving problems that didn’t need to be solved it seems they introduced problems that need to be solved.

This sentence perfectly summarizes Apple.

 

[leman]

It’s not the touchbar, it’s the modern macOS. And yes, sometimes it doesn’t work properly.

 

[ghanwani]

By solving problems that didn’t need to be solved it seems they introduced problems that need to be solved.

TB, plus the butterfly keyboard!

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I don't have this issue.

I just use this button to switch between open apps to control.

 

[soundsystem00]

The good news is that the new OSX will let me use my ipad as a screen and tablet finally. That is good at least because im a designer and astro pad is a rip.