Take the 2-minute tour ×  In Snow Leopard the Play / Pause media
button (on the F8 key) opens up iTunes. How can I disable that?
Preferably keeping the old Leopard behaviour, so I can use it to
control other media applications (e.g. Spotify).  share|improve
this question Apple forum thread about the issue:
discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10075555 — no
solution though. (Even if the page strangely claims "This
question is answered") –  Jonik Aug 30 '09 at 12:57 Another
unclosed thread on this:
forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=757430 –  August Lilleaas
Aug 31 '09 at 9:34 This one is loaded with good solutions:
discussions.apple.com/… –  Darren Newton Sep 18 '09 at 1:01 This
is FIXED in Lion. –  August Lilleaas Jul 20 '11 at 19:00
@AugustLilleaas It is not fixed in Lion! –  Jonathan. Sep 25 '11
at 13:13  25 Answers 25  up vote 12 down vote accepted  a better
temporary fix is to start quicktime and just have it running(not
playing a movie) in the background. It uses less ram/cpu than
iTunes.  shar