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Bug #1147: iPhone' songs are played (instead of iTunes library) when Syngergy ask iTunes to play a song

Kind bug
Product Synergy
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter anonymous
Tags no tags

Description

When iTunes isn't started, if I type the "play" shortcut of Synergy, it launchs iTunes and starts to play a song in my iTunes library.

If iTunes is started and playing no music, if I type the "play" shortcut, iTunes plays a track from my library.

I noticed a strange behaviour when I connect my iPhone to the mac, if iTunes isn't playing a file and I type the "play" shortcut of Synergy, iTunes start to play a song from my iPhone, not on my Library.

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Interesting. I don't yet have an iPhone so I can't test this one myself. Can anyone confirm the behaviour?

    You could do an experiment by firing up the Script Editor (at /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor) and using that to control iTunes instead to see if the behaviour is the same when you do: 

    tell application "iTunes.app" to play

    Or:

    tell application "iTunes.app" to playpause
  2. anonymous

    Ok, the behaviour is the same when I use the Script Editor.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    Ok, so I think there are two avenues here.

    One is to submit a bug report or feature request to Apple to get them to change the behaviour of iTunes. The other is for me to implement an explicit workaround; something like:

    1. Check if iTunes is running
    2. If it is running, just do the "play" or "playpause" as normal
    3. On the other hand, if it is not running:
      1. Launch iTunes
      2. Wait for it to launch
      3. Select the "Library"
      4. Only then issue the "play" command

    So not sure if the workaround is worth the effort. What do other people think?

  4. BBT

    Probably you misunderstood me, the problem occurs even if iTunes is running, but not playing a song.

    When you plug the iPhone, a new category appears on the itunes left bar, like for an iPod, and the iPhone appears and become highlighted. So I guess problem should be the same with an iPod.

    Here is a screenshot when you can see the highlight on the iPhone, the same highlight is normaly present on "Librairie" when you are listing your library files. http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image1rc6.jpg

  5. Greg Hurrell

    Right, ok. Can you explain what you want the desired behaviour to be then? I'm really asking about two things here:

    1. What do you think the behaviour of iTunes itself should be when you plug in the iPhone (ie. do you think it should not select the iPhone as it currently does?); is you don't like the existing behaviour it's something you'll need to take up with Apple
    2. What do you think the behaviour of Synergy should be? ie. Do you expect that it should do something special and override iTunes' behaviour when an iPhone is inserted?
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