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Recently, I made the switch to Songbird, and it's all gone well except for one thing: global music hotkeys. I installed an addon (Apple Keyboard Media Key Support) that enabled me to use the iTunes hotkeys for Songbird, but they also open iTunes. How can I prevent iTunes from opening when I press the media keys?

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  • This is a duplicate of another question, which provides a detailed answer using Karabiner (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook).
    – raimue
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 22:58
  • @Raim I asked first...
    – tekknolagi
    Commented Mar 31, 2016 at 5:20

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Try MMFix (english translation here). This tiny little utility patches the remote control daemon, which controls the media keys (and thus freeing it from the grasp of iTunes).

Download link here

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  • is there a utility that reverses it?
    – tekknolagi
    Commented Jun 26, 2011 at 5:50
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    @tekknolagi running the application again will let you reverse it.
    – user78429
    Commented Jun 26, 2011 at 5:54
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Another option is to use KeyRemap4MacBook. It has an option to default the media keys back to F7, F8, and F9, which can then be mapped to your media player of choice.

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