Maximise iTunes (The Little Green Button) 8
Tip
Hey
After playing around with iTunes for a bit, I suddenly realised that the little green button which you use to maximise and application doesn’t work as it would intend to. Instead it changes iTunes to the mini-player. You can normally maximise iTunes by pressing Alt and then clicking on the green button, however this is one extra button and I am not prepared to press that button in my day to day activities, I am busy enough as it is. So I found a quick Terminal preference command which allows you to change this function. In hindsight it took me longer to find the command than it would have to keep pressing Alt.
To change iTunes green button function from switching to mini player to maximising iTunes type the following into Terminal. Terminal is found under Applications > Utilities.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes zoom-to-window -bool YES
Restart iTunes if you don’t already have it closed. The function of the green button should have changed. You can now maximise iTunes by pressing the maximise button. If you want to switch the mini player, press Alt plus the green button. The roles have changed.
If you want to reverse the functions back to the original preferences type the following into Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes zoom-to-window -bool NO
Restart iTunes if needed.
A quick little tip, however one that I find very useful.
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8 Responses to “Maximise iTunes (The Little Green Button)”
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I’m using iTunes too.. I’ll try your trick. Thank you.. :P
Comment By Gojeg on January 4th, at 12:31 am
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this is a ridiculous tip.
Apple changed that behaviour in an earlier version and changed it back because most people asked to use the “green button” as before to show the mini-player.
you don’t seem to know what’s going on in the cruel world of Apple apps.
Cheers anyway.Comment By Laurent on January 4th, at 6:22 am
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enjoying the hell out of it, i am always in iTunes, with my iPhone, saving music and movies, burning discs to share, home sharing on my wife’s PC (blah), absolutely love it, so far the most useful tip i’ve gotten in a while, thanx!
Comment By kevinb on January 4th, at 1:58 pm
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Just use Right Zoom.
Works well apparently!Comment By Stefanos Hadjisoteriou on January 4th, at 6:26 pm
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Funny, I wonder if there was such a function for iTunes. And now I have the answer. Thanks!!!!!!
Comment By RG on January 10th, at 4:04 am
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Very useful, the mini player is just horrible… Thanks!
Comment By Mikan on January 11th, at 9:54 pm
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great tip – works really well
Comment By philrdg on January 13th, at 1:12 am
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Regardless of what Lowrent (oops, I meant Laurent) might think, the mini player is FAR more useless than this tip. What is the point of the mini player anyway? There are keyboard shortcuts for anything you can do with it!
Oh well, I’ll never have to look at it again when i forget that the green button doesn’t do what I expect it to do or i forget to hold alt/option :-)
Thanks for the the tip
Comment By p0laris on April 24th, at 3:10 am