Apr 04
You can change the volume in iTunes in its minimised window form by hovering the mighty mouse over it and using the scroll ball. This works regardless of whether iTunes is the active window or not.
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Tips and Tricks for Apple’s Leopard operating system
April 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
What a cool and useful tip - Thanks!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Oh, and it works with GarageBand too if you hover over the track!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Great trick!!! Thanks heaps
April 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
and it works with QuickTime!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Also works on my MBP with two-finger scrolling.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am
it works whit just every mouse i gues, it also works whit my ‘normal’ logitech mouse, but indeed, good trick
April 5th, 2008 at 5:19 am
ooo! awesome trick! thank you!
April 6th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
it didnt work for me
am i doing anything wrong?
April 8th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
also works on the ‘normal’, big itunes window
April 10th, 2008 at 1:53 am
no it does not work when the window is inactive.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Actually it doesnt work unless the itunes window is active.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
well gus, it works for me whether the mini player (or the main player) are not active!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Well its not doing it for me, and I have the latest mouse as well as the latest iTunes player. ….and why are you yelling, is that an exclamation pt. I see?
April 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
cjs1224: make sure you are trying it with the the ‘mini-player’ and not with the window actually minimized to the dock (that’s what I did at first!).
Gus: when you are trying it with the inactive window, do you have the mouse hovering over the volume controls or just the window in general? For me, it works with the mouse anywhere over the mini-player (active or not), but with the main player, the mouse has to be over the actual volume control and not just the window in general (again, active or not).
By the way, first time to this site, very cool. Thanks for the tips!
April 13th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Nice one