Because it's not the music player I choose to use. I would be ok with it, if I could change the default to e.g. VLC or Spotify.

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stringfood 5 hours ago | parent [-]

or turn it off entirely because guess what? Most people are accidently hitting this play/pause button or they hit it thinking youtube is going to respond and instead they get Apple's seriously shite music player. classic apple no respect for me and my choices.

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c-hendricks 4 hours ago | parent [-]

YouTube does respond to it though?

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stringfood 4 hours ago | parent [-]

sometimes you can have a youtube video that is paused, and you hit play/pause button thinking it will unpause it but for whatever reason that video seems to not be registering as being unpausable so OSX thinks there is nothing to unpause, so it opens itunes, it's one of the reasons apple was cited under geneva convention violations for unusual weaponry last year

	▲	Barbing 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mainly want that button for pausing a video to play music or vice versa. Don’t love the logic (which will it play, or pause?) but maybe it’s about as good as it could be without more complexity like first press pauses background playback, second press begins foreground playback. (Could probably script that now that I say it, an easy Hammerspoon or something.)