Apple EarPods button doesn't pause/resume music about radiant-player-mac HOT 12 CLOSED

Thanks for looking into it. Unfortunately I don't have access to EarPods and I haven't been able to find relevant information on how it works. Let me know if you find any details.

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It looks like the headphone button presses are low level IOHIDDevice events. I think you have to look for devices that are buttons and then register for value change notifications. I'm relatively new to Apple's I/O kit, but I'll try to throw something together this week that can do this.

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Same thing happens with bluetooth headphones. The media keys control iTunes rather than Google Music

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Unfortunately I don't have bluetooth headphones with media controls, or Apple EarPods, so I can't develop this myself. I'm keeping this issue open in case anybody who has these and can develop a solution can contribute a pull request.

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The same happens when trying to use an Apple remote. The controls open iTunes instead of controlling Google Music. I would assume this could probably be corrected in the same way as the Apple EarPods or Bluetooth headphones.

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Since Snow Leopard pressing the EarPod button starts up iTunes instead of allowing one to control an already running media app. A Remote Control Daemon checks for that and opens up iTunes. There is no easy or proper way to do this, that is, other than modifying the rcd binary. [https://github.com/thebitguru/play-button-itunes-patch] This is also the reason no other app such as VLC, Spotify etc have this functionality.
I have also looked into the DDHIDLib which would be required to implement something like this after modifying the rcd binary but for me it only detected volume keys but not button presses.
So, I guess, its a won't fix unless someone takes the hack route.

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After digging a bit, I did see that the G-ear app accomplishes this by using a preference pane called Magic Keys that routes the button presses to the app. So it looks like you are correct, it may not be possible.

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Repo for Magic Keys: https://github.com/zsoltt/MagicKeys, maybe that helps.

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@se-bastiaan I tried Magic Keys, it lets me open Radiant if closed from remote on headphones but not pause/play.

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There is an app to fix bluetooth play/pause/next/prev issues for Spotify: https://github.com/jguice/mac-bt-headset-fix

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For anyone interested, whilst not a fix this can be implemented (at least with wired headphone buttons) using controllermate as described here:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/52353/headphone-play-pause-button-controls-itunes-only

Create a new controllermate profile thing, press your button of choice and drag the controller onto the page.

Change the applescripts to reference Radiant Player rather than spotify, and also modify the "previous track" to "back track" (that stumped me for an hour or so before reading the cocoa definition file thingie)

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@afunix This works great for my needs! Thanks!

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