Listen to music while downloading iTunes Music Store videos

Jun 09, '03 09:56:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Hopefully this isn't too obvious, but I didn't notice this until just now, and it's not posted here already...

As you've no doubt noticed, trying to download and watch a video on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) stops whatever other music you're currently playing. And given how long it takes to download the videos, especially the large ones, it gets annoying to have the music stop for the duration of the download and viewing.

Turns out that if you double-click a playlist to open it in a separate window and play the songs from there, they will play while the video is downloading. But that's not all. If you open the iTMS and start downloading the video before you open a playlist, don't worry. Just double-click the playlist to open it in a separate window, and even if the main window switches to that playlist (for example, you might click on the name instead of the icon and get the rename rectangle), once you actually get it open in a new window, the main window switches back to the downloading video.

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