[robg adds: This works on full-size iTunes' windows, too -- just make sure your mouse pointer is over the volume slider itself; with the shrunken window, the mouse just needs to be somewhere on the iTunes window itself.]
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Subtle UI trick: With the pointer over a shrunken iTunes' window, scrolling your mouse's scroll wheel changes the volume up and down.
[robg adds: This works on full-size iTunes' windows, too -- just make sure your mouse pointer is over the volume slider itself; with the shrunken window, the mouse just needs to be somewhere on the iTunes window itself.]
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Scroll Wheel
Nice. Typical Apple touch.
Scroll Wheel
Works in the Windows version too!
Scroll Wheel
Which is an Apple program!
Scroll Wheel
It would be nice if it also worked while the iTunes window was in the background, but cool nonetheless.
Scroll Wheel
I agree. That was the first thing I thought of, only because the other controls work with the iTunes window in the background without bringing the window forward.
Scroll Wheel
That's a cool feature. Nice touch. It would be cool if they could make it do that when the window is minimized (not that I expect them to)
Scroll Wheel
Would be nice if you could do it whilst hovering mouse over the system volume menu bar thingy....
*Not* an Apple trick, though
Although I applaud Apple for including this functionality, it's not their invention. XMMS, a pretty standard tool under X11/Linux/etc. has done this for a very long time.
Scroll Wheel
Hmm I'm running 10.3.2 using a Logitech MX-700. The scroll wheel isn't working as described concerning the vol slider. Even while the cursor is over top of the vol slider in iTunes, the window slider for the source or library window will scroll instead. However, if I fire up sys prefs and head into the logitech control center (driver settings for the mouse), I can set the scroll wheel to adjust the system volume much like the vol keys on my apple kb. I suspect that the Logitech driver is interfering with this hint... Anyone else using this mouse with success using this hint?
Logitech Scrolling
Ok, its not the Logitech drivers thats interfering. The scroll wheel volume only works when iTunes has been shrunken down into the little control window instead of the full screen that shows the library and playlists. Im using a Logitech scroll mouse myself, so I can say first hand that its not the drivers. It works only cause the scroll wheel essentially sends the same command that pressing the arrow keys would. iTunes responds to the up and down arrow keys to adjust volume when its just the controller. Thats why it works, not cause of code specific to the scroll wheel. |
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