The tricks we used before were far less than ideal, requiring you to start up QuickTime in the background, or do some serious hacking to system files within iTunes. Lifehacker ran an article about this very problem a while back for Snow Leopard.
I find this problem happens for me inconsistently, so I use this fairly destructive approach when it happens. It'd be a lot nicer if you could just specify that Spotify is the default program when these keys are triggered, as oppose to iTunes. But every once and a while iTunes will pop up when you hit them. Is it possible to set Spotify as the default program when the 'media' keys play, pause, previous, next, etc are pressed on the Mac keyboard? For the most part when Spotify is open, the 'media' keys work fine. Ask Different is a question and answer site for power users of Apple hardware and software.
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