iTunes iPopup

February 11, 2009 9:34 PM

iTunes now pops a little box showing the currently playing song (pic here). How do I turn it off?

I have iTunes 8.0.2 on Mac Leopard. This has never happened on previous iTunes versions.

Whenever I start playing a song, or change songs, whether manually or automatically, the popup shows up on screen (if album artwork was present, it'll sometimes show that). Doesn't matter if iTunes is currently in focus or not. At first, I thought it was pretty nifty, since if you change songs while it's still there, it'll rotate like a little cube. But then I can't see anything behind it while it's there. It doesn't steal focus away from any open windows, just pops up over them.

The popup displays for 2-3 seconds before it goes away.

Google has failed me this time. Anyone has/had this feature? How do I turn it off? I've looked in Preferences to no avail.

posted by curagea to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Did you recently install growl or some other app enhancer? I'm pretty sure that iTunes isn't generating that box.
posted by crickets at 9:38 PM on February 11

that's not iTunes. did you install Quicksilver or Growl or something like that? the image you linked to looks like Quicksilver, but it could be a few things. both QS and Growl have deals (QS has an iTunes plugin and Growl has GrowlTunes) that pop up the current song when it changes in iTunes, but iTunes itself does not do that. there are other apps as well that do that for you as well; those two are the only two I can remember the names of off the top of my head.
posted by mrg at 9:39 PM on February 11

(I actually find it quite useful. Just go to your Growl settings [in system preferences] and change the display setting to Music Video. Much less obtrusive.)
posted by mhz at 10:39 PM on February 11

Yes, thank you, mrg! It was Quicksilver. I had "Display Track Notifications" checked in the iTunes section. Whew!
posted by curagea at 10:43 PM on February 11