#Make itunes mini player always on top full#
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Photo byВ Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Tweak your vehicle settingsДepending on your carвЂ™s make and model, it may be possible to turn off autoplaying in your vehicleвЂ™s Bluetooth settings. ThereвЂ™s no real obvious way to turn off the autoplay function on your smartphone, but there are a few things you can do to lessen the annoyance. So if itвЂ™s an audiobook version of a steamy romance novel, that can be kind of embarrassing.ДЄs automakers and Apple have progressed to make your car as smart as possible, itвЂ™s understandably annoying when non-smart things happen. Other times, whatever you happened to be listening to last on your smartphone is what blasts out of your vehicleвЂ™s speakers. Last year, The Verge staff wrote odes to вЂњthe songs we unwittingly start our drive with.вЂќ It was never the best song that would play first, but because Apple would default to whatever was first in iTunes, youвЂ™d end up with some pretty random songs like вЂњA-PlusвЂќ by Hieroglyphics, вЂњA/B MachinesвЂќ by Sleigh Bells, or вЂњAbout to DieвЂќ by the Dirty Projectors. It doesnвЂ™t matter if youвЂ™re connecting through Bluetooth or a USB port, it happens.

For some reason, iPhones will automatically play whatever song is listed first alphabetically in your iTunes. Thanks so much for any insight you might have.ItвЂ™s happened to everyone: you plug your smartphone into your car, and then cringe when that song - the same song every time - begins to play. Gosh, it took me weeks to master navigating iTunes and getting hi-def artwork, and though I like the latest versions of Apple apps, this new version is a little more inconvenient. They did streamline iTunes to make it lighter and less bulky, but they took a convenient feature away. DonвЂ™t know if it is something I can fix or whether it is a bug. I found by sizing the first picture, then yellow-buttoning or hiding that picture, then all others I bring up in the library are that sizeвЂ¦but it goes back to default when I close out of iTunes. I came up with a workaround and wrote to Apple. In 12.6, I set the size once and it was set for the thousands of songs in my libraryвЂ¦and didnвЂ™t change when I exited iTunes. But in the 12.7 version, when you now click the mini-icon at the top while a song is playing (with the Command key) the picture comes up as before, but you have to right-click each time to size it larger. But, last night I upgraded to iTunes 12.7вЂ¦simpler for me as I only use iTunes as a music player-no podcasts, iBooks, sharingвЂ¦strictly music to store my library and synch to my iPods. Sometimes I have to even go to a British site for high-def iTunes album artwork when I canвЂ™t get it from iTunesвЂ¦usually because the songs are in a foreign language. Since you seem to be a guy who knows a lot about album artwork, I wanted to ask you this, since to me album artwork is as important to me as my music. Kirk: Your column and info have been very helpful, especially to a very low-tech 70+ senior citizen (I donвЂ™t even have a smartphone).

#Make itunes mini player always on top full#

You can resize this window a bit, making it narrower or wider.ДЇor many users, the MiniPlayer can now be a full control center for iTunes.

You can now resize the MiniPlayer much more than previously, but one of the biggest changes is what happens if you click the blue Up Next button at the right of the window, or if you drag the window from the bottom:ДЄs you can see, you now have access to a full Up Next queue, your play history, and lyrics, in a clean display.ДЄnd if you liked that smaller window, just drag the bottom of the window as high as possible, and youвЂ™ll get this: The above screenshot was taken with my cursor hovering over the window, which displays the controls rather than the name of the track, artist, and album. ThereвЂ™s no longer a header at the top of the window. If you choose Window > MiniPlayer, hereвЂ™s what you see: You could resize the MiniPlayer, to what I called the Artwork Player:ДЄll this has changed. HereвЂ™s what it looked like in iTunes 12.5:ДЄt the top is the MiniPlayer when you were playing a track at the bottom when you hovered your cursor over the window. This little window lets you control what youвЂ™re listening to, and view some information about the currently playing track. You may be familiar with the MiniPlayer window in iTunes.