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How To: Enable Hidden “Now Playing” iTunes Notifications On Your Mac

November 20, 2011 by Jaden Easton-Ellett 9 Comments

The Next Web is reporting a very cool new little hack for Mac computers running OS X Lion (10.7 and above). It appears that within the Mac OS X Lion operating system lays some hidden functionality that was not revealed to the public. This hidden functionality is the ability to enable native iTunes “Now Playing” notifications that will appear in the dock of your Mac. Currently it is not known why Apple has not yet publicized this feature, but some predict that Apple plans on implementing a new notification system in OS X Lion which will be released shortly in an upcoming update.

I know a lot of you probably use Growl to enable a similar functionality, but if you are looking for native functionality for “Now Playing” notifications then this little hack will be your best bet! In this How To guide you will learn how to enable hidden iTunes notifications within the Mac OS X Lion operating system.

Enable Hidden iTunes Notifications

Step 1) – The first thing you are going to need to do is open up Terminal on your Mac computer. Additionally, ensure that iTunes is not running!

Once Terminal is open and you have double checked that iTunes has been closed you will need to enter the following command into terminal and then press Enter.

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE;killall Dock

Step 2) – After the above command has been entered you can open iTunes and start playing a track. You should now notice a new pop-up window appears with the name of the song that is currently playing.

Although this works you may notice, however, that the iTunes icon is not present in the popup. If you would like to add the iTunes icon to the pop-up window, simply enter the following command into the Terminal window (make sure you close iTunes before entering the Terminal command):

defaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool TRUE;killall Dock

When you play a song through iTunes now you will notice the added iTunes icon.

Optional Deletion: If you do not like this functionality, and would simply like to remove it. Open up your Terminal window, close iTunes and enter the following commands:

defaults delete com.apple.dock itunes-notifications
defaults delete com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image;killall Dock

Let us know if you enabled these hidden “Now Playing” notifications on your Mac computer by following this how to guide in the comments section below. For more how to’s from iJailbreak.com, visit the how to section by clicking here.

Comments

  1. Scouseruk1210 says

    November 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    worked :) thanks for the guide.

  2. Avenged says

    November 23, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Awesome. Very handy little feature, thanks!

  3. Fangler says

    November 27, 2011 at 6:48 am

    Great – a handy improvement. Thank you.

  4. Josh Kleinig says

    December 15, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Saved me paying $1.99 for an app that used to be free!

  5. Anonymous says

    July 8, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    Amazing! Thank you!

    Is it possible for it to show the album art instead of the iTunes logo?

  6. Anon says

    August 10, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    Hey, can you update this so that it’ll work in Mountain Lion? :-)

  7. oscar says

    December 10, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    this doesn’t works in iTunes 11 on Mac OS X Lion =( my dock restarts each time i change a song

  8. Oscar says

    December 10, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    what app is that??

  9. pissed says

    February 5, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    this doesnt work i tried it like 5 times and all it does is restart my finder when it goes to a different song

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