With the arrival of the new system of the bitten apple, the already extended OS X Yosemite, the system's own applications were also updated and among them the iTunes to its version 12. The nerve center of all multimedia content your computer as well as the link between the Mac and iOS devices also receives a face wash.
Of the news that it includes, in this article we are going to highlight two of them that you may not have discovered yet. These are two mini players that will allow us to make use of the basic playback options and thus not having to go up and down the iTunes window to be able to use another application.
Well yes, with the renewal of OS X Yosemite, our beloved by many and hated by other iTunes, this time includes two mini players that will allow us to control what is being played without having to open the iTunes window. They are so small that we can locate them in any corner of the screen.
As for its size, it is such that if we put it next to the Dock, it does not exceed its height in its compact version. In case we want extra tools, by pressing a button on the mini version we can go to the extended version. After we finish doing the action, we can press the button again and go back to the mini version.
Now, we have talked about their existence but so far we have not told you how to activate them. To do this you must follow the following steps:
- Open iTunes and play any song so you can see the tools it offers us.
- Now look at the upper central information window of iTunes which is where it tells you what is playing. You will see that on the left side appears the cover of the song that is playing. If you place the cursor on it, a new symbol appears which after pressing it converts the player to its compact version.
- Now, in the compact version of the player on the left side you have a kind of button with two triangles. If you click on them, it switches to the extended version and vice versa.
A very simple and comfortable way to have iTunes playback controls in a minimum space.