Spotify Touchbar
You can use the scrubbing-bar by clicking this icon on your touchbar. Battery indicator for mac. It works all the time, even if Spotify is open in the background. If you don't see the icon, you can check your control strip settings in the regular settings-menu of your Macbook. View solution in original post. Customize the Touch Bar on Mac. If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can change settings that control which buttons are shown in it, including the Control Strip.For some apps, you can customize the Touch Bar so that it contains buttons for your favorite tasks in that app. Spotify is not a native app of Apple ecosystem that is why it creates compatibility issues with Touch bar while using it with other apps. The native apps of Apple-like Apple Music, Quick Time Player, Apple TV, Safari, Garageband, Final Cut Pro etc. Works absolutely fine on the control strip of Macbook with other apps as well.
I've recently upgraded my laptop (after the 6 years my previous MacBookPro latest) and I've now got one of these touchbar things. It's cute, but I know that my laptop will be closed for 90% of the time and attach to an external monitor and keyboard.
That said, it absolutely does my head in that the control strip's 'play/pause' button will only control iTunes/Music. So I fixed that.
Karabiner Elements to the rescue
I've been using Karabiner Elements for a while now and it's a superb bit of software. It gives you complete control over the keyboard and sits in between and gives you the ability to completely change what the operating system actually sees.
So it stands to reason that I could capture the play/pause key press and completely take it over and send it to Spotify instead. It's not quite that simple, but it's no too far off.
Step one is to download and install Karabiner Elements. Once you've got that running, it needs to see the touch bar - which apparently announces itself as an entirely separate keyboard. So check this box:
Now Karabiner can see your keyboard - and a quick way to test this is to head to 'Simple Modifications' and add 'play_or_pause' and map it to (something like) 'mute'. Now test the play control strip button - if it mutes, then it's working and the next step is to create a 'complex modification' to control Spotify (you should remove the simple modification now).
Controlling Spotify
From Karabiner Elements' preferences, on the Misc tab, click on the button the reads 'Open config folder'. This is where we'll add the following in new JSON file. Under the directory complex_modifications (make it if it doesn't exist), add this file as touchbar.json (or as you please):
This says: when the button pressed is play_or_pause then run an applescript and prevent the keyup. Tuxera ntfs for mac os sierra бесплатно. You can determine the key value from the Karabiner ElementsViewer that's also installed.
The Apple Script
The last bit of the puzzle, you need to store this file in the same directory as the touchbar.json file (or change the location in the shell_command value).
Spotify Touch Bar Settings
Spotify Touch Bar Download
And that…should be it. I now have control over my own machine, which is frankly how it should always be.
Touch Bar Review
Honourable mention to Better Touch Tool which looks like it might do the job, but I'm already familiar with Karabiner and Karabiner definitely does the job!