How to Enable Native iTunes 'Now Playing' Notifications

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Posted November 19, 2011 at 4:54pm by Shalom Levytam

These are instructions on how to enable native iTunes 'Now Playing' notifications.

Step One
Launch Terminal from your Applications:Utilities folder.

Step Two
Input the following commands:

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

Step Three
After your Dock has been restarted you will notice now playing notifications appear above the iTunes icon.

Removal
To remove notifications, input the following commands into the Terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool FALSE
defaults write com.apple.dock notification-always-show-image -bool FALSE
killall Dock

[via TNW, Mac OS X Hints]

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Guest - November 21, 2011 at 3:43am

Why would you want to enable this function? What's the purpose for it? Can someone explain what does it do? Thanks!

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6italia0 - January 27, 2013 at 12:02pm

makes it so when a song in itunes is playing, a small animation shows up with the song title

Coleman - November 20, 2011 at 12:49am

mine worked without the middle step, just did the first line and last line. got instructions from modmyi.

Coleman - November 20, 2011 at 12:36pm

take it back. the second step adds the iTunes logo. My mistake.

Coleman - November 21, 2011 at 4:19am

it shows the song name and artist every time the song changes for about 5 seconds.

BigRich - November 19, 2011 at 6:15pm

It should be noted that these commands only apple to OS 10.7 or newer.

Dbush - November 19, 2011 at 5:18pm

Also possible for Windows?