Breakaway for Mac
Pause/resume iTunes with your headphones.
Free
In English
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Breakaway overview
Breakaway is a utility that will pause/resume iTunes for you whenever you unplug and/or plug in your headphones. You can now walk away from your computer for a moment without missing a beat of your favorite song, or disturbing anyone with your speakers coming on.
Optionally, you can enable mute button functionality, which makes your mute button act as a pause for iTunes. Need to take a call? Hit mute on your keyboard and talk all you need. As soon as you unmute, iTunes will resume once more.
Note: If you want to use Breakaway solely for mute button functionality, be sure to disable "Headphones mode"
Also, Breakaway now supports Growl notifications, so you can get the status of your jack without the trouble of using a menu item.
What’s new in version 2.0.1
Version 2.0.1:
- [FIX] Preferences accessible through icon double-click
Breakaway for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.0.1
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Jun 17 2010
Version: 1.8
i'd like to know how to use the scrips for this app, i.e. use scrip to run a hotkey (trigger mi insomniaX), since i don't know how to use this, and probably not the only one, it would be cool if there was an easier way of doing this from the app preferences
Jan 13 2010
Version: 1.75b
This app used to be able to force open itunes, a great feature. For some reason it doesn't do it anymore, but luckily I've found a previous version which does, so I'm going back to that one, and dumping this.
Apr 28 2008
Version: 1.6
There are a few problems with the localizations at the moment, but they are getting resolved as we speak. A small localization/UI release will be coming ASAP. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Mar 4 2008
Version: 1.5
I downloaded Breakaway 1.5, but none of my unarchive utilities could unzip it. I got error messages saying that it could not be unzipped to due to a problem with the compression or something.
Dec 13 2007
Version: 1.3
this is great. one thing i love about my ipod nano is that it pauses if the headphones get unplugged. thanks to this app, that little detail carries over to my macbook. something like this should've came with leopard.
