Nice. Typical Apple touch.

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Works in the Windows version too!

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Which is an Apple program!

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Henk Brendel

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It would be nice if it also worked while the iTunes window was in the background, but cool nonetheless.

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I agree. That was the first thing I thought of, only because the other controls work with the iTunes window in the background without bringing the window forward.

Later, Frank

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That's a cool feature. Nice touch. It would be cool if they could make it do that when the window is minimized (not that I expect them to)

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Would be nice if you could do it whilst hovering mouse over the system volume menu bar thingy....

That's the thing about Apple "nice touches" - they never quite go far enough :)

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Although I applaud Apple for including this functionality, it's not their invention. XMMS, a pretty standard tool under X11/Linux/etc. has done this for a very long time.

What's even better about how it works with the way a lot of us X11 users have our window manager configured to have the focus follow the mouse is that you don't have to bring the app to the front layer to change the volume. You just hover over the app and scroll. Clicking works this way for the mini-iTunes window now, but the scrolling doesn't (yet).

I'd really like to see the Terminal preference for focus follows mouse migrate to the OS X system as a whole to enable this kind of functionality in all apps. It certainly should not be the default because it is disconcerting for a lot of new users (or just generally anyone new to the functionality). But for those that want to use it, I find it to be a huge time/space saver. Being able to even just scroll a window that's not on the top layer is really handy if your attention is primarily on a foreground window.

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Hmm I'm running 10.3.2 using a Logitech MX-700. The scroll wheel isn't working as described concerning the vol slider. Even while the cursor is over top of the vol slider in iTunes, the window slider for the source or library window will scroll instead. However, if I fire up sys prefs and head into the logitech control center (driver settings for the mouse), I can set the scroll wheel to adjust the system volume much like the vol keys on my apple kb. I suspect that the Logitech driver is interfering with this hint... Anyone else using this mouse with success using this hint?

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Ok, its not the Logitech drivers thats interfering. The scroll wheel volume only works when iTunes has been shrunken down into the little control window instead of the full screen that shows the library and playlists. Im using a Logitech scroll mouse myself, so I can say first hand that its not the drivers. It works only cause the scroll wheel essentially sends the same command that pressing the arrow keys would. iTunes responds to the up and down arrow keys to adjust volume when its just the controller. Thats why it works, not cause of code specific to the scroll wheel.

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