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Prevent iTunes from launching when using pause/plain/next/prev keysThis works in OS X 10.8.4+
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no-itunes.sh
sudo cp /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd.orig
# make sure replace with equal number of spaces(we're patching executable binary)
sudo perl -pi -e 's#tell application id "com.apple.iTunes" to launch# #g' /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd
# sign new binary
sudo codesign -f -s - /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd
# restart
killall -9 rcd
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