How to control iTunes on OS X using Apple EarPods

After Apple revealed new standard headphones for your iPhone and iPad called EarPods, Internet community has begun to actively seek them super-sound and compare them with the top models of vacuum headphones by Sennheiser.

Of course, such comparisons EarPods can not stand, but they give quite acceptable sound, far superior in power and depth of the sound of the previous "headphones by default" from Apple. Much more valuable thing implicit in EarPods - a small remote control iOS player who is on one of the wires. With it, you answer daily calls and flipping through your favorite songs in the player.

Did you know that with the help EarPods iTunes can be controlled not only in iOS, but also in the desktop OS X?

Here's what you can do tricks by connecting your usual headphones with your MacBook or iMac.

• Pressing the center button starts iTunes
• The second central press button starts playback composition
• Another click the center button and you pause
• Double-clicking on the center button starts playback of the next track
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• Triple depression, on the other hand, scrolls back to running the previous song
• By pressing the "+" and "-" to adjust the volume, and not in iTunes, and at the system level

Note that the trick runs only with the original headphones EarPods and fires on the previous models of headphones. Control iTunes with the iPhone headphones tested on Macs released since 2010 and does not work with all older models.