Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware
Breakaway: Automatically pause your music when headphones are unplugged
by Simon Kerbel Mar 18th 2008 at 3:00PM
Breakaway is the kind of tool that begs the question, "why didn't anyone think of this before?"Simply stated, Breakaway will automatically pause your iTunes music anytime your headphones are unplugged.
We can see this as useful in two ways:
One, you won't have to suffer any more embarrassment when your headphones come unplugged and everyone becomes privy to the Rocky 3 soundtrack (we don't know about you, but "Eye of the Tiger" really gets our creative juices flowing).
Two, well, hmm...
Okay, so Breakaway is a one-trick pony. But it's a handy trick.
Breakaway is a free download, and requires Mac OS X.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mg said 5:46PM on 3-18-2008
My Rockbox on the iPod has this feature ;)
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Andrew said 6:28PM on 3-18-2008
iPods in general have this feature.
Mark Dean said 4:08PM on 3-18-2008
odd how apple put this feature in the iPhone and iPod Touch an nothing else. seems simple really.
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Ankher said 12:09AM on 3-19-2008
Actually, no, it's in the new iPod nano at least, too. Gaah, happens to me way too much.
And, if it's in the new nano, I would guess it would be in the classic.
Lane said 8:32PM on 3-20-2008
Actually, it is even in my 4th gen iPod Photo.
kojo87 said 4:00PM on 3-18-2008
is there a Windows alternative for this? the Realtek audio drivers can tell when you unplug/plug in an audio jack so it doest seem like it would be that hard to add a pause function.
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Jaymez said 4:34PM on 3-18-2008
Once piece of software I do not want. Wait. I'm not an elitest who feels the need to impress everyone by running a Mac or that horrible abortion of a program known as iTunes.
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Andrew said 6:29PM on 3-18-2008
Right. You're just a troll.
sidd said 7:07PM on 3-18-2008
zune has this too, ipods arent special
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Andrew said 8:18PM on 3-18-2008
They're also about three years late.
kojo87 said 12:02AM on 3-19-2008
now who's the troll Andrew?
Eric H said 8:50AM on 3-19-2008
Ha Ha ZING!
REMY said 12:59AM on 3-19-2008
The Zune does this? I do love that feature.
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Samuel said 7:41AM on 3-25-2008
This is what my iPod Shuffle does, its excellent
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