Breakaway: Automatically pause your music when headphones are unplugged

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Breakaway: Automatically pause your music when headphones are unplugged

by Simon Kerbel Mar 18th 2008

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.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: breakaway, itunes, mac, music

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew said 6:29PM on 3-18-2008

Right. You're just a troll.

mg said 5:46PM on 3-18-2008

My Rockbox on the iPod has this feature ;)

Andrew said 6:28PM on 3-18-2008

iPods in general have this feature.

sidd said 7:07PM on 3-18-2008

zune has this too, ipods arent special

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.

Samuel said 7:41AM on 3-25-2008

This is what my iPod Shuffle does, its excellent

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