MacBook – iTunes media keys not working in Mac OS X El Capitan

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My media keys had stopped working in iTunes on my Macbook Pro. They were working fine in VLC. I tried checking for the usual suspects:

  • iTunes preferences
  • Google Chrome Play music extension

Neither of them was the case for me.

I created a new user account on my Mac and the media keys worked fine on that one. So I tried copying the com.apple.itunes files from the Library of that account into the main account. This didn't help neither. What should I do?

Best Answer

Finally, I ran the following 2 commands in my terminal:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist

Worked like a charm!

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