<div dir="ltr">At the moment, iTunes can be paused by the preferences.  For the Spotify users, it would be great to be able to pause that (also/instead).<div><br></div><div>I wrote this applescript as a way around it, in case you can use the AppleScript - python bridge to achieve it:</div>

<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(79,143,0)"><span style="color:#000000"><b>on</b> </span>is_running<span style="color:#000000">(</span>Spotify<span style="color:#000000">)</span></p>


<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 83.2px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>tell</b> <span style="color:#0433ff"><i>application</i></span> "System Events" <b>to</b> (<span style="color:#812fdc">name</span> <b>of</b> <span style="color:#0433ff"><i>processes</i></span>) <b>contains</b> <span style="color:#4f8f00">Spotify</span></p>


<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(79,143,0)"><span style="color:#000000"><b>end</b> </span>is_running</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;min-height:15px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(79,143,0)"><span style="color:#000000"><b>set</b> </span>safRunning<span style="color:#000000"> <b>to</b> </span>is_running<span style="color:#000000">("Spotify")</span></p>


<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(79,143,0)"><span style="color:#000000"><b>if</b> </span>safRunning<span style="color:#000000"> <b>then</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 83.2px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>tell</b> <span style="color:#0433ff"><i>application</i></span> "Spotify"</p>


<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 124.8px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(4,51,255)"><span style="color:#000000"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span></span><b>pause</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 83.2px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>end</b> <b>tell</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 41.6px;font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana"><b>end</b> <b>if</b></p>
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