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Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:13 pm
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Just thought I'd put out an observation of some strange behavior with this plugin that might help others still using it:
Catalina iTunes (so really Apple Music) running on a separate box from Indigo, as my Indigo machine is older and not able to run Catalina. I had begun noticing some flakiness with iTunes on 10.13, so moved it.
Every now and then, the plugin loses ability to monitor and communicate with the remote iTunes. Various ways of fiddling in the past have worked:
* Quitting and restarting Music
* Restarting the host Catalina Mac
* Restarting Indigo or the iTunes plugin
And after any of these, then re-authorizing the plugin's remote control in Music.
Recently, however, none of these steps worked any more, After all of them, I still got "failed attempt to pair."
Just now, I did something I hadn't tried before: **disabling the iTunes Plugin** in Indigo for a moment, then reenabling.
Instantly, a pairing attempt worked, and all plugin functionality was restored.
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