Keep in mind that Intermission captures all your Mac’s non-system audio, so its buffer will also pick up, for example, audio from YouTube videos that you might play while listening to music however, Intermission ignores things like alert sounds, so you’ll still hear those in real time. Similarly, if you’re not a fan of the ads on your favorite music service, or you want the option to skip tracks more frequently than the music service allows, just start playback and then immediately pause it using Intermission-you can later start playback with up to three hours of buffer, letting you skip ads and tracks as much as you like. But it’s also great if, say, you want to hear an iTunes Radio track over…and over and over and over. Intermission’s most-obvious benefits are letting you temporarily pause music and letting you quickly rewind audio when you miss something. And while most have a pause button, I have to remember which app I’m currently using, switch to that app, and then pause or resume-I don’t have a universal Pause button. Some of these let me skip forward and back, but not all some have ads, while others don’t.
But I’ve got plenty of other ways to listen to music on my Mac that don’t necessarily provide such features: In addition to iTunes and other apps for playing local music tracks, I’ve got streaming-audio apps such as Pandora and Spotify (and, of course, iTunes Radio), and I’ve got myriad websites and online services providing music, podcasts, and online “radio” shows. Sure, iTunes has a pause button, and if I’m listening to tracks in my iTunes library, I can skim forward and back. These features have become such an ingrained part of my media-consuming experience that I often miss them when listening to music on my Mac.
Over the past decade or so, TiVo and similar DVRs have changed the way we watch TV-so much so that many of us take for granted that we can pause live TV, rewind to watch something again, and jump forward to skip commercials.
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