Automatically pausing iTunes for other audio

I am trying to use iTunes to play background music all day at office computer.
Certain programs, like Skype, have an option to pause iTunes for a call...very helpful.
Is there any way to have iTunes automatically pause when something else needs the audio? Such as playing a web video? That would be much nicer than manually stopping and starting iTunes.
THanks
bob

Unfortunately for you, the nature of OS X means that it is "multi-threaded", i.e. applications run simultaneously and independently of each other, and this includes their audio outputs of course. You would have to stop iTunes manually to listen to something in your browser, but there are two utilities that might make your life easier.
One is a floating iTunes controller available from http://www.soft32.com/download_218631.html - I only found this by browsing for it just, I have no idea how good it is.
Then there is Detour (no longer supported) which provides each app with its own independent audio channel with separate volume adjustment - I use this a lot ever since I discovered with horror and amazement that Safari does not have a separate volume control (utterly essential in this day and age, where every MySpace page has its own rocky horror soundtrack interrupting your read of the web page and cross-contaminating your great taste coming via iTunes with someone's lamentable heavy metal haha). It is available from http://rogueamoeba.com/detour/
Hope this helps

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