Fadeout iTunes when another sound application takes over

I like to leave my itunes playing music in the backround while i browse the internet (facebook, youtube, ect...) is there a way to make itunes automatically fadeout music when another application uses sound (like playing a video on youtube).

First off, I meant to title this "When switching spaces application window is not showing."
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem or any other weirdness with switching between spaces, the answer seems to be trashing the com.apple.dock.plist file and then restarting the dock. The preferences file can evidentially get corrupted and create some problems. Spaces does not have it's own plist file but stores it's data in the dock's plist file. Be warned that this will reset all of your dock preferences including which apps you have on the dock.
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