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How to make Songbird capture multimedia keys
How do I let Songbird capture multimedia keys (like Play/Pause) and prevent WMP from starting instead? I have checked the "Global Hotkeys" option, but whenever I press the Play/Pause button on my keyboard, Windows Media Player launches, even if Songbird is running and its window is active.
I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, and have disabled access to both WMP and Windows Media Center in the "Set Program Access and Computer Defaults" dialogue, to no avail. I realize that this may not be a Songbird issue per se, but any help would be greatly appreciated :)
I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, and have disabled access to both WMP and Windows Media Center in the "Set Program Access and Computer Defaults" dialogue, to no avail. I realize that this may not be a Songbird issue per se, but any help would be greatly appreciated :)
I’m slightly frustrated
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Inappropriate?Songbird Hotkeys (Tools->Options->Hotkeys) are set to use Global Hotkeys on Windows. Global Hotkeys can't be set as a single key. You need to use modifiers (Shift/Ctrl/Win/Alt) with the key you want to use. So, using multimedia keyboards was always a problem.
To find a list of shortcuts that already implemented in the latest builds, go to: Help->Keyboard Shortcuts
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Inappropriate?Okay, thanks!
I just figured since the default value of the global hotkey "Playback: Play/Pause" was "PLAYPAUSE" (the multimedia-key), that it would work the way I imagined.
I tried using the Win key to bind together with the multimedia-key, but that doesn't work either. (Windows Media Player just pops up in the background.)
Instead, I've made a simple key-combo (Win+<) to play/pause Songbird now, and it works perfectly well.
Thanks again for the info :)
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?I managed to make a perfect workaround for this problem!
Whether this will work for other people, is dependent on what type of keyboard and keyboard software you are using. I have a Microsoft keyboard with multimedia keys, and use Microsoft Intellitype Pro as the configuration software.
After having set the Songbird Global Hotkey for the 'Playback: Play/pause' function to "Win + <", I went into Intellitype Pro and configured the multimedia-key "Play/Pause" to run a macro. The macro is simply the keypress "Win + <".
Works like a charm :)
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?It would be good if this were configurable somehow. At the moment, iTunes captures all the iType multimedia key presses, which is a bit annoying.
Is proper support for media keys planned? -
Inappropriate?if you have installed Microsoft keyboard software uninstall it. Or kill process iType.exe then every Microsoft keyboard can control Songbird even on background.
have a "songbird" day
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