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Hi everyone,
So I've got a weird problem, and I haven't found anyone else with the same issue.
For some reason the play/pause and stop media keys on my keyboard (K55) aren't working. If I test it on keyboardchecker.com it says MediaPlayPause and MediaStop, so the keys itself do work. I've tried it with both Spotify and VLC, and it they not do anything. Other keys like previous track, next track and volume controls work fine. It's just the play/pause and stop keys that don't work. Nothing happens.
Anybody got any clue as to what's going wrong here?
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I was also facing the issue while streaming hulu. Play pause button was not working and the browser was crashing while streaming. By the help of this post I found that clearing the cache can help. After clearing chrome cache the issue is resolved for me now.
Similarly, mine seems to have been caused by 3cx (VoIP application). Oddly though, once I opened the app back up, the problem didn't return until I received another call.
Wonder if it's an issue with any non-Microsoft calling software? MS Teams doesn't seem to cause this trouble for me.
Just to clarify, when I say that I exited the browser, I mean that I did so by going to the menu top right and clicking exit. That way all running extensions also get terminated. But either way, as far as I can see I don't have any media related extensions installed.
I already have VLC set as the default music and video player in Windows settings. Still I tried changing them to a different program, relaunched explorer, and the keys still didn't work.
Plugging the keyboard into a different port (front i/o instead of motherboard) didn't change anything either. But I really don't think it's hardware related, because as I said, the keyboard tester is registering the media keys. They're just not functioning in Windows. I even tried the keyboard on my Win10 laptop, and the keys work fine there.
I also tried turning off 'Show desktop overlay when using media keys' like you said, but that didn't change anything either.
I'm really stumped :/
