Play/Pause and stop media keys not working

Anonymous
2022-01-24T02:02:23+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-16T09:48:53+00:00

    I had the same issue: Play/Pause not working while Next/Prev track work.

    Tried everything and in the end it was Skype. Killing all Skype processes worked for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-04T13:12:25+00:00

    Hmm, the fact that it works while holding the windows button makes it even weirder. And yes it does also work that way for me!

    I guess I'll just blame Colton and follow that thread too :P

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-04T12:46:47+00:00

    Unfortunately, I'm out of ideas and I'm very sorry Martijn. Maybe somebody in the community has better suggestions for you.

    I have been experiencing the same issue and found this other thread: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1405036-keyboard-playpause-key-only-works-when-win-key-also-pressed/

    This happens to me exactly: if I press the play/payse button together with the Windows Key, it works.

    Unfortunately, the thread doesn't yet have any solutions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-02T19:00:36+00:00

    Just wanted to reply and say I have been having the same issues for a few weeks now. My play pause media key stopped working, but volume controls and forward/back song buttons all work. Could it be a windows update that caused this issue?. According to a different Thread i was reading Microsoft answers pause not working It could be an issue with discord if you have discord installed. Playing some media with discord is breaking the play pause button. You need to restart discord to fix it

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T08:51:25+00:00

    Ok so this issue has been there since the update on 14th of Jan as on my PC Atleast and to be sure enough i ve tried to my extreme as i could and found out that the issue was with the OS itself to some extent. Windows Media Player is the only app that responds alone to the play/pause/next/prev and none other app would even detect it(not even when i increase my vol through buttons). Also none of the keys work for me (Play/Pause/Stop/Next/Prev) [Windows Media player is an exception though] Could anyone just see if any other thing left or so?

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