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
    2023-06-17T20:45:58+00:00

    Just throwing in my lot. Tried everything in this thread.

    Same for me - holding Windows and hitting play/pause causes Spotify to pause/play at least. But otherwise only the previous/next track media keys work - it's the same whether it's on my keyboard or my mouse assignments. Even with no other apps open (including in the background).

    Hilariously, when I was on Windows 10, I had the opposite problem - play/pause would work, but not skip. New PC now, on Windows 11, and it's just hilarious that it's the same problem, but inverted.

    Really hope a solution comes down the pipeline. I use media keys *constantly*.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-10T20:45:08+00:00

    Ok well I find this insane. But if you've gotten this far I assume you read about changing the chrome flag (cuz thats the only solution I could find).

    Eddited the flag, I closed, reopened chrome. Nothing.

    Restarted the computer. Nothing.

    Restarted HID service. Nothing.

    Restarted the keyboard... suddenly play pause worked properly.

    Good luck out there.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-09T21:02:37+00:00

    Estava com o mesmo problema, tenho um teclado e mouse da logitech g603 e g613... procurei em varios lugares e nada de resolver meu problema, até desinstalei e instalei novamente o GHUB que é o software de driver do teclado e mouse , mesmo assim nao adiantou.

    Reiniciei oo computador e ele tinha voltado a funcionar , porém depois de um tempo usando verifiquei que ele paro de funcionar denovo ... foi ai entao que eu vi que ele poderia estar sendo barrado por algum programar que foi iniciado depois , vi aqui mesmo no post que o pessoal estava com problema com skype e teams , porém nao tenho nenhum dos 2 instalado aqui , unica coisa que eu tenho que eu usei e tinha audio era o whatsapp desktop... finalizei ele pelo gerenciador de tarefas e pronto voltou a funcionar!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-07T16:52:24+00:00

    For me it was Stack browser doing this, same thing: play pause was not working, forward back was. I closed stack browser and then it worked !

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