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
    2023-01-26T18:52:04+00:00

    AutoHotKey v2 script to work around the issue: remap Media_Play_Pause to (Windows key + Media_Play_Pause)

    Media_Play_Pause:: 



{ 



Send "{LWin down}" 



Send "{Media_Play_Pause}" 



Send "{LWin up}" 



}

    For remappings like this you can use a simpler way:

    Media_Play_Pause::^Media_Play_Pause

    This also uses CTRL (^) instead of WIN (#) to avoid the start menu opening.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-14T07:25:20+00:00

    AutoHotKey v2 script to work around the issue: remap Media_Play_Pause to (Windows key + Media_Play_Pause)

    Media_Play_Pause:: 

{ 

Send "{LWin down}" 

Send "{Media_Play_Pause}" 

Send "{LWin up}" 

}

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-10T21:02:39+00:00

    For me teams was also what was hijacking it so thanks for sharing cause if it wasn't for your reply i wouldn't have been able to fix my button

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-28T17:39:41+00:00

    Similar to the powertoys remapping, I'm using AutoHotkey to re-map the media key yo win+play/pause.

    Seems to work, just throwing out there another option.

    Media_Play_Pause::

    SendInput #{Media_Play_Pause}
    return

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-25T17:41:04+00:00

    This was exactly what I needed, thank you! Knowing the combination was needed, I was able to map it using PowerToys, so that the Play/Pause Media button is now remapped to "Win+Play/Pause Media". I just bought an external usb media control panel and it needed this to work.

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