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
    2023-01-27T10:00:44+00:00

    I had the same happen but with MS Teams. Closing it in taskmanager fixed the problem, have to wait until I get a call to see if it comes back.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Paulo GM 72,645 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-01-24T04:36:23+00:00

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

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  5. Paulo GM 72,645 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-01-24T03:14:44+00:00

    Hi Martijn,

    How about when using the browser, does it work when playing/pausing on a youtube video for example? Have you tried enabling the media keys there and check if it'll work on online videos or Spotify for web?

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