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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Input and language

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-03T22:00:17+00:00

    Dude, you just saved me. Holy ****. Thanks!

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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
    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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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-17T22:23:21+00:00

    Yeah my problem was identical. Just restart the computer, it worked for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-04-17T22:22:30+00:00

    I just shut down and restarted and it worked fine after.

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