Greetings! I have a very quick (and hopefully easy to understand) feature request for the Windows Plex client, and that is that instead of capturing the media keys so that no other app can use them, I think Plex should integrate it with the Windows API. So, for an example - with Spotify you can pr…

Integration with the Windows media key API

deactivated March 23, 2021, 3:03am 2

Hey @htbrown39, yep I think this is 100% the right path. I’m not sure what it entails either but will sort it out. Other Windows users are having similar experiences: Disable media keys on Windows

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Integration with the Windows media key API

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