keyboard mediakeys while plex is not in focus

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Hi,

at the moment my keyboards media-keys (play, pause, skip track) are only working while the Plex Media Player is on focus. Is it possible to enable them systemwide, so they are working even without focus? That would be awesome.

Thanks.

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Thats what I also want to know. Is it possible without making a feature request?

Danny

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Yeah, we should probably finally get to this. It was always sort of on our TODO list, and I filed it internally just now to be sure it doesn’t get lost.

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This. A thousand times this! This is pretty much THE reason I still use the UWP for primary playback. Give me proper media key support (and windows media hooks too- so I can see what’s playing in the little playback toast that appears on skip / volume change) and I’ll be sold completely.

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+1 for global media keys

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any news on this topic?

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@DannyDan said:
any news on this topic?

Check out http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/247641/media-keys-not-working#latest. It’s not implemented but I did manage a workaround using AHK which may help.

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Hi TheMooDude,

just saw your post from august :o and tried your workaround. nice one. thanks alot!
I dont get it why the plex team hasnt implemented this feature until now. :neutral:

Danny

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Add one to the voices for Media Keys working!!!