The media player on Windows (Linux?) has support for the media keys already but they are not working when the window is not focused/active/in background.
This way we can skip songs while gaming, coding or simply browsing the web.
(Haven’t tested it on Linux yet but I guess it would be great to have there, too!)
On linux it is the same. App needs to be focused to handle keyboard shortcuts.
I’ve written a little script (Windows only unfortunately) which uses AutoIT to set Hotkeys and send the commands to the Plex Media Player Window.
You can find it here: github.com/codewing/Media-Player-Controller
A media app that doesn’t support media keys. I think something is broken. I would love to see now that the chrome app (which did have media key support) is being turned off.
There are a couple threads on this issue. I’m going to post in each to direct them to this thread, as it succinctly describes the problem, and proposes a workaround. However, we should still all Like this topic to “vote” for it as a feature request.
I would love to see this feature.
I would really like to see this feature.
@Spurll plexamp has media support, but you have to start plexamp before you start chrome, otherwise chrome steals meadia keys
I hadn’t actually heard about Plexamp—I’d been trying the Plex desktop and web apps for music, but this looks awesome. Thanks!
I’m on a Mac and while the play/pause media key works when Plex is in an inactive web browser window, the next/skip track key does not. It would be great if the next/skip key also worked.
I’m running macOS 10.14 (Mojave) and Safari 12.0.3.
