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berrberr / streamkeys

Global media player hotkeys for chrome
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Blocks default system media key commands #42

Closed djdmbrwsk closed 9 years ago

djdmbrwsk commented 9 years ago

First off, I've been waiting a while for an extension that works as flawlessly as this one! Thanks a ton for all your work :)

More often than not I'm listening to Spotify and this extension works perfectly. However, if I'm listening to music in a local music player app (ex. media player, winamp, itunes) and I have Chrome open my media key command never seem to make it to the app.

berrberr commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately when you set global keys in Chrome it takes full control over that key/combination. So if Streamkeys is set to use the media keys then (as long as you have Chrome open) those key presses will only be sent to Chrome :disappointed:

You have two options (neither of them great):

  1. Disable Streamkeys in Chrome (chrome://extensions in address bar) when you are using desktop music player apps. Disabling it will relinquish Chrome's control over the keys as long as it remains disabled.
  2. Change the hotkeys to something else (this is what I do). I am often in the same situation as yourself (having itunes + Chrome open) so I've changed the hotkeys on Streamkeys to ALT+SHIFT+2 for play, ALT+SHIFT+3 for next, ALT+SHIFT+E for previous. Took me a day or two to get used to it...see if you can find a combination that you like.

As it stands there is no real way for extensions to automatically work around this problem, it is up to the user :disappointed:

djdmbrwsk commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the insight! I'll try out the alternate hotkey work-around.