1

I'm using Groove, the Windows 10 music player. It's good, I don't want to download another. I use Spotify but for my local music, I use Groove.

I was wondering if:

  • It can be minimized to tray
  • I could control it using the keyboard, such as AutoHotKey associations or something, to play, pause, etc.
fixer1234
  • 28,064
Lynob
  • 5,550
  • 23
  • 66
  • 96

1 Answers1

1

It is quite likely you can implement both of those features in AutoHotkey.

For minimize-to-tray you could make a tray icon that effectively shows/hides the Groove window (which would make it look like Groove got minimized to the tray). See WinShow and WinHide commands.

For controlling via keyboard you could likely use ControlSend commands to directly send keystrokes to Groove to control playback, even if it isn't visible or active. There is also a WinAmp example in the AutoHotkey help files that utilized window messages if I recall correctly (see help for SendMessage--whether Groove uses that type of interface I have no idea)

Maybe I will look at it at it on a Win10 machine sometimes... haven't used it myself but I'm pretty sure you could get it to do something like that.

JJohnston2
  • 1,929