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As a friend of mine pointed out earlier tonight, Winamp is really a great program. I agree.

The only thing stopping me from using it on a regular basis is that Windows Media Player supports use of the playback buttons on the keyboard, while Winamp does not....or does it?

Question: How to set up the playback buttons on the keyboard to work in Winamp instead of WMP?

My computer is running Windows 7 Starter (lame, I know;)

Not a duplicate -- that question was asking about making the dedicated "open a media player" button to open Winamp instead of WMP....I want the play/pause button to play/pause Winamp after it's already open.

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Shokhet
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Yes, Winamp does support global media hotkeys automatically, as long as another program does not usurp those hotkeys. This can happen if you open another program that hooks to those hotkeys after Winamp is opened.

This is supported by a plugin that should be enabled by default, the Nullsoft Global Hotkeys plugin. Additional hotkeys can be enabled. Interestingly, my Winamp instance will accept media hotkeys even though global hotkeys are disabled in the preferences dialog.

The default media hotkeys are Stop, Play/Pause, Previous track in playlist, Next track in playlist

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I was able to fix this issue specifically for myself by disabling media key usage in chrome, as I had YouTube open and it was trying to control YT first.

If this happens to you, open a new tab in chrome, put chrome://flags/ search for Hardware Media Key Handling and set it to Disabled. Relaunch Browser.

Corey
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In Windows 10 I just had to enable them in the Preferences -> Global HotKeys: preferences screen

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