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When I have MM open (full view, not micro or mini player), my play, stop, forward and back buttons work fine. As soon as I give focus to another window, they keys do not work.

I've tried verifying that the global hotkeys were assigned properly, but from what I can tell, pressing my media keys only insert a space at the end of what key it's looking for.

IE: "Media Next" becomes "Media Next ".

I have a Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard, and the latest software/driver installed.

Try to use latest Beta of 3.1, also in case you apply new hotkey with added " " do then Keys working correctly?

Peke wrote:Try to use latest Beta of 3.1, also in case you apply new hotkey with added " " do then Keys working correctly?

I just upgraded to the beta posted yesterday, and have tested it the same way as before.

With and without the white-space at the end of the definition, the keys work, but only when the full player is focused. Once it loses focus, my busy cursor pops up for a few seconds, MM steals focus very briefly (perhaps half a second), the cursor returns to default, and whatever had focus regains it. Seems like it wants to work, it's just not doing it.

Switching to mini/micro player, with either of those players focused/unfocused the media keys do not work. Well, I'm not entirely sure if you can give focus to the micro player, but I tried by changing the volume, then hitting the pause button.

Edit: errr. hitting the play/pause media key button thing. hehe. >_<

It looks like the hotkey just is not Global.
Could you check that you have Global checkbox ticked (checked) in Options | Hotkeys ?

Ludek wrote:It looks like the hotkey just is not Global.
Could you check that you have Global checkbox ticked (checked) in Options | Hotkeys ?

Aha. Of course it's global.

Could you try something, please?

Download build 1215 and add
PreferLLKeysHook = 1
to the [options] section of MediaMonkey.ini file

If you don't know where to find MediaMonkey.ini file, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ticleid=17

Then Low Level Keyboeard hook is preffered.
Could you try whether it solves your issue.

Thank you.

Ludek wrote:Could you try something, please?

Download build 1215 and add
PreferLLKeysHook = 1
to the [options] section of MediaMonkey.ini file

If you don't know where to find MediaMonkey.ini file, see: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ticleid=17

Then Low Level Keyboeard hook is preffered.
Could you try whether it solves your issue.

Thank you.

Absolutely. I'll report back with results.

Same results, but I'm going to try a clean installation before saying that definitively. Maybe something has been screwed up along the beta installs.

My Hotkeys became inconsistent, too. But having added your proposed line to the INI file it seems to work fine again.

It's the same problem either way for me. I forgot about this thread. >_<

I've since upgraded to Vista and processed a clean install, same effect. I just tried the ini change and every time I hit the play/pause button it pops up a UAC confirmation, but nothing happens.

Boni2k wrote:My Hotkeys became inconsistent, too. But having added your proposed line to the INI file it seems to work fine again.

Could you describe the inconsistency?

I also had an inconsistency problem, here are the symptoms: when focus was on another application, my shortcut would work but it would also be treated by the current application. For example, I have play/pause on Ctrl+Alt+Home. MM would react properly, but if I was in Outlook it would go to the top of my email list.

I set PreferLLKeysHook = 1 and now it works properly, i.e. only MM reacts.

BUT I had a problem when modifying mediamonkey.ini. Doing the modification with Windows built-in notepad somehow messes the file, because when I opened MM after that I had lost most of my settings (went back to default skin, default nodes, etc). Fortunately I had a backup of the file . Modifying it with Notepad++ worked correctly, now I have my settings and my global hotkeys.

Ludek wrote:

Boni2k wrote:My Hotkeys became inconsistent, too. But having added your proposed line to the INI file it seems to work fine again.

Could you describe the inconsistency?

Sorry for the long delay. I have to say the same as rycher. If Mediamonkey is focussed, the global hotkeys work fine. Even now, having set PreferLLKeysHook=1 the hotkeys do not work everytime (but mostly). Just right now they do not work and unfocussed Mediamonkey.

One behaviour that bugged me at first is that the full hotkey combination must be pressed in a short time to work. Here is what I mean: all my global hotkeys are Ctrl+Alt+something. If I wait a bit between pressing Ctrl+Alt and the something (all along holding Ctrl+Alt), somehow MM doesn't recognize the combination as its hotkey. Even if I hold the full combination from the start, for example to turn the volume up or down a lot, the hotkey stops being recognized after ~3 seconds. This was also the case with MM 3.0, so it's not a 3.1 specific behaviour/bug.

Before using MM I used Winamp, where the hotkeys would always react no matter how long they were held or if there was a delay to get the complete combination. I got used somewhat to MM behaviour, but it still bugs me a bit. I don't know if you could do something about this, of if there is an ini variable that could be set to increase the delay before MM stops recognizing a hotkey combination.

rycher wrote:One behaviour that bugged me at first is that the full hotkey combination must be pressed in a short time to work. Here is what I mean: all my global hotkeys are Ctrl+Alt+something. If I wait a bit between pressing Ctrl+Alt and the something (all along holding Ctrl+Alt), somehow MM doesn't recognize the combination as its hotkey. Even if I hold the full combination from the start, for example to turn the volume up or down a lot, the hotkey stops being recognized after ~3 seconds. This was also the case with MM 3.0, so it's not a 3.1 specific behaviour/bug.

Before using MM I used Winamp, where the hotkeys would always react no matter how long they were held or if there was a delay to get the complete combination. I got used somewhat to MM behaviour, but it still bugs me a bit. I don't know if you could do something about this, of if there is an ini variable that could be set to increase the delay before MM stops recognizing a hotkey combination.

Yes, but this (the 3 sec delay) is no longer the case for MM 3.1 (by default - i.e. supposing that LLKbdHookReceived=1 is not added to MM.ini file to force MM 3.0 hotkey handling).