Assign Keyboard Media Keys to Work in Winamp
Have you ever wondered how to make the media keys on your keyboard actually work for Winamp? Reader Shawn was asking me this question a while back, but then he figured it out on his own and sent me the instructions.
Turns out it's incredibly simple, and on most installations will be already set by default, but might not be enabled. If yours are not working, then you need to follow these instructions.
Open up the Winamp Preferences and the browse down to General Preferences \ Global Hotkeys.
The first thing you should check is whether the "Enabled" hotkey is checked. If it's not, then select that and most likely that will fix your issue.
If you need to manually change the settings instead, select the Action in the list, and then click inside the Hotkey textbox. Press the media key on your keyboard representing the function you are trying to do. For instance, I selected the Playback: Play/pause action in the list, so I pressed the Play button on my keyboard, which shows up as Play/Pause in the hotkey box.
Make sure you click the Set button when you make the change.
Mr. The Geek,
Thank you!! I've been wondering about how to make those keys work…I had not checked enable hotkeys. Now they work like a charm.
Great blog!
Vaughn
Now how do I do this with a laptop that only has the media keys when pressing the function button, as in "Fn+down" for play. Whenever I press fn+down, windows media player starts up. I would like to stop this from happening and have winamp do it instead. If that's not possible, I would at least like to be able to use the play/back/forward buttons like they should be.
Thanks!
Wow thank you so much, even though it was down to my pure laziness I never thought of checking winamps settings!
Had this keyboard for almost 1 year and now i can use it fully and all within 2 mins checking this page!
Thanks again
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