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The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone
by jay_m 13y ago
The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.
- TheSOB88 13y agoFoobar does. You have to configure it but you can do it.
- mih 13y agotry foobar
- unethical_ban 13y agoTheSOB88, you are dead, my friend. Another casualty of a poor policy.
- MetaCosm 13y agoAHK (http://www.autohotkey.com/ http://www.autohotkey.com/) -- Global keybindings for any app you want.
- jay_m 13y agoWow I'd forgotten about AHK. Thanks for reminding me!
- criley2 13y agoOut of curiosity: I use AHK to do basic testing automation for a windows application that I have literally zero ability to control programatically (to achieve actually good automated testing). Anyone have a better option for this kind of use case?
- decode 13y agoAutoIt is a popular choice: http://www.autoitscript.com/ http://www.autoitscript.com/
- jbrooksuk 13y agoAHK is based on AutoIt v2.
- npsimons 13y agoI've used AHK for the same things - it's about the best free/open source thing I've found, besides just adding a scripting language to your program.
- jaredsohn 13y agoI wrote some software (http://www.mute.fm/ http://www.mute.fm/) that controls playback for you automatically when you watch a video (it will pause/mute it and resume it afterward.) It also lets you set up global hotkeys.
- Freaky 13y agofoobar2000, Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Add/select appropriate entry and check "Global hotkey". I have Ctrl-Pause bound to Play/Pause, Ctrl-PgUp to Previous and Ctrl-PgDn to Next.
- Havoc 13y agoNB if you have a media keyboard with the play/pause buttons etc then this is no necessary.