topic Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar in Desktop (Windows)

No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

hassanwahid — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:43:06 GMT

In the new version 0.8.8.349 there is no pause/next/previous buttons when you hover over the spotify application on Win7 task bar. This was so convenient to pause music quickly. Please add this back

thanks

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

Liam — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:48:07 GMT

@hassanwahid wrote:

In the new version 0.8.8.349 there is no pause/next/previous buttons when you hover over the spotify application on Win7 task bar. This was so convenient to pause music quickly. Please add this back

thanks

That functionality is still there - you have to disable the hide from taskbar when closed option.

Liam

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

hassanwahid — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:06:41 GMT

Thanks for getting back so quicky!

I cant seem to find that setting. Looked in Edit/Preferences and under account settings

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

Liam — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:09:55 GMT

@hassanwahid wrote:

Thanks for getting back so quicky!

I cant seem to find that setting. Looked in Edit/Preferences and under account settings

Right click on the system tray icon 🙂

Liam

(You will have to restart Spotify for it to work)

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

hassanwahid — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:12:59 GMT

Awesome!! thanks so much!

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

Peter__ — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:31:21 GMT

There is also an open bug topic here about the multimedia controls incase you ever get some unexplained behaviour where the buttons dissappear!

Peter

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

ThaJeweler — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:26 GMT

I found the setting and it is not enabled...

The feature just vanished with the last update...

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

Liam — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:29:43 GMT

@ThaJeweler wrote:

I found the setting and it is not enabled...

The feature just vanished with the last update...

I still have the ThaJeweler 🙂

Please could you:

Disable the hide from taskbar when closed option (I know you said it is already disabled, but make sure)
Close and re-open Spotify
Check if the options are now there 🙂

Also, don't hide the taskbar 🙂

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

user-removed — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:25:54 GMT

My media controls have vanished from the spotify task bar entry as well, not sure when, but it was recently.

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
Spotify 0.9.10.14
The "Hide from Task Bar" Option was not checked (never has been)
My task bar is not set to auto hide
I have exited and restarted spotify
Premium account

It is very annoying - I don't have media controls on my keyboard and I relied on the task bar controls.

Happy to do tests, install debug code etc.

Thanks.

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

Peter__ — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:23:54 GMT

Possible to grab a screenshot? This was an open bug for a while but it was believed to be fixed.

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

user-removed — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:00:48 GMT

This was my work PC, I just remoted in from home to check and of course it is now working 🙂

However, at work I have dual monitors and I had just closed everything down for reboot so maybe that made a difference.

I'll check again tomorrow.

Thanks.

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

hassanwahid — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:53:45 GMT

this has been working fine, for some reason after an update it was hidden. Just followed the steps given afte the original post:

"That functionality is still there - you have to disable the hide from taskbar when closed option.

Liam"

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

elevatedsteve — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:28:46 GMT

I found that those controls would dissapear when I pinned the icon to the taskbar. I unpinned it and restarted spotify and the controls are back.

Re: No Pause/Next/Previous buttons on Win7 task bar

eliaspizarro — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:04:52 GMT

just run as administrator, close and open as user (normal)