topic Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify in Desktop (Windows)

Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

Nochocheez — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 01:54:52 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Starting 2 days ago my Spotify hasn't actually been using my pause/play media key, instead it just pauses/plays youtube in chrome. I looked up solutions and nothing so far has worked. I've disabled all of my chrome extensions, tried the fixes in services.msc yet nothing works. I don't have google music installed either so I have no idea why this is happening.

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

Melissa-Medic — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:31:45 GMT

It's happening to me also, if anyone find a solution

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

Melissa-Medic — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:59:38 GMT

I've found a solution for chrome; chrome://flags in url box, then ctrl + f to open the search and write ''hardware media'' and you should get: Hardware Media Key Handling, so disable it and restart chrome and it should be working as usual now

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

xxmegashot — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:15:39 GMT

same here, very bizzare issue

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

BearBuddyCookie — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:52:15 GMT

My guess is that with a new update on Chrome or YouTube, a YT video is able to hijack the media buttons. This solutions worked perfectly for me! Thanks

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

teamrotnick — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:04:49 GMT

@Melissa-Medic wrote:
I've found a solution for chrome; chrome://flags in url box, then ctrl + f to open the search and write ''hardware media'' and you should get: Hardware Media Key Handling, so disable it and restart chrome and it should be working as usual now

Thanks, this worked for me!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

teamrotnick — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:04:18 GMT

@Melissa-Medic wrote:
I've found a solution for chrome; chrome://flags in url box, then ctrl + f to open the search and write ''hardware media'' and you should get: Hardware Media Key Handling, so disable it and restart chrome and it should be working as usual now

Thanks, this worked for me!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

xxmegashot — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:29:42 GMT

can confirm this just worked for me, cheers mate

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

Skdg_1 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:47:32 GMT

I love you so **bleep**ing much. Thanks

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

hamsterboya25 — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:10:04 GMT

Worked!! You're the goat

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

iamsansastark — Sat, 04 May 2019 12:31:15 GMT

This has actually been the bane of my life. You have absolutely made my week with this. THANK YOU!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

videotechdude — Tue, 21 May 2019 06:33:51 GMT

Thank you so so so much! That was really starting to annoy me. Easy fix. Thanks!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

janix0 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:13:59 GMT

THANK YOU!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

Archon810 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 21:06:00 GMT

Oddly, this solution is not working for me.

Any other ideas?

https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1170021507654832128

Edit: Spotify restart did it for me. Odd.

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

12134854415 — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:13:47 GMT

Thank you very much, it worked...now i can breath normally again.

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

poeticamazon — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:33:44 GMT

Genius. Not sure how you even knew to look for this. Excellent help- saved me lots of time and frustration!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

stevelacerda — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:44:27 GMT

It works just fine!

Re: Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

stevelacerda — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:43:09 GMT

It worked!