topic Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs in Desktop (Windows)

Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

Ragedanti — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:55:32 GMT

so this problem came up yesterday. I believe this was also the same day I updated chrome. Before yesterday i could use the media keys on my corsair k70 to pause and play songs no matter what i was doing. Now whenever have a tab (like youtube or twitch) my pause and play button automatically goes to that tab that was last opened (skip and backwards buttons still work on spotify only). I have looked into the problem for almost two days and thew only thing i find is google music taking the media keys. The only problem is that i don't even have that extension on my chrome. If anyone can help only set my media keys only to spotify or disable them from working on chrome in general that would be very helpful.

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

HammyTV — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 03:15:49 GMT

chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling

Paste into chrome, then choose disable from the drop down on the left of the highlighted text.

stolen from a different post, but it worked for me.

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

Mauvai — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:43:46 GMT

You're a gem sir, a proper hard fix

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

Ragedanti — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:15:24 GMT

You're a true hero.

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

pazeenii — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 10:04:26 GMT

Thank you so much; you are my hero!

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

paty5 — Mon, 27 May 2019 15:40:41 GMT

this guy proves that you don't need a cape to be a true hero

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

smgil86 — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:32:07 GMT

I have this disabled and it fixed this problem when playing from the Pandora website, but I am still getting the annoying pop up when I use the Spotify app. Anyone know if there are specific settings you have to change for Spotify specifically?

Thanks!

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

Mauvai — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:00:05 GMT

The spotify overlay is a spotify specific selection - go to spotify preferences, scroll down to display options and uncheck "show overlay when using media keys"

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

Archon810 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 21:06:23 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 being taken over by chrome tabs

KensKiwiKhakis — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:16:30 GMT

One year later and this man is still saving lives thank you kind stranger now I can listen to sicko mode while eating my travvy patty with my media keys

Re: Media keys being taken over by chrome tabs

elishalai5 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:22:45 GMT

Three years later, still saving lives. Thanks HammyTV you sir are a true legend 👏🏼