[Desktop] Global HotKeys for Pause/Play, Skip, etc.

[Wurdo]

It would be nice to have an Global Hotkey so you can pause/play your music while browsing and not switching between screens. Or when you are gaming and you want another song but you don't want to alt tab and stay idle, a (customizable?)  Global Hotkey(i.g. ctrl+shift+right) would be such an great improvement in the usefulness of Spotify.

[jcleeeland]

How does the Toastfy thing work? Do i just download it?

PS I am also surprised Spotify haven't got this already built in!

[oeskpes]

Google for "Blockify"

It alows you to use global Hotkeys,simply as that.

[idStar]

On the Mac, just use the app 'Take Five' from the Icon Factory. It sits in your menu bar. I've assigned F1 as my play/pause toggle for Spotify. See: http://takefiveapp.com

[Kosta]

Well, I am a bit disappointed that this feature hasn't been built in. Spotify is a great service, and IMO it pays off, but they need to listen to their users.

I now have a Premium service, but to be honest, if this feature doesn't find it's way into Spotify, I see myself leaving, as harsh as it sounds.

[globalthinker]

This feature is still lacking in Spotify for all of us who don't have media keyboards. At least there's a nice program for Windows that solves the problem: Tostify.

[mjblack]

What did Spotify change to make it work with media keyboards in Windows 7? I can now minimize Spotify and still use the media keys on my keyboard. This won't work with VLC...

There has to be something different between the two. And I can't stop using VLC until Spotify supports .flac files (I'm not going to keep an .mp3 and a .flac version of every song).

[CocaCola124]

If you have Windows 7 and a keyboard that has the pause/play/skip/back icons over the F9,F11, and F12 keys, you can hold FN and press one of the buttons to do this, so only certain keyboards do it I guess.

[MusicMix]

I would very much like such a feature, I've tried both Toastify and AutoHotkey. Both of these works as charms, but I must admit I'm quite the fan of limiting number of third-party software running in my background. Therefore I would really appreciate a built-in support for this global hotkeys, where the user is able to define his own key-combination for activating different features. This could be good for Spotify as well, since they can give the users endless of features to use, such as "add to #somePlaylist" and similar features.

[Lorene13]

Yes, I would love to see customizable global hot keys added to Spotify! Play, pause, stop, skip track fwd/bck, vol. up/dwn; the ability to star tracks via hot keys. And being able to do all these things from another tab or window would be perfect. Yes I know that these have been mentioned in previous comments - I am merely reiterating how great these options would be 🙂

[bobtail]

Like , Dislike, Delete file (from hard drive or playlist) would also be a nice function.