Media Keys Using Youtube and Not Spotify

[Nochocheez]

Plan

Premium

Country

US

Device

PC

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.

[Melissa-Medic]

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

[Melissa-Medic · Accepted solution]

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

[xxmegashot]

same here, very bizzare issue

[BearBuddyCookie]

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

[teamrotnick]

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@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

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Thanks, this worked for me!

[teamrotnick]

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@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

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Thanks, this worked for me!

[xxmegashot]

can confirm this just worked for me, cheers mate

[Skdg_1]

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

[hamsterboya25]

Worked!! You're the goat

[iamsansastark]

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

[videotechdude]

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

[janix0]

THANK YOU!

[Archon810]

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.

[12134854415]

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

[poeticamazon]

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

[stevelacerda]

It works just fine!

[stevelacerda]

It worked!