Key board play button adjustment

[stabash12]

Hey guys! I have a little bit of a wierd situation. Here's what's happening...

I open up Spotify and will be working on a project or playing a game. A song comes up that i don't like or I need to answer a call so I need to pause the music. On my key board (A Dell Inspiron 15 "3000 series") there is a skip, pause/play, and back button for music/media. If I press them, they work fine. I can pause, skip, or replay music without having to open the app back up again. But, if I have Google Crome up (my primary Web user), the buttons won't work. I'm assuming its because Google Chrome takes priorty over the two so the pausing and skipping buttons are sending commands to it rather than to Spotify. I'd like it so that the buttons on my key board can still send commands to Spotify and pause or skip music even if Google Chrome is up. Is this possible? If so, how?

~Jacob

[Hubo]

Hey @stabash12! Welcome to the Spotify Community!

That's not cool! Could you try these steps here:

• Open the Chrome app menu
• Select Tools > Extensions
• Click the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ link at the bottom of the page
• Find the Google Play Music section
• Change any specified media key options from ‘Global’ to ‘In Chrome’

Let me know how it goes! 🙂

Have a great day!

[stabash12]

**bleep**! YOU'RE THE BEST! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Dang, that's such a huge help!

[Hubo]

Hey @stabash12!

Awesome to hear things are working again! If you ever need me again, you know where to find me! 😉

Keep Rockin'!

[stabash12]

Awesome! Thank you so much. I'll be in touch if I need anything. You were a
huge help.

[stabash12]

Ya. Even if Spotify was the selected app I was on and I was going through
music or someyhing, I couldn't use the key board shortcuts. What was given
earlier as an asset worked though. Now I can play my games in peace 😂