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I don't know about you, but WMP is a lot better than most of those crappy players out there.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Multimedia keys only work with the piece of crap that is Windows Media Player
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I prefer VLC to WMP but it is interesting to note that the keyboard buttons only work in an actual WMP window...I can't make them effect the WMP previewer that runs if I click on a sound file attached to an email (my voicemail).
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Media Keys work with any media program that recognizes them. The top three media players are WMP, iTunes, and Winamp. All three have APIs (Application Programming Interfaces, aka hooks for other programs to use to connect/control them).|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
There's a BIG problem with player-specific plugins, in that they're player-specific. You talk about iTunes, but I don't have, use or even WANT iTunes. I don't want a Media Player plugin, I don't want a VLC plugin and BY GOD I don't want a Real Player plugin. It's hard enough just to keep that piece of adware out of my startup, I don't want more plugins for it. If we did have a plugin, I'd want it to be for WinAMP, which others have already explained they don't use.
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I agree with you about Real Player.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It's like this - certain keyboards come with "interface buttons," such as "play next song" or "open browser" and such. The problem? Multimedia keys only work with the piece of crap that is Windows Media Player,
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* In VLC you have to bind the keys via the preferences.
** In Winamp, you might have to enable them in preferences.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
the browser button only ever calls the ****** Internet Explorer and the e-mail button calls up Microsoft Outlook. Why would I WANT to call up Microsoft Outlook?!? In essence, it gives me several keys that not only do I not want to use, but are often highly problematic because the programmes they call up are the Microsoft brand of fat and bloated, take hours to load and slap me with registration wizards that I have to confirm thrice that I want to cancel out of.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I don't want an ap for iTunes. I want one for WinAMP. I'm sure others don't want an ap for WinAMP, but would like one for iTunes. So what do you do?
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I just run Pandora via Firefox while playing. Never had a problem. Though it's hard to hear blinkies in the game while blasting Nine Inch Nails!!!
The multimedia keys never worked for me, and I set up my file priorities correctly. I wasn't aware there were control panel options to set what the multimedia keys do, largely because I've never seen a control panel option that suggested it might do this and keyboards no longer come with drivers. I'll have a look.
If it requires additional software plugins, though, I'm not sure I want to bother.
As far as Windows Media Player goes, I refuse to use it. It just takes ages to start up. I'd much sooner use Media Player Classic. As far as WinAMP having lots of bloated crap, you don't have to install any of those. There's a WinAMP light variant that has just the base skin with only the base plugins and if you refuse to install any of that crap, you get a perfectly light player. It was actually embedded in the last set of video codecs I downloaded.
If you're actually suggesting that you can get one in-game plugin to control all kinds of players that I might own, I'd give it a shot. But I just know that such a thing just wouldn't work with the stuff I use. It always happens like that.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The multimedia keys never worked for me, and I set up my file priorities correctly. I wasn't aware there were control panel options to set what the multimedia keys do, largely because I've never seen a control panel option that suggested it might do this and keyboards no longer come with drivers. I'll have a look.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
If you're actually suggesting that you can get one in-game plugin to control all kinds of players that I might own, I'd give it a shot. But I just know that such a thing just wouldn't work with the stuff I use. It always happens like that.
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