Hi, I just switched from GNU/Linux to Windows 7 for a time. I'm looking for a MPD client that can do one thing:
I'd like it to respond to multimedia keys while not focused. I.e. minimized to tray or taskbar, I can still hit the button on my mouse or keyboard mapped to the key "play/pause"
GMPC can't, nor Auremo, nor WpfMpdClient. I haven't got Ario working yet, but I'm not hopeful that a native GTK application is going to do this specific thing.
Any advice? Thanks!
Eric
Windows MPD client for multimedia keys
Re: Windows MPD client for multimedia keys
I got this working, but not real elegantly.
I found an application that lets keys be mapped to arbitrary commands; it's called HotKeyP, found at http://petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/others.html
HotKeyP has the proper "hooks" to listen to hotkeys even when minimized to tray. (It probably doesn't work if another application using those same multimedia keys is focused.)
I used this application to map the Play/Pause key to the command-line version of mpc. (e.g. mpc -h musicserver toggle). Finding the command line version of mpc for windows was surprisingly the hardest part, but I finally found it right here on this website:
http://www.musicpd.org/download/mpc/0/m ... -win32.zip
By the way, I'm using the thumb-button on my Logitech MX Revolution to control MPD - push in to play/pause, forward and back advance and rewind the track.
Hope this helps someone else.
I found an application that lets keys be mapped to arbitrary commands; it's called HotKeyP, found at http://petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/others.html
HotKeyP has the proper "hooks" to listen to hotkeys even when minimized to tray. (It probably doesn't work if another application using those same multimedia keys is focused.)
I used this application to map the Play/Pause key to the command-line version of mpc. (e.g. mpc -h musicserver toggle). Finding the command line version of mpc for windows was surprisingly the hardest part, but I finally found it right here on this website:
http://www.musicpd.org/download/mpc/0/m ... -win32.zip
By the way, I'm using the thumb-button on my Logitech MX Revolution to control MPD - push in to play/pause, forward and back advance and rewind the track.
Hope this helps someone else.
