Feel free to request full compatibility for a program (see 'Feedback / Bugs' section). Also, there is a 'generic media player' option which provides limited controls for a huge number of media programs. Currently, they are the only fully compatible programs but others are constantly being added (VLC is next). The compatible media players are as follows Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp, foobar2000, MediaMonkey. The controls available are Play/Pause, Skip to Next Track, Skip to Previous Track (the last two can be held down to rewind / fast-forward the current track). This works even if you haven't invested in an overpriced keyboard with built-in media keys but if you do already have one, MediaKeys offers a greater level of control and has fantastically useful extra functions. Remember to restart windows after changing that.MediaKeys is a free, small, portable program for Windows, which runs from your system tray, that allows you to set specific keys (now fully customizable) on your keyboard to control your media player globally. There you can turn off many non-essential things from windows, and they will no longer stick around (sometimes as "suspended processes") and cause delays for everything else. Depending on each case, the app that is causing the delay - windows may not allow you to uninstall it (things such as "Search" or "Cortana" or "Settings") If that's the case, then go to the Control Panel and search for "Background apps". The app causing the delay might be different for each computer, but do read this if you have the same problem:Įdit2 - To discover which app is causing the delay, go to the Task Manager, try to terminate one app that feel suspicious, and try the shortcut again to see if the delay disappeared. I fixed it by uninstalling from Windows' "Mail & Calendar", and a bunch of other windows applications that I didn't use anyway. Thank you very much again, and keep making MediaMonkey great! <3Įdit1 - A bit more extra info for the future: after a while, even without ASUS' faulty software, the 4-second delay returned. The Global Hotkeys of MediaMonkey still do not work directly, but with the help of the MMKeys.exe tool, my problem is now completely solved.
Windows then used it's own default drivers for my keyboard, which are working perfectly fine. I completely uninstalled every single piece of ASUS ROG software from windows, and rebooted my computer. It turns out that the ASUS ROG ARMOURY is trash, and was causing several random problems in windows including causing my keyboard to crash and stop responding to the "FN" key (needed for the media keys), and also was causing the 4 second delay.
Previously I had downloaded and installed the ASUS ROG ARMOURY software pack, which is the only way to install the manufacturer's drivers manually. MediaMonkey still rocks! (even if with some 15-year-old-hacks)Ĭoincident wrote: ↑ Thu 4:20 pmI tried download the latest keyboard drivers from my manufacturer I'm angry at windows 10 for all of this mess. I will try to clean up my keyboard drivers to see if it helps with the delay. So instead I used CTRL+ALT+P manually for Pause/Play for example, and that is working, even though it has a 4 second delay.Įither way, the main problem is solved for now.
If I try to assign to the shortcuts the media keys, windows "translates" them into CTRL+ALT+G/P/T, and they never work at all. It took me a while to realize this only works if the shortcuts placed directly in the Desktop, and only AFTERWARDS can the shortcut keys be set.
Then I edited the properties of each shortcut and set the desired shortcut keys from my keyboard. I installed the MMKeys as per the description, and created 3 shortcuts for the executable with the correct args for Play/Pause, Next, Stop. That took some work, but I eventually got it to work.
To be honest except that Digital Signature expired and you need to ignore it (More Info -> RUN ANYWAY) it still works flawlessly.
Please read "MMKeys.txt" on command line usage or if you wish to evade command line read "Appendix" on how to rename "MMkeys.exe" in order to make it work.
To cut things short download last update version extract to some folder like c:\MMkeys (that is the folder Setup file installs it). I just tested and my 15 years old app still works you can read about it at.