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Spotify download individual songs. If you’re having issues with your keyboard media keys not working in desktop apps when the Chrome browser is running, this post is for you.
There is simple, but not-obvious way to stop Chrome ‘stealing’ your media keys when the browser is open. You don’t need to download or install anything, and the trick works on Windows, maOS and Linux systems alike.
Google Chrome’s hardware media key handling feature (to give it its full name) is pretty handy, especially if you use streaming sites like Spotify Web, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, etc frequently.
But it’s also pretty annoying when you press pause/play/next/previous buttons to skip a track in a desktop app like iTunes, only for nothing to happen at all.
Although this “feature” is enabled by default you can disable it, and here’s how.
Disable Chrome’s Hardware Media Key Feature
Google Chrome supports keyboard media keys and the feature is undoubtedly helpful for most. https://treerecipes742.weebly.com/amazon-alexa-free-spotify-premium.html.
What spoils things is the fact Chrome “listens” to your media keys all the time that the browser is open. This happens regardless of whether you have the app in focus or running in the background.
And this is precisely where the annoyance creeps in. You only want desktop apps to respond to keyboard media key presses, not your web browser.
Thankfully there is a simple, built-in way to disable the feature if this behaviour isn’t one you want. https://treerecipes742.weebly.com/spotify-no-sound-mac.html.
To stop Chrome being able to intercept your media keyboard shortcut do the following:
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That’s it!
You will now find that Chrome no longer responds to your keyboard’s media keys on ANY website that usually supports them, e.g., Spotify Web.
Letras de canciones spotify mac. If you decide you want the ability back you can repeat the steps above but this time select the “Enabled” option instead of “Disabled“.
In summary:
I've recently upgraded my laptop (after the 6 years my previous MacBookPro latest) and I've now got one of these touchbar things. It's cute, but I know that my laptop will be closed for 90% of the time and attach to an external monitor and keyboard.
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That said, it absolutely does my head in that the control strip's 'play/pause' button will only control iTunes/Music. So I fixed that.
Karabiner Elements to the rescue
I've been using Karabiner Elements for a while now and it's a superb bit of software. It gives you complete control over the keyboard and sits in between and gives you the ability to completely change what the operating system actually sees.
So it stands to reason that I could capture the play/pause key press and completely take it over and send it to Spotify instead. It's not quite that simple, but it's no too far off.
Step one is to download and install Karabiner Elements. Once you've got that running, it needs to see the touch bar - which apparently announces itself as an entirely separate keyboard. So check this box:
Now Karabiner can see your keyboard - and a quick way to test this is to head to 'Simple Modifications' and add 'play_or_pause' and map it to (something like) 'mute'. Now test the play control strip button - if it mutes, then it's working and the next step is to create a 'complex modification' to control Spotify (you should remove the simple modification now).
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From Karabiner Elements' preferences, on the Misc tab, click on the button the reads 'Open config folder'. This is where we'll add the following in new JSON file. Under the directory
complex_modifications (make it if it doesn't exist), add this file as touchbar.json (or as you please):
This says: when the button pressed is
play_or_pause then run an applescript and prevent the keyup. You can determine the key value from the Karabiner ElementsViewer that's also installed.
The Apple Script
The last bit of the puzzle, you need to store this file in the same directory as the
touchbar.json file (or change the location in the shell_command value).
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And that…should be it. I now have control over my own machine, which is frankly how it should always be.
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Honourable mention to Better Touch Tool which looks like it might do the job, but I'm already familiar with Karabiner and Karabiner definitely does the job!
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