Unable to remove music player from taskbar preferences

[Xbye]

As the title says. It's really annoying. I've been using a setup for the past 6 years that worked well for me and I knew from memory how far to move my mouse to click each individual section.

Unfortunately though, with the introduction of the music player, everything is out of order. The pop-out when right-clicking is now more spaced out, and there is a new line saying: Music Player. I'm unable to find an option in the Set Taskbar Preferences section in Interface settings.

[TheOddsBodkins]

The option to hide it isn't there, but you can edit your localconfig.vdf file manually to hide it. Seems to me somebody just forgot to add the option in the settings.

To hide the music player item manually: first close Steam, find your localconfig.vdf file (it's in the 'userdata\<userid>\config' directory), open the file in text editor (don't use Windows notepad. I recommend using Notepad++ or similar), in the file find a value called "JumplistSettings", subtract 32768 from that value and save the file. Restart Steam and the Music player item should not show up in the taskbar menu anymore.

This works because the "JumplistSettings" value is a bit field value of booleans and each bit represents an item in the taskbar menu and the bit for the music player item is the sixteenth bit in the value (1000 0000 0000 0000) which is 32768 in decimal number. To hide the music player item the sixteenth bit must be zero, so in this case, we can simply subtract the number 32768 from the value to zero the bit.