Music player-key bindings

[BearlyBusy]

(this is a repost after reading the faq and realizing that the feedback button brought me to this page instead of suggestions)

Ok I love that steam is now a music player as well. But heres my problem im using the logitech wave and none of the music player buttons work, i can even reporogram the keys to do bindings, but without steam telling us or adding the binding it just leaves us to hunt and peck with a mouse for musi!c imagine your playing your favorite game great dialoge but terrible music so you play your own soundtrack but you want to hear the dialog and everytime you have to shift tab out search for the music browser and manually click it. Its a little frustrating and a lot of keyboards have this feature! so please steam add this into your next update!

Id love it to be automatic (wmp, itunes, and even vlc can dot his steam needs to aswell with music) but i would settle for a key combination to bind the buttons to.

[Tenacious Impy]

I created a small program that lets you bind your multimedia keys to the Steam music player. It's what I've been using when playing Steam games. You can Download it here[www.keyboardp.me].

[BearlyBusy]

Interesting, I may give it a try when I get out of work, but how did you bind the steam music controls to a key? i would prefer to run less programs and since im using logitechs setpoint already i can make the keyboard do whatever i want. Let me know im very impressed!

[Tenacious Impy]

Sure, if you can have setpoints 'launch' programs, you can call the Steam Music Player protocols described here. (Copy/pasted music part below)

steam://musicplayer/<command>
play
pause
toggleplaypause
playprevious
playnext
togglemute
increasevolume
decreasevolume
toggleplayingrepeatstatus
toggleplayingshuffled

If you're running Windows and go to Start...Run and type in one of these commands (e.g.steam://musicplayer/toggleplaypause), it controls the music player. My app simply does that (after detecting which key the user pressed). You may not need the app if Setpoint can bind your key to launch a program that is located at the above commands.

Hope that helps!

[BearlyBusy]

Set point does have the ability to launch programs in fact, however after trying it (briefly) it didnt seam to do anything other than pull up the main steam window. So i gave you little program a run and found it couldnt detect me pressing the play or forwards buttons which may be a propietary issue with logitech. It works in itunes and wmp but i dont want to run those clunky things in the background. So I bound them to some function keys instead and now i am happily jamming to my tunes while playing my games! so thank you keyboardP! you were a big help!

[Tenacious Impy]

You're welcome HeyItsBOOM, glad I could help :) Hopefully it being built in won't be too far off!

[BearlyBusy]

thats what im hoping for. This is a great stop gap in the mean time, i just wanted to make sure it was suggested as well!

[Mr. not Steven]

;======STEAM MUSIC======
Numpad2::Run, steam://musicplayer/toggleplaypause
Numpad3::Run, steam://musicplayer/playnext
Numpad1::Run, steam://musicplayer/playprevious
NumpadDot::Run, steam://musicplayer/togglemute
Numpad9::Run, steam://musicplayer/increasevolume
Numpad6::Run, steam://musicplayer/decreasevolume

You can set it to a shortcut with autohotkey.

And for the 'noobs':
1. Download autohotkey (autohotkey download[www.autohotkey.com]) It will download when you open it
2. Install autohotkey
3. Go anywhere where you want to save the script (for instance your desktop) and right click > new > autohotkey script and name it any way you want
4. Select and right click the new file and press edit script you should get a notepad
5. Paste the code in there
6. Edit the key combinations you can see what you can use here[www.autohotkey.com]

For instance instead of:

Numpad6::Run, steam://musicplayer/decreasevolume

you can do:

LCrtl & Up::Run, steam://musicplayer/decreasevolume

I hope this helps
And thanks Tenacious for the commands wouldn't be able to do this without those