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    Anyway to change the music controls on the front of the laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Cathryes, Apr 22, 2007.

  1. Cathryes

    Cathryes Notebook Guru

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    In vista is there anyway to change the controls to work with winamp and not just WMP?

    Thanks
     
    Cathryes, Apr 22, 2007
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Go into Winamp Preferences. Find Global Hotkeys on the left-hand pane. There you will be able to map the buttons to certain player functions. You need to have Winamp open to use these hotkeys or else WMP will use it by default.
     
    vestige, Apr 22, 2007
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    Sorry I should of said what I tried before:
    Ive tried Global Hotkeys in perference in WinAmp but got these errors:
    Hotkey registration failed! Couldnt register the follow hotkeys
    playback :play

    What I did was click on play in global hotkeys they hit the play button.
    then clicked add.


    Anyother place were I can get this to work? Or am i doing it wrong?
     
    Cathryes, Apr 22, 2007
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    Those buttons won't work with Winamp man.. only Jet Audio, WMP, itunes (maybe), and Klite codec Media Classic player.

    If you want JetAudio pro PM me. It's a great program with lots of tweaking sound effects and convert tools for audio and video. Unfortunately it doesn't support the Library well. I hope the new version will improve this. Version 7 does have a library like itunes but i think it needs further improvement.
     
    khanhfat, Apr 23, 2007
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    Are you using the new beta version fo winamp, I am on my Vista 6400 and they work perfectly.
     
    dd1989, Apr 23, 2007
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