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I've searched the forums with no luck in finding hot keys for windows media player when it has been minimized to the task bar. Since my coding skills are limited, here's my work around for WMP hot keys:



Essentially, the script performs the following actions:
1. grabs the current mouse position
2. moves the mouse to an absolute screen position and clicks
3. returns the mouse to its previous position

The screen coordinates of the next track, previous track, and play/pause buttons can be found using Window Spy. Substitute those coordinates in for those listed above.

Take a look at
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/SendMessage.htm



More wParams:
32834 - Play Speed: Fast
32835 - Play Speed: Normal
32836 - Play Speed: Slow

32815 - Volume Up
32816 - Volume Down
32817 - Volume Mute (toggle)

32842 - Shuffle (toggle)
32843 - Repeat (toggle)

32779 - Open "Properties" dialog
32780 - View Full Mode
32781 - View Compact Mode
32782 - Full screen (toggle)

32783 - Show/Hide Playlist (toggle)
32787 - Show/Hide Media Information (toggle)
32789 - Show/Hide Equilizer (toggle)
32791 - Show/Hide Title (toggle)

19721 - Show Menu Bar
19722 - Hide Menu Bar
19723 - Autohide Menu Bar
19724 - Hide Taskbar (toggle)

WMP can be minimized to the taskbar or minimized to become a toolbar (i.e. beneath the taskbar). I have tried these commands and others while WMP is minimized to a toolbar and I have found only the mouseclick commands to work.

You could always try the media key bindings.



Not sure is they will work with a completely non media keyboard. Mine has media buttons but does not have next and prev track.

The above works on it as when as toolbar as it sends the global media next and prev commands that should always go to WMP when it is running.

Hope it helps

P.s. the rest of the keys available can be found here

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm

Though the ones your probably interested in are:
Media_Next
Media_Prev
Media_Stop
Media_Play_Pause

cheers

Wow, that was a simple fix. It works perfectly. Thanks for the link to the key list...that will be helpful in future projects.