Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by jay_m on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:09PM (#6770309)

The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by Freaky on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:28PM (#6770918)

foobar2000, Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Add/select appropriate entry and check "Global hotkey".

I have Ctrl-Pause bound to Play/Pause, Ctrl-PgUp to Previous and Ctrl-PgDn to Next.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by Havoc on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:48PM (#6776127)

NB if you have a media keyboard with the play/pause buttons etc then this is no necessary.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by unethical_ban on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:33PM (#6770517)

TheSOB88, you are dead, my friend. Another casualty of a poor policy.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by MetaCosm on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:36PM (#6770538)

AHK (http://www.autohotkey.com/) -- Global keybindings for any app you want.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by criley2 on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:14PM (#6771587)

Out of curiosity: I use AHK to do basic testing automation for a windows application that I have literally zero ability to control programatically (to achieve actually good automated testing). Anyone have a better option for this kind of use case?

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by npsimons on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:59PM (#6771864)

I've used AHK for the same things - it's about the best free/open source thing I've found, besides just adding a scripting language to your program.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by decode on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:51PM (#6771807)

AutoIt is a popular choice:

http://www.autoitscript.com/

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by jbrooksuk on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:55AM (#6774036)

AHK is based on AutoIt v2.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by jay_m on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:44PM (#6770608)

Wow I'd forgotten about AHK. Thanks for reminding me!

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by jaredsohn on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:42PM (#6770592)

I wrote some software (http://www.mute.fm/) that controls playback for you automatically when you watch a video (it will pause/mute it and resume it afterward.) It also lets you set up global hotkeys.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by mih on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:13PM (#6770355)

try foobar

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