How many media players do you have installed on your Windows PC? I bet more than one. The most popular of them are Windows Media Player, VLC, Classic Media Player, Winamp and others. Everyone knows that different media players have different shortcut keys or shortcut keys, and it becomes difficult to remember everything and use them correctly every time. Common actions such as Play, Volume Up, Volume Down, Next, Previous, Mute, and Pause require different shortcut keys on each media player.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could define a common set of shortcut keys, which would work for almost any media player on your computer? If so, you will definitely find this article helpful.
I found an app called wed/h or Media player keyboard shortcuts which allows you to define custom hotkeys or hotkeys that can be used to control various media players on your computer. That simplifies things!
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MPH – Media Player Hotkey
Media Player Hotkeys is a portable and free Windows application that requires no installation. You download a ZIP file, extract it to a folder and run the executable file. Once you run it, you will see the following window with four tabs namely
- Shortcuts
- Players
- Choice
- To help
Shortcuts: This is the key section that does the trick. In the right section, you can see a drop-down list and three buttons down. All you have to do is choose an action from the list, be it play, pause, next, previous, etc., then click on the “Add Shortcut” button. This brings up another window. Choose an appropriate key by checking the boxes/radio buttons and list items. Click “Accept”.
That’s it; now you can use hotkey on all media players. Similarly, you can assign hotkeys for different actions available in the drop-down list and use them regardless of the media player currently in use.
Players: This is the section that informs you about the software support for the different drives. Note that MPH does not provide full support for some of the older media players. They are listed under this tab. Currently 19 media players are supported and include 1×1, AIMP, AIMP3, ALPlayer, ALSong, Billy, CoolPlayer, Foobar2000 WA, Foobar2000, KMPlayer, Light Alloy, Media Player Classic, PotPlayer, Quintessential Media Player, Screamer Radio, STP, Spider Player, Trout, VLC, Winamp and Windows Media Player.
Option : Provides settings and options for using MPH.
To help: The tab gives some general advice.
You can visit the developers website ici to download MPH.
Although there is no inbuilt option, you can try Media Player Hotkey. It helps you to set various hotkeys even when your media player doesn’t support them. This freeware is compatible with Windows Media Player, VLC, Classic Media Player, etc.
Are there keyboard shortcuts for Windows Media Player?
Yes, there are several keyboard shortcuts for Windows Media Player. Whether you are using Windows 11 or Windows 10, you can easily use these keyboard shortcuts. For example, Ctrl+7 helps you add a song to play, Ctrl+F helps you play the next item, etc.
Removal of shortcut keys
In order to delete the keys assigned to you, you must delete the folder where you extracted the application zip file. Just delete the folder and you can remove all hotkeys.
