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    Inspiron Media Buttons: Configure/Customize (w/ Winamp)

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by davron, Jul 29, 2007.

  1. davron

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    Winamp is my favorite mp3 player ( www.winamp.com ) which I use all the time and I noticed that the Inspiron's Media button's work only with Windows Media Player (11) which I don't like. It just doesn't read cyrilic ID3 tags and it's hard to edit the tags in it

    Is there any way to "teach" the media buttons to work with winamp? Maybe registry hacks? Or winamp plugins? Or additional software Or something?

    Thanks.
     
    davron, Jul 29, 2007
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    On my 1520 these buttons work great with winamp. I did select the Global Hotkey functionality in Preferences, maybe that helps?
     
    paulmadejong, Jul 29, 2007
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  3. davron

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    Yep, I got it! Thank you very much :)
     
    davron, Jul 29, 2007
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  4. davron

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    UPDATE: for future reference:

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    PS: +1 Rep Power for you :)
     
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    DoubleBlack, Jul 29, 2007
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    it does work for me (1520), but thanks for the link anyway!
     
    davron, Jul 29, 2007
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    Alright, well while doing mine I had trouble because the pause and play button are the same - and everytime I'd hit play/pause it'd just hit "play" and start the media over again from the start instead of actually pausing. The plugin is the best, and easiest...
     
    DoubleBlack, Jul 29, 2007
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    anybody knows where to find a plugin for the core media player so i can watch my videos with the media keys? would be awesome!
     
    Underhill, Jan 23, 2008
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