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[Lars Uebernickel <lars.uebernickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is up to the applications to grab media keys if they're playing
something. The sound menu doesn't listen to those keys at all.

Please file a bug against individual applications if they don't support
media keys. The latest spotify does listen to those keys.

** Changed in: indicator-sound
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Media hotkeys should act on the last active music player

Status in Sound Menu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Curently, play/pause/previous/next hotkeys (e.g. special keyboard
  media keys or other keys that are defined as shortcuts) work only for
  the default music player (Rhythmbox), so for example if I'm listening
  to music in Spotify and want to pause it - the pause button doesn't do
  anything.

  Expected behaviour - the sound menu (or some other background service)
  should keep track of the player that played music last (or is still
  playing it) and redirect all the hotkey actions to it. It would be
  awesome, for example, if I could pause Youtube videos using these keys
  when they are the ones playing at the moment (of course, once the
  movie ends, and its sound menu controls disappear, the last active
  player would be the one that was playing before it).

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