Solved Apple music app Windows change keyboard command to pause and play back to original


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Hi on the Apple music app of Windows, to pause and play you now have to press ctrl+space when it was originally just pressing space on iTunes. I find this very frustrating. Even on the MacOS version of Apple music is just simply pressing space. Do you know how I can change this back to pressing spacebar.
 
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the attached exe will run in the tray. it will allow spacebar to play/pause inside apple music. it is made from an ahk script i made. if you want it to run at startup, make a shortcut to the exe and place the shortcut in Shell:Startup folder.

ahk code inside exe:
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#Persistent
#SingleInstance Force
SetTitleMatchMode, 2

GroupAdd, AppleMusic, ahk_exe AppleMusic.exe

#IfWinActive ahk_group AppleMusic
Space::
Send {Media_Play_Pause}
return
#IfWinActive
 

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@dacrone Wow thank you so much! I used powertoys for this but it didn't work, i have 1 question if i'm going to be using your .exe to open up Apple Music, does the app still get updated from the store?
 

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@dacrone Oh wait your right i would run the .exe in shell startup so every time i open apple music pause play will happen with space bar got it :)
 

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aaron106 said:
@dacrone Wow thank you so much! I used powertoys for this but it didn't work, i have 1 question if i'm going to be using your .exe to open up Apple Music, does the app still get updated from the store?
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the script exe i provided does not open Apple Music. it will run in the system tray (by your clock) and when you have Apple Music as the active window and playing audio, Spacebar will send Ctrl+Spacebar (so it is back to the mapping that you wanted). It does nothing if its open and Apple Music is not running.

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posted simultaneously. correct.
 

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@dacrone Awesome wow can't believe your helping me! I will respond soon to the other topic you replied too
 

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absolutely; no worries. sorry i missed these threads when they were posted.
 

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