Fn + F5 / F6 / F7 (previous song, pause, next song) buttons have stopped working

[krevs]

Checklist:

• I have checked that there are no issues with similar or the same content

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• I have checked the FAQ (https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/wiki/FAQ) and the answer I am looking for is not there

• I have double checked and can reproduce the issue

OS: Windows

GPMDP Version: 4.7.1

Issue Descriptions: Fn + F5 / F6 / F7 (previous song, pause, next song) buttons have stopped working

Steps to Reproduce:

[cruzzer]

I'm seeing a similar issue on Windows and MacOS, where the media keys no longer work.

[xc-racer]

Similar issue as of this morning.
Play/Pause, Previous Track & Next Track keys on my Logitech K330 keyboard have stopped working.

OS - Windows 10 Home version 1909
GPMDP Version - 4.7.1

Edit:
Just did a bit more digging - media keys work fine in VLC and iTunes.
Also work fine for music.youtube.com when opened in Microsoft Edge.
But, they're not working for youtube.com or music.youtube.com when opened in Chrome.
So it looks like it's a Chrome issue?

[stick1300]

Yup, noticed this late yesterday. I've got the previous/next/pause commands mapped to custom keys (SHIFT+CTRL+I/O/P).

OS - Windows 10 Pro 19041.572
GPMDP version - 4.7.1

[ITguy13]

I can confirm it's happening as well. None of my hotkeys that have worked for years have stopped working. I used a hotkey detective to confirm that GPMDP is still the only app that they are mapped to. I also wiped out my AppData for GPMDP to reset it and no luck.

OS - Windows 10 Pro 20H2 (19042.804)
GPMDP - 4.7.1

[cfsmp3]

Actually it's not the keys. I've spent a few hours tracking this down (linux) trying to figure out if there was any program hijacking the keys, but no.

If you use the same options on the menu they don't work either. Strange, as "Show" for example works as expected, as well as the rest of the menu (quit, help, etc).

I suspect the problem is not with GPMDP but some change from Google breaking things.

[weaseldotro]

Pause, next and previous track keys have stopped working when using this player on my machine with Ubuntu 20.04.

[bruno-brant]

Same here - I configure personal hotkeys like CTRL+ALT+C and CTRL+ALT+V and they simply stopped working, out of the blue. Also my Logitech headset media keys.

I restarted Windows a couple of times to see if GPMDP was able to register the keys and tried to check if any other program was hijacking those keys but I concluded that this is something with GPMDP itself. I now certain of it because of this thread - people on different systems having similar trouble.

Is there a log that I could look at? Although, I'd say that GPMDP is oblivious to the issue, since usually it complains right after I set the key, and this isn't the case.

[bruno-brant]

Reflecting on the issue (without looking at the code) I expect that something changed on YT side of things because:

• It's started without any changes to GPMDP itself.
• It's affecting people on all kind of OSes.
• GPMDP isn't complaining when registering keys, it's just not doing what it's supposed to do once we actuate those keys.

UPDATE: Right clicking the taskbar icon and selecting Play/Pause doesn't work either, which confirms my assumptions.

[bruno-brant]

I think I tracked down the issue. The culprit is actually an upstream project, (ytmusic.js)[gmusic-utils/ytmusic.js]. GPMDP relies on it to control playback on YT music. I believe its selector might be failing o click the button. If I'm not mistaken, the selectors are here. For play/pause for instance, they are:

  playPause: '.left-controls .play-pause-button',

And while I can't attest to what was before, this selector returns null: Nope, it doesn't, I inverted the classes in the query below!

While using just .play-pause-button' might be enough:

(this last snippet will start/stop playing in YT Music)

[jostrander]

Appears to be related to track progress, investigating further.

The track progress element was recently changed to tp-yt-paper-slider. Unfortunately the underlying library is throwing an assertion error because it can't map the progress selector correctly, which ends the further results of the lib.

[FinchPowers]

In the meantime, it seems like the command keys are working in the browser version at https://music.youtube.com/. (I've tried with Firefox.)

[xc-racer]

@FinchPowers
My observation is that command keys are working in the browser version of music.youtube.com when opened in Microsoft Edge, but NOT in Chrome.

[HudsonAfonso]