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[CLIENT] [9.23] League client takes over the "play/pause" media key event, causing it to not work.

Jesus is Savior·11/21/2019, 2:20:55 AM·73 votes·12,152 views

How to reproduce: Step 1) Load up some music or a podcast Step 2) Open up League and log in Step 3) Open up any lobby (I tried both blind pick and ranked solo)

You will now no longer be able to use your keyboard's play/pause button to pause your music until you close League (fixes it 100% of the time) or leave the lobby (fixes it only a small percentage of the time - usually it will persist even after leaving a lobby). Your "next track" and "previous track" buttons will, however, still continue to work. This bug only affects play/pause.

Also, um.... Why? Why is League capturing system media key events AT ALL?

Also my entire client is muted, because I see no purpose to sounds outside of the actual game. Which makes this even more hilarious.

EDIT: November 23, 2019 - this bug still exists. No Riot response.

EDIT 2: I have a Rito response. They are fixing it. The ticket I sent was just um.... Not handled the greatest. So I was debating whether posting the actual unedited response would be a dick move or not.

EDIT 3: This bug still exists as of patch 9.24

35 Comments

IchigoDaifuku11/22/2019, 6:07:35 AM10 votes

Happens to me as well. Unable to play/pause Spotify whenever the LoL client is open. Just stops the music/background noise that client has.

ZacharieSnackrie11/21/2019, 4:53:57 AM7 votes

This is my first ever forum post. This is happening to me too and honestly I'm extremely not happy about it. This needs to be fixed, it's simple enough to not have to be a problem.

ash catchemaII12/19/2019, 2:18:32 PM6 votes

Not a bug. It's a "feature" to pause the League music and takes top priority over EVERYTHING else. A trick is to press a modifier key like Alt/Shift/Control and it will ignore League of Legends.

Stupid feature doesn't need to exist...

MeBuffULongTime11/30/2019, 4:59:27 PM6 votes

Having same issue, really bizarre and frustrating. Can we get a Rito response please?

Güney1/6/2020, 11:24:50 PM4 votes

Guys, I wrote a support Ticket and got an answer. Pls try it out, if you use Spotify. There are these DefaultApps on windows, you know when you open Microsoft Edge it wants you to set it to default. You need to get Spotify as your Default Music app on Windows. Just search for Default App on windows or whatever it is called and set Spotify as ur Default App. I couldnt do it, bec windows did not show me Spotify. There is another way for that, rightclick a mp3 and press on open with and then select Spotify, even there windows didnt show me Spotify ass App. If the app is not shown windows lets you to select the exe by yourself so do that, first you need to find the location. It is ProgrammFiles/WindowsApp, the Folder is hidden by windown. Just use the option to see hidden folders. Then you might not have acces to that folder. You can get the permission if ya follow this tutorial https://www.maketecheasier.com/access-windowsapps-folder-windows-10/ The second method worked for me, then locate down to the Folder named "SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.122.633.bla bla bla and then select the Spotify exe I guess. After that all mp3s turned from the white mp3 logo to the spotify Logo, so I assume it worked.

I dont have the Problem, i will let my Friend test it too. I dont know if another Music Player would work, you could try that if you dont use Spotify. If it didnt work let me know, so I can share the Information with the support.

You could also write a Ticket so they can help y´all directly. I am just sharin the Information given to me, I will also post a screenshot of the solution but it is in German. https://imgur.com/a/hRq9UFM

Hope I could atleats help a bit.

PS: They confirmed that the launcher is Chromium based

Cukulainn11/21/2019, 2:13:20 PM4 votes

i made a post about this yesterday but i guess it was taken down for some reason. and interesting note is that when you press the stop button the ambient noises in the league lobby go away altogether and there is no way to turn them back on. also my forward and back buttons dont work. the league client just hijacks the functionality of the media keys from my music player.

sädboy11/23/2019, 10:36:30 PM3 votes

I have the same problem, its very annoying. When I press the pause/play button it starts/stops the client ambient sound or the video in the client..

Gø Won11/23/2019, 6:00:23 AM3 votes

Happens to me too, I'm still able to go forward and backward between songs, but I'm unable to pause/play. The client takes over and just pauses/plays the ambient noise in the lobby.

Trist mid opop11/21/2019, 11:08:33 AM3 votes

What happens when u press the start/pause? Queue starts? The videos on the client starts?

Lots of Lol11/22/2019, 5:26:32 AM3 votes

Same problem here. Posting to show support of the bug.

roflbabe11/24/2019, 10:27:22 AM3 votes

Same happens here. Please fix it :(

Osteoporoosi9711/28/2019, 8:42:45 PM2 votes

Same problems here, disabling the client sound does not help

Chefmaks1/20/2020, 12:01:36 PM2 votes

Same Problem on 10.1. I can't use any workarounds listed here because 1. I use more then one music player (not only spotify) and 2. I still want Chrome to accept my media keys to be able to pause videos or stuff. So the only thing that works for me right now is to press alt + the media key I want to use. I really hope for a solution on riots behalf though, workarounds should never be needed to solve problems that are not caused by consumers.

Güney12/28/2019, 6:58:40 PM2 votes

Found a solution for Chrome users, it might also work in similar ways for other Browsers go to "chrome://flags/" find the option "Hardware Media Key Handling" and disable it. Restart the Browser or close it. And it should work now.

If you dont have Chrome try to see if you have a chromium based Browser, the LOL Client is Chromium based.

I hope I could help some people.

22462/16/2020, 7:55:17 PM1 votes

have the same problem, it wasn't like this in the older client. its really annoying

Ceins12/11/2019, 5:12:10 PM1 votes

Patch 9.24: This bug still persists and is starting to get annoying.

WillShield4Nudes12/11/2019, 6:44:13 PM1 votes

Having the same issue. I really hope it get resolved soon because I'm the type of person to leave my client open all the time, and having to constantly click on my music window to pause it it becoming inconvenient. I'm surprised it hasn't already been fixed...

EvolutionEpic1/8/2020, 7:59:27 AM1 votes

Really unimportant feature. Hopefully gets taken out. Just getting really annoying for me Darius

Nerdworld1/31/2020, 1:22:49 AM1 votes

Since this bug still persists (and the Chrome flags isn't working for me), i've made a small workaround:

Simply use AutoIt v3 and run the following script and let it run in background (needs to be started before starting the League Client). It blocks the Chrome extension from binding the media play button.

HotKeySet("{MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE}", "Nope") While True Sleep(1000) WEnd Func Nope() EndFunc

The Ritz2/1/2020, 11:05:11 PM1 votes

Hey guys if you hold down shift it bypasses the league client focus for media keys. I bound {shift + play/pause} to f12, You can bound it to any key

sinya yesta2/3/2020, 2:27:27 PM1 votes

well this bug still exists you are able to pause/play the music of the client anytime with a media button even without any other media open

FlexxReaper2/15/2020, 5:48:46 PM1 votes

This apparently still exists. I just had the problem, searched for it and found this... After I closed the League Client the keys suddenly worked again. I didn't realize that. It's strange, that this even exists in the first place