Groove Music Keyboard Shortcuts
I'm using Groove, the Windows 10 music player. It's good, I don't want to download another. I use Spotify but for my local music, I use Groove.
I was wondering if:
- It can be minimized to tray
- I could control it using the keyboard, such as AutoHotKey associations or something, to play, pause, etc.
- Program name: Microsoft Groove (Media player) Microsoft Groove is a new Music application for Windows 10. It plays your music collection and allows to create your own playlists. It has paid Groove Music Pass subscription service which gives you access to the a large music catalog.
- If you've taken a look at the official Google Music launch and think it may be your new music player of choice, you'll probably be spending a lot of time with it. Which means you'll want to get to.
For those of you who have been wanting to know the list of keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10, here it is. I've tested these shortcuts, including accessing Cortana, moving from virtual desktop to.
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It is quite likely you can implement both of those features in AutoHotkey.
Groove Music Keyboard Shortcuts
For minimize-to-tray you could make a tray icon that effectively shows/hides the Groove window (which would make it look like Groove got minimized to the tray). See WinShow and WinHide commands.
For controlling via keyboard you could likely use ControlSend commands to directly send keystrokes to Groove to control playback, even if it isn't visible or active. There is also a WinAmp example in the AutoHotkey help files that utilized window messages if I recall correctly (see help for SendMessage--whether Groove uses that type of interface I have no idea)
Maybe I will look at it at it on a Win10 machine sometimes... haven't used it myself but I'm pretty sure you could get it to do something like that.
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