Media buttons not working

[koloz193]

Currently the media buttons (play/pause/prev/next) don't seem to work in controlling music playback. Would love to be able to control the music when in another desktop window.

[piazzatron]

@zkolodny, are you referring to the media buttons on your keyboard?

[koloz193]

@piazzatron yea, so maybe its different but im on the macbook pro with a touchbar and the controls don't seem to be tracking

[kerkkoh]

I just tested this on Windows 10, with media keys, on both Chrome 87.0.4280.66 (64 bit) & Firefox 83.0 (64-bit). "Pause" and "Play" seem to be working just fine (I believe these are working by default for all audio from the browser), but I can confirm that both "Previous" and "Next" are not working.

I believe you could achieve the expected functionality with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSession/setActionHandler (not excellent browser support) or simply listening for the keys 176 (next) & 177 (previous) if the browser doesn't support the MediaSession actions.

[sliptype]

Closing, see https://github.com/AudiusProject/audius-client/pull/161