What command to play next song in media-player?

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In Windows, there are multiple ways of playing songs on your computer; spotify, Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, Winamp etc etc. If you own a keyboard with media-keys, you can sometimes skip a song or play/pause it by pressing a button on that keyboard. The keyboard will say to windows to skip a song that is currently being played WHATEVER media-player is being used.

How can I pause/skip the current song that is being played in Windows without needing to know the media-player?

Languages; C# or nodejs, it all depends on how this is possible.

Good one. Shouldn't really matter, but I prefer C# or nodejs (depends on the possible implementations). — guidsdo, Jul 27 '15 at 09:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Found the answer here: Simulate keyboard event if sender is not in focus and without knowing target window

Reference https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646275(v=vs.85).aspx

Bad alternative: https://superuser.com/questions/278951/my-keyboard-has-no-media-keys-can-i-control-media-without-them

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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What command to play next song in media-player?

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