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Play/Pause media key shortcut not working

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One Hit Wonder

The play/pause key from the keyboard is not working.
Previous/next song does work.


Currently, the main issue is that there is no way to pause/resume a song when Deezer is in the background.
And those media shortcuts have been on keyboards since forever, why are they not correctly supported ?

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Yula
Deezer Staff
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  • Yula
  • Deezer Staff
  • 3204 replies
  • March 13, 2023

Hello @neoraptor123, I can’t reproduce this on my dell laptop, 

what pc are you using? 

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Roadie

BUMP!
I have this issue as well. It’s essential for me to use media buttons when Deezer is in background.

Or I have to go back to green app.

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Roadie
silentwimble wrote:

BUMP!
I have this issue as well. It’s essential for me to use media buttons when Deezer is in background.

Or I have to go back to green app.

OH DAMN!
I found the reason. When green app is on background, it blocks Deezer to get multimedia button signals.
Exit any other multimedia apps or browser windows that has multimedia (youtube etc.)

Jaime.Deezer
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Roadie
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  • Roadie
  • 1 reply
  • October 7, 2025

I’m using MacOS 15.7 and have a similar problem. The media keys don’t seem to be wired up in the mac app so nothing runs. I’ve uninstalled the green app.

I’ve had to create a script mapped to play/pause that switches focus to Deezer, triggers the “space” keyboard shortcut to toggle play/pause and then switches focus back to what I was doing.

It’s quite distracting,

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