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I have a JBL E40BT Bluetooth headset. It comes with media controls on the left ear cup, a play/pause button, and a volume up and down (previous and next track is handled by three and two fast presses of the play button, respectively). The volume up and down work on a system level, allowing me to control Windows volume.
The play/pause button however, doesn't. VLC, Media Player, even Groove.
Now I've tested this thing with my Android phone, where it works, and on my Mac, where the play/pause button opens up iTunes.
But for some reason, it won't work on Windows. I've checked services, and Human Interface Device Access is up and running, so I'm not sure what else I need to do.
On a side note, both my keyboard and my mouse comes with a play/pause, and they only work when I've got VLC / WMP on AND in-focus.
zack_falcon
Posted 2016-01-23T14:00:04.067
Reputation: 903
did you find any solutions or workarounds? Or nothing worked? – Wizek – 2017-07-22T16:21:40.467
@Wizek, My Windows laptop has long since died, but the closest I got it to working was to, occasionally, get it to pause when I hit my headset's play / pause button (it won't play after that).
I did nothing to make that work, so I assume it has something to do with a Windows 10 update. – zack_falcon – 2017-07-24T07:25:06.213