Prevent media keys volume control affecting system volume

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I've just purchased a DasKeyboard 4, and I'd like to have the volume controls only affect my media player (Winamp), but not the system volume. (Purely for convenience reasons - I want to be able to easily alter/mute my music without also muting all other audio sources)

I found some info in related questions regarding changing the default programs for a given file association (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\), but I'm not sure what key names/values I would need to create to make Windows ignore the event altogether.

I also have a suspicion that if I manage to make Windows ignore the appropriate WM_APPCOMMAND events in this way, they'll never be propagated to Winamp anyway.

The events in question are:

  • APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_DOWN (9)
  • APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_UP (10)

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

Twicetimes

Posted 2014-09-08T22:42:14.097

Reputation: 113

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