Playing (and more importantly controlling) music in game?

[TrickyNinja]

Hey all, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to play and control music in game. I can of course just play winamp but I'd like to be able to control the music without alt tabbing if possible.

I've heard of HLSS but as far as I know that plays music to other people which is not what I want, also some servers will ban you just for having it running.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Rellik]

I can of course just play winamp

I believe that winamp has a plugin that gives you a status-bar icon, and back-ground-application shortcut keys. in other words you would be able to hit (for example) ctrl-alt-c to pause music, etc., etc.

might want to do a search on the winamp webpage for plugins.

 

[jaxory]

Use Winamp and setup the global hotkeys, then just use those while you're in game.

 

[Jinsei Zetsumei]

my keybord has built in buttons for controlling windows media player, volume, next song, previouse song, pause, stop, so on and so on.

 

[Sykes]

Global hotkeys is what I used when I used winamp.

But for me, I do the same thing using iTunes. I just minimize it, and use a program called iTunesKeys to use ALT+~ to go to next track, ALT+1 to pause, CTRL+up/down to change volume, and things like that. Very helpful.

Just search for "Winamp global hotkeys" on Google. That should point you in the right direction!

 

[TrickyNinja]

Cool, thanks peeps.

 

[DrNecroNancy]

Ooh hey that's a great question, good post!
Good answers too, I wanna look into that! Very useful

 

[wasawiki.]

Nice thread, I'm going to install winamp