Common actions like Play, volume high, volume low, next, previous, mute, and pause require different shortcut keys on each media player. Wouldn’t it be great if we could define a common set of shortcut keys, that would work for almost all media players on your computer? If so, then you will definitely find this post useful. Now that simplifies things! MPH – Media Player Hotkey I have found an application called MPH or Media Player Hotkeys that allows you to define custom shortcut keys or Hotkeys that can be used to control various media players on your computer. Media Player Hotkeys is a portable and free Windows application that requires no installation. Once you run it, you will see the following window with four tabs namely You download a ZIP file, extract it in a folder and run the executable file.

Hotkeys: This is the key section that does the trick. On the right section, you can see a drop-down list and three buttons towards its bottom.

All you have to do is choose an action from the list be it play, pause, next, previous, and so on, and then click “Add HotKey” button. Choose an appropriate key by checking checkboxes/radio buttons and list items. That’s it you can now use the shortcut key on all media players. Likewise, you can assign hotkeys for different actions available under the drop-down list and use them irrespective of the media player in use currently. Players: This is the section that tells you about the software support for different players. Note that MPH doesn’t provide full support to some of the older media players.

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