Multimedia Keys in Itunes

Hello again!

Well it's not uncommon to see "fancy" keyboards out there anymore, with all their play/pause skip stop etc buttons. But what good are those buttons if you use Itunes, and you want to switch songs while doing something else? Lucky for you, someone made a fix for it!

This fix will work for both XP and Vista! Horray.

First off, follow this link and download mmKeys.dll. You will need to register, but that's OK because you can now post how grateful you are!

After you download the .dll and saved it to wherever you like, navigate to
C:\Program Files\Itunes. In here we will need to create a folder named "Plug-Ins" and then stick in the mmKeys.dll. We will end up with
C:\Program Files\Itunes\Plug-Ins\mmKeys.dll

Now restart Itunes if it was already running and your Multimedia keys should work, no matter what window you are in!

What's that you say? It's still not working? That's ok, sometimes an extra step will be needed. Go back to C:\Program Files\Itunes\Plug-Ins\mmKeys.dll and right-click>>>copy mmKeys.dll.

Before we get started we need to make sure you can see hidden folders. If you can already see hidden folders, then skip this step!

How to enable hidden files in Vista

Click the Vista Start icon in the bottom left of your computer (It is the blue button with the Windows logo on it). Now click on "Control Panel". If you are in "Classic View" it will open a window that looks like this.

I personally prefer the classic view. If you are not in Classic View, in the top left there will be a button that says, "Switch to Classic view" (Or something along those lines).

Now click on "Folder Options". This will open up the window on the left. Click on the "VIEW" tab
to open up the window on the right.

















Check "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and then click OK.

You can now see hidden files! Now back to setting up the Itunes keys.


Now head on over to
C:\Users\[Your username]\App Data\Local\Apple Computer\Itunes

In this folder we need to create a folder called "Itunes Plugin" if there is not already one there.

Now open up the Itunes Plugin folder and paste in mmKeys.dll.

Now restart Itunes and your multimedia keys should work perfectly! Let me know if you run into any problems.

Mr. Lemons