Audacious with shortcuts in keyboard

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and audacious as audio player.I am using a lenovo G460 notebook.It has keys which can play music.They work with Amarok. But , I want to make them work with Audacious.Can anyone help me?

Solution

You just need go to File -> Preferences then navigate to Plugins -> General and check both Global Hotkey and Gnome Shortcuts.

Comments

[Baggers]

@Maduka You legend, thankyou

[Maduka Jayalath]

No problem, I'm glad I was able to help.

[FranBran]

is there a similar way to achieve the same for Amorok?

[Maduka Jayalath]

@DERIIIFranz You can find answer here: askubuntu.com/questions/56321/…

[pevik]

I wonder where are these plugins in Audacious 4 (which uses Qt 5).

[Maduka Jayalath]

@pevik I think you need to install plugins separately on version 4

[pevik]

@MadukaJayalath that plugin was packaged (in Debian package) for version 3. I guess it's not compatible with version 4, otherwise it'd be packaged.

[Maduka Jayalath]

@pevik Have a look on their download page, they said they have separated it for two, audacious-media-player.org/download

[pevik]

@MadukaJayalath yes, there are 2 files to download, but that's not the problem. Looking into git repository, hotkey plugin has not been ported to QT (ported plugins have -qt suffix). Debian uses still GTK port for 4.0, therefore there is hotkey.so plugin in audacious-plugins package. But openSUSE already builds QT thus plugin is not available.

[pevik]

Ah, there is already ongoing progress :) github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/pull/86

[pevik]

FYI plugin got merged into master: github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/commit/…

[pevik]

Compiled and loaded manually. Works perfectly, it even remember my settings from GTK.