Almost everyone now has a multimedia keyboard. But by default your keyboard’s multimedia keys let you control only Windows Media Player. But what if you use Winamp as your default media player and want to control Winamp using those multimedia keys ?
Winamp 5.5 now has a feature which lets you control Winamp’s playback even when Winamp is minimized to the system tray. To enable the feature:
- Open Winamp and go to Options —> Preferences.
- Then under General Preferences, go to Global Hotkeys.
- Tick the check-box which says “Enable default multimedia key support”
- Then click on “Close” on the bottom left end.
- You will now be able to control Winamp using the multimedia keys of your keyboard.
Now you can start enjoying Winamp even more. 
rambhai
25 Jan 08 at 1:08 am
can tell me a software which displays the music track of winamp on yahoo messenger??
Manas
1 Feb 08 at 2:24 pm
Hmm… Have you tried Hyper IM ?
ishayw
11 Aug 08 at 8:54 pm
Thanks!
FSiev
5 Apr 09 at 6:26 am
Thank you. Works perfectly
Anonymous
6 Aug 09 at 7:29 am
Been looking for this for a while. Thanks.
GrateFullWinampUser
25 Oct 09 at 10:43 pm
Thank you so much! This really helped me.
9dedos
3 Dec 09 at 6:00 am
thank you, very much
James
11 May 10 at 5:44 pm
Thanks OP, just ditched iTunes for winamp after i heard about the iPod support – was mortified when my keys didnt work straight away! but with the 3second fix i was actually amazed! thanks very much!
Marius
7 Jul 10 at 9:56 pm
Thanx mate – works like a charm.