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Brass Contributor

Dec 02, 2020

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Media Keys and Teams notifications

If I use keyboard media keys to pause music when I receive a call in teams, the notification sound doesn't seem to get dismissed when I answer the call. So, when I later press play, it also resumes p...

ChrisHoardMVP
Dec 28, 2020
Hi graemec5

Known issue, as raised here on uservoice

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39956326-media-keys-affecting-teams-web-app

If you go to that uservoice, a few comments down you should see a solution to this: go to avatar > settings > permissions > turn off midi device. People have reported that it has solved it for them

Hope this resolves and answers your question

Best, Chris

Copper Contributor

Oct 31, 2022

Has anyone heard of a solution to this that still works? It seems to suddenly have gotten worse on my system and it completely ignores the "-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling" flag. I have to restart Teams every time I get a call for my media keys to work.

I am so sick of the Teams devs spending all their time adding new features and none fixing the myriad of bugs this program has. We can't get rid of this program fast enough for me.

TheParadoX1984
Copper Contributor
Nov 01, 2022
Same Problem here. It is really annoying.
- dawust
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 02, 2022
  The command line parameters are no longer passed to the Chromium instance of Electron. I'm not sure if it's a bug of Teams or Electron, but I have my guess 😉
  
  But you can still disable HardwareMediaKeyHandling by some advanced methods. Take a hex editor and search for HardwareMediaKeyHandling in teams.exe.
  You'll find something like:
  
  4D 65 64 69 61 4B 65 79 48 61 6E 64 6C 69 6E 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 C7 09 47 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  
  Replace the last instance of 01 with 00 which should disable HardwareMediaKeyHandling again
  
  4D 65 64 69 61 4B 65 79 48 61 6E 64 6C 69 6E 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 C7 09 47 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  
  This will most likely violate the end-user license agreement and these changes will also most likely be reverted by any Teams update. But if you came this far, you should be able to find a way to patch the file automatically after every Teams update.
  Well, that's what we are left with when Teams can't get basic features right in 2022.
  - MrDak
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 08, 2022
    dawust Hey, thank you very much for this tip. Seems to work fine.
    
    BTW just use notepad++ with HEX-Editor Plugin to edit it.

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