Dell XPS M1330 – Make Multimedia Keys To Work With iTunes
I just now installed iTunes 64-Bit on my vista and noticed that the multimedia keys only work when the itunes main window is in focus, which is very irritating.
After a little bit of googling I found out this post and his solution works. This is what you have to do to fix this issue.
Download this plugin: (I uploaded the plugin to my site, just in case if the author removes it)
Copy the file to iTunes Plug-ins folder
For XP Users: “C:\Program Files\iTunes\Plug-ins”
Vista Users: “C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins”
In each case, you have to create this folder if it doesn’t already exist.
Now restart iTunes and your multimedia key should work.
Thanks to the original author
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ganja
16 Jan 09 at 5:53 pm
Thank you very much for this solution,
I was looking for this plugin for a while
Finally playing games and listening music without alt-tab!
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Cornholio
19 Feb 09 at 10:54 am
God bless you!
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julio
28 Feb 09 at 6:15 pm
Thank you much! Worked great to fix multimedia keys on Vista 64 bit on my Gateway P-7811FX!!
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Adam
13 Mar 09 at 8:17 pm
thank you for this nice plugin. it works realy nice. thank you very much
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roman
16 Mar 09 at 3:30 pm
just throwing this one in – SkiniTunes (www.skinitunes.com) it’s got some hotkeys and a few more options.
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miked
21 Apr 09 at 3:49 am
Thanks a lot!! It worked perfectly in my studio 1535.
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Daniella
25 May 09 at 6:10 pm
Works great for Vista 32 bit
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Marcus
9 Jun 09 at 12:53 pm
Thank you for this info.
I just installed Windows 7 RC 64-bit on my desktop and lost my media keys functionality when iTunes was minimized.
This solved it =)
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Ricardo
10 Jun 09 at 5:14 am
glad it helped
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Zuhaib
13 Jun 09 at 4:08 pm
Absolutely it helped! spent waaay too long searching for a solution involving remapping the keyboard, installing third-party programs, etc. but THIS did the trick with ZERO problems. Great find, thanks a lot for posting!
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Phil
13 Jun 09 at 4:37 pm
Whoa! Thanks a lot! I just installed on my inspiron 1318 and works fine! I’m on MS Windows 7 RC x32 and iTunes 8.2! You’re great!
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Jose Gamaliel Che
29 Jun 09 at 5:40 pm
Thank you very much God bless you
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bereket
19 Jul 09 at 4:27 am
Hey, cheers for linking to my article, just thought i’d let you know the instructions have been updated, so if you wanna sneakily copy and paste again, (which is fine – of course) it might be an idea to get the latest!
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Everything iTuens
2 Aug 09 at 8:26 pm
thx man…exactly what I needed
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Quip13
12 Sep 09 at 9:03 pm
Thanks man! It works!
Its pretty useful now, when it works with iTunes!
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Kevin
14 Sep 09 at 11:50 am
works on m1730 too, cheers cuzn
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robbiexps
12 Oct 09 at 7:12 am
Fantastic, works fine on my dell studio 1555. Great job… the same pluggin by an other lad didn’t work
this is PERFECT 
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DaniHappyLAD
17 Oct 09 at 5:40 am
Excellent!! Worked great on Sony Vaio with windows 7!!!!
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Robbie
4 Nov 09 at 7:50 pm
Worked on Dell Inspiron 1420 with Windows 7 64 bit! Thank you!
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Alexis
27 Dec 09 at 5:16 pm
Works with a Dell Studio XPS 16 and Vostro 1500.
I wonder if you can get this to work with other media apps (songbird, winamp, etc.)
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Oxy
1 Jan 10 at 8:54 am
Wokrs great with my studio xps 16 and vostro 1500. I wonder how you can get it working with winamp, songbird, etc.
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Oxy
1 Jan 10 at 8:56 am
oops sorry double post
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Oxy
1 Jan 10 at 8:56 am
Awesome! Worked with Windows 7 x64 on my Studio XPS 16.
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max morgan
3 Jan 10 at 5:38 pm
Solved an age-old problem!
Although with mine there’s a short delay between each media key being pressed and the appropriate action being taken, it still beats alt-tabbing all the time!
Many thanks!
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Canti
18 Jan 10 at 7:00 pm
This is great, thanks.
Working with Win7 Pro x64 on my XPS M1530
even the remote control now works.
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Mightysi
28 Jan 10 at 8:16 am
Awesome! I’ve been wondering why it didn’t work for awhile.
Work on my inspiron 1520 running win7 pro x64.
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Bob
28 Jan 10 at 8:36 pm
Fantastic! Simple and quick, thanks!
(Studio XPS 16, Windows 7 x64)
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Ben
5 Feb 10 at 12:12 pm
This works with the latest iTunes on Windows 7 64 bit on a Acer with the multimedia keyboard!
Thx!
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Missing2552
10 Feb 10 at 12:20 am
Thanks for this post. Plugin works great! Using Windows 7 32-bit on a HP laptop. Why iTunes didn’t include this is beyond me.
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Kyle
15 Feb 10 at 4:02 pm
I have Windows 7 and do not have the folder AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins”
Once I enter the username folder, all I have is My Pictures, My Music, My Downloads, blablabla.
What do I do?
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Nick Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
And I did search my cpmputer for the AppData folder, no luck
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Nick
17 Feb 10 at 6:57 pm
Hey Nick. To find the app data folder, you need to show the hidden files.
here’s how:
Computer–> Users –> Nick (or whatever its called)
From here, press Alt. and click tools. Then click folder options. Go to the View tab and from there find the option that says view hidden files or something like that. Make sure show hidden folders is selected.
Hope this helps!
Tim
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PelicanEatsCat Reply:
February 24th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
OMG! thank you so much that tip! One thing I was ticked at with Vista and 7 is them getting rid of the menus from WinExplorer. So glad to have them back now!
And I have the hotkeys finally working!
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Tim
22 Feb 10 at 4:53 am
Thank you. This solution works great. Was running it on my Vista and 7RC machines 32 bit machines. Just upgraded to full version of 7 64 bit and 64 bit itunes, still works wonderfully.
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Zach
26 Feb 10 at 6:51 pm
Perfect
windows 7 64 bit profession
logitech g11 keyboard
all keys work nicely
foranyone with problems just create a folder called “Plug-ins” in the main itunes folder and copy in the mmkeys.dll
voila sortedo
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Mental Stevo
27 Feb 10 at 12:29 pm
worked with my windows 7 premium home, Dell studio 14z
at first i had trouble finding the right itunes folder.. but once i did a search for it, i found it and created the plug-in folder as instructed and it worked like a charm!
thank you so much for your instructions.
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hs
7 Mar 10 at 5:34 pm
Thank you so much for having this article available (and keeping a copy of the DLL for making multimedia keys work available on your site). This worked a treat with my Logitech G11 keyboard, iTunes 9.1 and Windows 7 Enterprise.
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7 Apr 10 at 10:09 pm
Nice! This also works on my new Dell Studio 1588 (Mainly known as Studio 15) with Windows 7 Home Premium. It was a real pain without this. Thanks
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Brannson
13 Apr 10 at 11:08 pm
Thanks! It fixed this on my Dell Inspiron e1705 running Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) and iTunes 9.0.2!
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Katsuki Lennox
25 Apr 10 at 10:16 am
This drove me nuts for like a year. Fixed my Dell Vostro 1700 running Vista Business 32. YEEEEEEEEEUUUHHHHHH
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Dixie Normus
14 May 10 at 2:44 am
hey for those with windows 7 this works like a charm to. thanks again
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kyle
25 May 10 at 6:59 pm
YES!! Just found another post on how I could make my function keys the defaults for the first six, but my multimedia keys the default for the last 6. Now I can finally listen to music with ease on my dell studio 1558. I can’t thank you enough.
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Thanks A Billion
5 Jun 10 at 12:14 am
THANKS!!!
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oli
24 Jun 10 at 7:58 am
Thanks!!!
Works with my hp pavilion dv8 !
I can breathe again lol
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Thanks
17 Jul 10 at 12:45 am
Works for Toshiba Satellite’s
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haversxcore
10 Aug 10 at 9:22 pm
Thanks bud, it works for alienware m11x too incase anyones wondering
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ThanksBro
12 Sep 10 at 7:22 am
Great post man, i was looking for it for a long time
worked on my inspiron 1525 with Windows 7 – 32bit with itunes 10 perfectly!
thanks!
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Gokz
29 Sep 10 at 4:19 pm
Thank you! Thank you!
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Max
4 Oct 10 at 12:05 am
Thanks a lot!, It even works with Dell Inspiron 14R and Windows 7.
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Anand
14 Nov 10 at 12:16 pm
Works great… spot on!!!
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Connal
2 Dec 10 at 2:01 pm
Great fix thanks
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Anonymous
4 Jan 11 at 11:10 pm
it worked like a charm
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Michele
15 Jan 11 at 11:21 am
thank you! works like a beast.
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Rob
16 Feb 11 at 11:35 am
Does exactly what it’s supposed to. THANK YOU!
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Tamara
8 Mar 11 at 5:28 pm
This also works on Inspiron 15R running windows 7 ultimate 64
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Dean
12 Apr 11 at 8:26 am
Worked a treat on my toshiba Saellite
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disco man
2 May 11 at 9:39 am
So nice to have clever peeps like you in this world – thank you
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Martin
8 Jun 11 at 4:03 pm
Just did this on my Dell XPS L502x (2011) and works perfectly on the newest version of iTunes. Maybe a few years old but still works fine, thank you!
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Callum
14 Jul 11 at 8:23 am
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Almo
29 Jul 11 at 2:48 pm
Unfortunately it doesn’t seems to work anymore since itune 10.4.1.10
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Papa Smurf
3 Sep 11 at 2:46 pm