Why doesn WMP7 or later support the Space bar for Play/Pause?
Get WMP11 – if the active focus is set to the pertinent playlist, pressing spacebar will then play/pause. Beyond that: If you open up WMP6 (mplayer2), where space bar *did* act as a pause button everywhere, you’ll note that you can’t use the TAB button to move between any UI elements. Note that in WMP7 and onwards, there’s all sorts of fun stuff to tab to. The “problem” is that for accessibility reasons (which is required), the SPACE button is used to activate a TABbed to item. So … the Space bar in WMP7 and later is remapped (and thus cannot be reused for Play/Pause), and our mouseless/sightless friends are probably ecstatic that the space bar does the right thing for them. Note that in WMP11 if you are in the library, if the focus is set to an item, pressing Space will toggle Play/Pause. You would thus want to either acquire a multimedia keyboard (which has that handy Play/Pause button) or move on… Rumor has it that there was at one point an external application called “WMP Space
Get WMP11 – if the active focus is set to the pertient playlist, pressing spacebar will then play/pause. Beyond that: If you open up WMP6 (mplayer2), where space bar *did* act as a pause button everywhere, you’ll note that you can’t use the TAB button to move between any UI elements. Note that in WMP7 and onwards, there’s all sorts of fun stuff to tab to. The “problem” is that for accessibility reasons (which is required), the SPACE button is used to activate a TABbed to item. So … the Space bar in WMP7 and later is remapped (and thus cannot be reused for Play/Pause), and our mouseless/sightless friends are probably ecstatic that the space bar does the right thing for them. Note that in WMP11 if you are in the library, if the focus is set to an item, pressing Space will toggle Play/Pause. You would thus want to either acquire a multimedia keyboard (which has that handy Play/Pause button) or move on… Rumor has it that there was at one point an external application called “WMP SpaceB
