Dell Inspiron media buttons Winamp plugin « Personal blog of Seph Soliman

Dell Inspiron media buttons Winamp plugin

media buttons on inspiron 8600

Description

Plugin intended for use in Winamp 2/5 on many Dell laptops to make use of the built-in media buttons.

The buttons are by default only functional in Windows Media Player.

A similar plugin was already created by WhitSoft but it was intended for Inspiron 8000 and 8100.

I altered the source-code to work for Inspiron 8600, but it turned out to work for other models (list shown below)

Known supported Dell models:

Inspiron 1520
Inspiron 1720
Inspiron 6000
Inspiron 6400
Inspiron 8500
Inspiron 8600
Inspiron 9100
Inspiron 9200
Inspiron 9300
Inspiron 9400
Inspiron E1505
Inspiron E1705
Inspiron 630m
Inspiron 640m
XPS Gen 1
XPS Gen 2
XPS Gen M170
XPS Gen M140
XPS Gen M1210
XPS Gen M1710
XPS Gen M1730
Studio XPS series
Precision M90
Vostro 1500, 1510, 1700, XPS M 1330

Might also work for:

HP DV100, DV6000, Dv6245US, DV9000 and ZD8000 series
ASUS A7JC
Zepto Znote 6615WD

If you find it works for other models - please notify me.

Download

Inspiron multi-series compatible:

Inspiron 8000, 8100, 8200 compatible:

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Michael
March 14th, 2008 - 14:43

Great! Now I can finally use the other 4 media buttons on my 9300 laptop.

That saves me from extending my arm, reaching out for my mouse, opening winamp, pointing the pointer to the desired button, and click!

many many thanks
c
March 22nd, 2008 - 11:01

Great simple Plugin for Winamp. Just copy in Plugins directory of Winamp and voila!

Good Job Mr. Soliman
Tammy
March 26th, 2008 - 22:43

Works on Vostro 1500 too. Thanks!
Anonymous
April 17th, 2008 - 20:29

works for dell precision m6300
M1730
April 24th, 2008 - 03:30

Works for M1730 with latest winamp =]

cheers mate
Andriulis
April 18th, 2008 - 07:13

Also works in Compal HEL80 barebone
Vostro 1500
May 4th, 2008 - 16:28

Works great!, but sadly the buttons dont work when u work with different programs. well some of them, but thats a minor problem great work!!! Dont like to use media player…so thanks a bunch for the awesome work.
damnshah
May 8th, 2008 - 21:24

works well with xps m1210, thank you very much
Constant
April 18th, 2008 - 21:30

Great dll. Made my Multi Media life heaven…
Zorr
April 26th, 2008 - 18:34

Works well with XPS 1530
Thanks again
Anonymous
June 25th, 2008 - 09:57

Microsoft Wired Keyboard 500, model RT2300, "Inspiron multi-series
compatible" plugin.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4lhjwv

Works nicely, except for volume controls, but it's better than gen_hotkeys.dll, which doesn't work at all .
Thank you.
Anonymous
July 2nd, 2008 - 09:46

It worked! I cannot believe it worked! Thank you so much!
To those wondering, just unzip all files from both "Download dll" and "Download source" related to your respective Inspiron version into C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
This works like a charm!
stone
July 8th, 2008 - 14:35

it works great on an hp dv6000 too!!!!! thank you sooooo much!
David
July 9th, 2008 - 21:08

You can add Dell Inspiron 1525 to your list.
I was already starting to fear I might have to resort to using windows media player, but your sweet dll has delivered me from such evil.

Thanks a lot.
Ragukiran
July 26th, 2008 - 20:01

thx a million
Serhiy
August 7th, 2008 - 16:35

They do work on my XPS m140 and Winamp 5.4.

Thanks a lot! ))
Anonymous
August 6th, 2008 - 21:25

Thank you very much
Chris H
August 11th, 2008 - 21:08

damn sweet, working as expected on the Vostro 1700. thanks a lot!
Vostro1510
July 27th, 2008 - 04:22

You can add the Dell Vostro 1510 notebook becauses it works perfect on this laptop too.
Linko
August 13th, 2008 - 09:11

This is great!
Thanks with my Dell XPS M1330!
Henk
August 16th, 2008 - 19:32

After I tried the plugin for my Inspiron 1525, I also tried it on my PC with a Sweex KB050US keyboard (a keyboard with media buttons which operate with WMP, not with Winamp) and it works great!!! I cannot say whether this plugin will work with every keyboard with media buttons for WMP, but is at least worth to try! Many thanks!!!
Peter
August 16th, 2008 - 14:43

Hi. I'm using a Dell laptop 1720 and Winamp 5.4 and it works just how I like it. Interestingly, the buttons only control Winamp from now on, yeah so other media players even in the foreground do not respond. Okay. I suppose you wrote the code that way. I like it. Thanks.
Arnas
August 27th, 2008 - 22:31

hey dude, i tried your winamp pkugin on ma inspiron 1520 and it worked! big thanks to you my friend, it helps me out alot. and im sure it would work on other dells like 1525 because its almost the same.
Fabio
September 12th, 2008 - 04:12

Perfect!

Thank you!
(dell inspiron 1525)
Anonymous
September 17th, 2008 - 22:37

works fine on my New Precision M6300
jordanpara
September 19th, 2008 - 08:56

After getting sick of having to open winamp to change songs, i found this driver and it works perfect. Thank you so much!!!

BTW i'm using Dell Inspiron 1520
Wojtek
September 19th, 2008 - 14:02

Wow, this is great. Work with my Quick Lunch buttons and Remote. I found this accidenttly while I've been searching some program to control winamp. Greatings from Poland
Anonymous
September 24th, 2008 - 10:04

didnt think it would work but does
Anonymous
September 28th, 2008 - 19:37

work's just fine on my dell inspiron 1520, thx
george
September 28th, 2008 - 19:38

work's just fine on my dell inspiron 1520, thx. You just have to copy/paste the driver on c:/program files/winamp/plugin .
jb
September 30th, 2008 - 01:15

You can add the Inspiron 13 to the list. Works like a charm. Thanks!!
Anonymous
October 2nd, 2008 - 03:49

YES.
Theres ia a way to activate the Dell Media buttons to work with Winamp. In preferences –> Global Hotkeys. Enable the first option and they shoudl actomatically work or you could configure them.
Winamp that has this option downloaded 1-oct-2008
Anonymous
December 29th, 2008 - 05:03

Hi.
I tried your Winamp plugin on my Inspiron 1420 and it worked!
Thanks.
Enzo
December 24th, 2008 - 22:09

Works great! Media buttons are useful again! (I don't like WM)
Thanks!
Anonymous
December 27th, 2008 - 08:24

thanks a million, worked perfectly on dell M90
Alex
November 10th, 2008 - 07:21

Thanks a ton
jake
December 31st, 2008 - 17:41

Thank you!
Matt
October 24th, 2008 - 01:20

I tried the suggestion as listed previously that winamp supports the buttons without any update. I found that it almost does. The buttons work, but will ignore buttons if pressed before aprox 5 – 10 seconds after previous (sometimes not even then)… The same issues happened with the Whitsoft original plugin.
This version works perfectly…. thanks.
djdice
January 29th, 2009 - 09:16

yayyyyyyyy it works thx so much . can any1 help me to fix the volume buttons they still dont work plzzzzzzzzz help thx
Dave123
March 10th, 2009 - 00:34

Works on Dell inspiron 1525. Thanx a lot! great work by the way
Diana
March 27th, 2009 - 14:39

Thanks! it works for Inspiron 1525n too. Great plugin.
Tony Man
April 2nd, 2009 - 20:48

Star.. works on Dell M1530.. great solution.

Winamp with control from XPS media buttons via your DLL is the way forward
Mathieu
May 14th, 2009 - 15:11

Savior!!!! Thanks!
Marlz
May 29th, 2009 - 20:01

Thanks so much! Works on the Dell Inspiron 13
Just a heads up, it won't work with other WMP when Winamp is open. But I like it that way.
Adrian
August 4th, 2009 - 16:26

Nice, thx.

Works on brand new XPS13
Tatianna
November 14th, 2009 - 15:20

Awesome! It works perfectly on the Studio XPS 16. Even when winamp is not selected. Just what I was looking for. Thanks a million, you rock!
Dennis
November 23rd, 2009 - 23:22

Exactly what I was looking for. Can also confirm this works with Studio XPS 16 and the latest version of Winamp!
Tiago
November 27th, 2009 - 21:20

Great work!
Working perfectly on 1525.
Thanks a lot!
N1am
November 30th, 2009 - 18:35

Works on Dell Studio XPS 1640. Thank you