Disable Media Volume Control pop-up when playing discord media
Currently, a media volume control window pops up when you change your system volume and you're playing some kind of media on discord, say an mp3 or an embedded youtube video for example.For everyone who uses their mouse keys for quick and easy volume control has now a huge window blocking the screen making it able to pause a video if you desire to do so. This is a relatively new issue and hasn't been around for more than a month, I think.
Google Chrome has an option to disable this behaviour here: chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling while there is none for discord and its media handling.
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It's disappointing that this seems to be the only relevant search result for how to remove this. It seems to be a new "feature" but I don't see a way to turn it off.
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It's super annoying. I hate having it cover whatever I'm working on. Hoping discord will add a disable option for it.
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This is a huge pain in the ass. Logging on for the first time on the discord website just to chip in here. If you forget you're watching a video or pause a second before the end or something it will continuously pop up until you finish the video. That's really annoying if there's been 100 messages since then... I find myself just not using discord lately because of it, rather just talk to my mates in games.
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The Windows media bar is a disgusting fat blob that gets in the way of everything, it should never be added to any app and there should seriously be a way to prevent it appearing in the system settings.
In the meantime Discord should make an option to remove it from their app, it gets in the way of lots of things and is generally annoying.
To add on to this annoyance there's a bug where half of the time the media bar doesn't go away after the video/music has finished playing.
Please add an option to remove it.
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Whomever came up with this "feature" clearly doesn't actually use the program. Who the hell adds a screenblocking 'feature' in a chat service designed for gaming?!
What was the idea? "How to make sure people die more in videogames: Prevent them from seeing 10cm of their screen"? Yea, brilliant idea. Really, very smart!
Half the time even finishing the video doesn't make it go away. So you're stuck with this nonsense for hours unless you completely reboot Discord. How on earth did this make it through quality control?
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This is actually a huge issue for me because a recent windows update added an issue where this media bar can cause all the sound to go silent on your computer, even if it doesn't actually show up visually, if you're using a bluetooth device. I had the same problem on Spotify, and was able to fix it by turning off the media bar, but since the option doesn't exist on Discord, I just can't view any embedded videos on Discord anymore.
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This is the first time I ever sign in there. Like all others I find it very intruding, and I hope that there will soon be some option to desactivate it
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Figured this out. Discord is electron and it uses chromium (chrome). In Chrome there are flags and one of them is "Hardware Media Key Handling" and it can be accessed from chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling . So how to get that on Discord? Well for me discord starts with windows and for it its simple. So lets start with that.
Follow the steps.
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Open "Registry Editor"
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Navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
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Find Discord, Right click and choose "Modify"
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Add " -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling" to the end of "Value data"
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Click "Ok"and close Registry Editor
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Restart your PC and you are done.
Now if you use discord from a Shortcut on your desktop or from start menu its bit more complicated. So here is how to do that.
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Start by going to your Discord installation folder. For me it's "C:\Users\USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Local\Discord\app-0.0.306"
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Now right click "Discord.exe" and choose "Create Shortcut"
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Rename Shortcut to "DiscordFlags" (or something similar but you need to remember this later)
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Right click "DiscordFlags" and choose "Properties"
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Now in "Target" at the end add " -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling"
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Click "Ok"
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Now navigate to desktop or where ever your shortcut is (For start menu and Cortana search use the search it self to find discord and right click and choose "Open file location" and there is your shortcut to modify)
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Now that you have your preferred shortcut selected right click on it and choose "Properties"
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Now at the end of "Target" modify "Discord.exe" to "DiscordFlags.lnk"
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Click "Ok" and you are ready to use your shortcut (Remember to close and open Discord for it to work)
Hope this helps and I hope discord dev team can implement this as an standard feature on on-off setting inside of Discord settings.
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^^^ Worked perfectly, you are a godsend. I'd just like to specify when adding to the shortcut Target text be sure to put a space in between the shortcut and the flags or else it won't work.
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Thank you very much JÄTTI, your solution worked perfectly.
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I actually logged in with two factor authentication and everything just to say thanks.
So thanks.
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Really hope this just gets fixed.
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I am now using a program called Hide Windows OSD, if anyone else wants to try it. This should be fixed, but here we are.
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For taskbar/desktop shortcuts (which point to update.exe, not discord.exe), add the following line to the target field:
--process-start-args "-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling"
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I have tried everything in this post but i can't get it to go away. I am at my witts end and this is so infuriating. Just give us a way to disable this through settings FFS !!!
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Still no way to disable this in the app, very disappointing. Even Spotify managed to put in a switch for this and they usually do everything to fuck the users.
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@Menon's solution worked for me and was really easy to add. To be 100% clear here are the steps:
1. Locate the discord shortcut you normally use. If that is through the start menu, right-click and "Open File Location" which should take you to the shortcode in the Start Menu\Programs folder.
2. Right-click the shortcut and go to Properties
3. Go to the Shortcut tab
4. In the "Target" box, paste this at the end (make sure there is a space between the target and this code):
--process-start-args "-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling"
5. Restart discord using your shortcut to open it.
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While this could work for Windows users, it is wildly inconvenient for Linux/macOS users to have to launch Discord from the terminal (for example on Linux: discord --process-start-args "-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling") and have a terminal window open just for Discord. And while yes, changing the launcher properties inside of your application menu is an option, some other users might not have that as an option. And for macOS users, welp, sorry but it seems like you're left behind...
So, a toggle inside of the app would be wildly more convenient indeed, unless Electron is do big dumb and doesn't allow changes like that on-the-fly (wait, if that's the case then why wouldnt it just say "hey dummy you'll need to restart the app")-1 -
Why is this still not under Windows Settings? every update i think they grew a brain and would add it. A year later and its still a problem...
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JÄTTI maaan, thank you so muuuch. This has been bothering me for a good while now, but your solution was damn amazing. Thanks again bro!
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If you have your discord icon pinned to your taskbar, it may be a different shortcut than the one used in the rest of the start menu, so to use the chromium flags workaround, you may want to unpin and repin the icon after updating the main menu shortcut.
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The solution worked perfectly for a while, but all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore. Has this happened to anyone else? That annoying thing is back again.
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Yes I try everything doesn't work anymore. Now I never look a vidéo or whatever on discord and always open it in firefox
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