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Comment by k-mcgrady | Hacker News Reader

I hope they start to shift focus back. I don't know why anyone would use the website when there is a desktop app available that responds to media controls on the keyboard. I started using Rdio and never use the website. Spotify's site is definitely better than the dekstop client but I don't see why anyone wants it on the web.

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I didn't think anyone used those keys. My current keyboard doesn't even have them. There's no technical reason a web app couldn't support it, but I don't know how standard the scancodes are.

There's no technical reason a web app couldn't support it

There is- the media keys work no matter what application you're currently focused on. A webapp couldn't do that, unless Chrome extensions allow you to do something weird.

And a web version is far more convenient than a desktop one- you can just load it up anywhere. Spotify's desktop app has slowly got slower and more resource-hungry.

>> "And a web version is far more convenient than a desktop one- you can just load it up anywhere"

I just use the mobile app when I am away from my own computer.

I have a laptop and I use the multimedia keys.

Spotify has always responded to my media keys in a buggy fashion. Sometimes I have to press play/pause twice to get a response. Almost every time I pause with the keyboard, it resumes playing by itself about 5 minutes later--highly annoying.

I just realized my media key for "skip to next" was double registered by Spotify, so it would always skip the next song and move to the third. It took a few truncated albums to figure that out...

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