Media keys not working

[l0uismustdie]

I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on a MacBook Air 11-inch Early 2014 and my media keys have stopped working. Specifically these are the previous track, play, and next track buttons located on F7, F8 and F9 respectively. It was my belief that since I deleted the 'iTunesHelper' from my Login Items this might be causing it. So, I have placed this back in Login Items and upon a reboot this is still not working. In addition I have tried clearing my PRAM.

Anyone have any ideas what else I could try? Thanks.

 

[dyt1983]

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[l0uismustdie]

All other F keys function normally.

 

[dyt1983]

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[l0uismustdie]

No.

 

[copa]

perhaps running keynote? that can block them, too

 

[l0uismustdie]

Solved

Interesting. Thanks, copa. It turns out these buttons were only not functioning when Chrome was open. Upon further investigation I found out that the Google Play Music extension I just installed overloaded those keys. Removed those keybindings and all is well. Thanks.

 

[dcolon]

Solved

Interesting. Thanks, copa. It turns out these buttons were only not functioning when Chrome was open. Upon further investigation I found out that the Google Play Music extension I just installed overloaded those keys. Removed those keybindings and all is well. Thanks.

Thank you so much for your comment. I was dealing with the same exact problem and I recently installed the Google Play music extension. I disabled the extension and now my media keys work as expected. I will look into filing a bug with Google.