How do I get my Logitech media buttons to control Spotify

Question

I have a Logitech diNovo keyboard which includes media buttons for play/pause, stop, next, previous. I would like to let those buttons control Spotify. I've tried to add Spotify to the players.ini file as described here, but I still cannot control Spotify - focused or not. Spotify does not show up the "Select Media Player" dropdown box in the SetPoint application:

Does anyone have Spotify properly configured for Logitech/SetPoint?

I'm running Windows 7 and SetPoint 4.80.103

Answer 1

I know this is ages old now, so SetPoint is several versions on, but the instructions on this website seem to work, providing you also kill background windows media player processes.

The procedure to fix this is as follows:

1. Close Logitech SetPoint by right-clicking the icon in the system tray.
2. Open notepad as administrator (right click and Run as administrator).
3. In notepad, open the file "C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPointP\players.ini" (your folder may be named SetPoint instead of SetPointP on older versions or upgrades). (Hint: If you don't see the file, you must select "All Files" in the drop down that says "Text Documents)
4. At the end of the section [Players], add the following line: spotify=wac,spotify.exe,SpotifyMainWindow,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,0,1,Spotify
5. Save the file. (If this fails or the Save As dialog pops up, this is probably because you didn’t run notepad as admin. Since this is inside the Program Files directory, you need to be admin to edit.)
6. Kill any processes belonging to other media players (especially wmp)
7. Launch SetPoint again ("Mouse and Keyboard Settings" in the start menu or restart the system) and verify that the media keys now work better.