Hi, ive been using foobar2000 for quite a while and love it, however I just updated to 9.5.4 and am now having problems with my previous hotkey.

My keyboard has several media keys, all of which ive assigned as hotkeys in foobar in the past with no problems. Since ive updated to 9.5.4 my Previous key no longer functions correctly. Upon pressing the previous key, rather than going back one track, foobar treats it as a stop key. I have checked and it is in fact assigned to previous and not stop.

Can anyone help me fix this problem or is it a fix for the next version?

Tried the forum search?

Hitting Previous causing playback to stop
With Random order selected, Previous button is nonfunctional
Previous button no longer works
Can't use previous!
Previous button doesnt work
global hotkey for 'previous' does not work anymore

Ah thanks a ton. new to the forum and didnt reaize it has a search. Tried google but that was useless.

So apparently it was because of random... guess what i really want is shuffle tracks.

Curiously, my previous button works *fine* in random playback mode. (Well, it jumps to another random track, but this is actually behavior that makes sense in random mode.)

Not, mind you, that I am complaining. Though I am now a bit curious.

@DocBeard: Are you sure you are not confusing random with shuffle?

First thing I checked.

At first I assumed this to just be Columns UI functionality, but then I saw in one of the earlier posts about this issue that Columns UI was listed among the components. (The previous button behaves as expected when I have the Default UI enabled, though, which leads me to believe that it's *something* to do with Columns UI).

Okay, this is very weird. It's not doing it any more. I swear it was, though, and I swear it was in Random (not Shuffle) mode. I'll see if I can't replicate it again.

(Further Edit -- I can never remember if this is one of the several fora I visit that frowns on double posting, so better safe than...less safe. Anyway.)

I've replicated it. It's definitely a Columns UI quirk. To make this happen, you need to have a customized button bar. Go in, remove the previous button and re-add it and move it to the top of the list without getting out of the custom button screen at all. The effect seems to only persist until you change the playback order, though; I've, uh, gone for a long while without changing out of random playback mode.