Hi Isaac, Alt+P won't work as it is already assigned to the Playback menu. Here's how you do it: Control P for Preferences. Go to the keyboard shortcuts section. Tab to the add new button. Hit space, then shift+tab back to the list of current shortcuts. Go down to the new one you've just created. Tab to the treeview, choose what you want the shortcut to do, like play for example. Then, in the edit field, press the hotkey. I use the letter X for my play shortcut, as I've got used to Winamp hotkeys. Then tab to the OK button. Test the key, it should work just fine. Of course then you can create your other hotkeys in the same way. James Scholes http://www.jls-radio.com -----Original Message----- Sent by Isaac Porat on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 07:26 AM Hello Foobar 2000 users I try to learn how to use this player I found a useful tutorial at: http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar/accueil.shtml Many things are reasonably straight forward but I have a problem with the basics namely the shortcut to play pause next track previous track etc. Searching the internet, I found that in early versions this was built in (similar to the Winamp x, c v etc) but this was dropped as far as I understand from later versions (mine is the latest stable) I can do all these from the menu but this is not of course practical. Looking at Preferences > shortcut keys, these commands are not in the list of built-in shortcuts there are about 12 instead of the 30 or so in earlier versions. I know how to add my own shortcuts following the tutorial above but the only action I can find of the above (and there 80 or so possibilities) is play. When I add it to the shorcut list for example Alt + p for play it does not work. I found the following list of shortcuts here but the relevant ones here do not work they only applied to earlier versions I think. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Preferences:General :Keyboard_Shortcuts I obviously doing something wrong and would appreciate help. (does the screen reader JAWS 10 blocks relevant keystrokes?) Thanks Regards Isaac __________ NOD32 3817 (20090202) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com James Scholes E-mail: james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscholes@xxxxxxx AIM: JamesScholes000 Skype: james.scholes Website: http://www.jamesscholes.com Blog: http://www.jamesscholes.com/blog Radio station and TeamTalk server: http://www.jls-radio.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamesscholes Find me on Facebook! Username: jamesscholes Link to Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1375965156&hiq=jamesscholes Last.FM Profile: http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 -- Message sent at 01:12:39 PM GMT on Monday, February 02, 2009 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq