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[zzeitg]

I just bought WH-1000XM3 headphones, which are able to control playback via touch sensor (via Bluetooth AVRCP protocol).

https://helpguide.sony.net/mdr/wh1000xm3/v1/en/contents/TP0001703116.html

Everything works fine if I play music from iPhone.

But when playing music from PC (JRiver MediaCenter), only volume up/down works OK, the other gestures (play/pause, next/previous, ...) not.

(When looking into BT hardware card, there's WH-1000XM3 Avrcp transport adapter listed as working fine.)

Any idea what to adjust or set, in order to control the JRiver playback from the headphones?

[RD James]

The controls don't work with my Bose QC35-II headphones either.

[RD James]

I had a chance to look into this more in-depth today.
Bluetooth controls do work in Microsoft's own apps, but do not work in any other non-UWP applications.
 
From reading up on this, it seems that a bug was introduced in Windows 10 1803 that prevented Bluetooth controls working in Win32 apps.
1709 and earlier should apparently work. I updated my system to 1809, and that also fixed the problem.
Play/pause and next/prev controls are both working in Media Center as expected.
 
Tested with Bose QC35-II and Sony WH-1000XM3.

[JimH]

Thanks for posting the solution.