Fixing Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast Radio Player

I’m a big fan of Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast Radio Player. For 30-something dollars a year, I get all the high quality radio I can listen to.

However, every now and again the player will forget to present the song information but will continue to play music. It’s just a little quib and is usually fixed by refreshing the player. I recently discovered a way to refresh just the information and not restart the song.

Since the player is simply an Internet Explorer browser window, you can use the keyboard shortcuts for Back and Forward. The buttons themselves are not there because the player removes all toolbars, status bars, and sidebars, however the functionality of those buttons are still there.

So, what is it?

Hold the Alt key and tap the ← (left arrow) once.

That’s it!

Update
Turns out that doing that will only take you to the previous song information. Damn.

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