I'm running version 2.4.5404 and using a Microsoft Sidewinder X4 Keyboard
Whenever I start MusicBee, I have to go into Preferences/Plugins and re-enable the "musicbee alternative mediatekeys" plugin. From searching around on google a bit, I discovered that MusicBee has integrated this plugin with new packages which is why it's automatically disabled; however, the default functionality for my multimedia buttons on my keyboard do not work without the plugin enabled. My assumption is that since I've been using MusicBee since before the plugin was packaged with the program and since I changed around my hotkeys that my hotkeys carried over from previous versions.
So, my question boils down to two options:
1) Is there a way to force MusicBee to automatically enable the "musicbee alternative mediatekeys" plugin?
2) Can I set my hotkeys to the multimedia buttons?
SOLUTION:
I'm ashamed to admit, but all I had to do was go to Preferences>Hotkeys, press my multimedia buttons on the corresponding action, and voila--desired functionality. Being able to do this may have come from version 2.5+, but I won't blame my ignorance on that.