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I'm trying to make an audio player, and I'm wondering how to make it so that the application exposes its audio controls (play/pause, prev, next) in the little widget that appears next to the floating volume control (when adjusting volume). I'm using C++ WinAPI, and I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to achieve this using the WinAPI with some methods or something.
Thanks for any help!
Hello @Frank , could you check this document to see whether what you want is, for example, like below? If it is not, show an example of what you expected will help us understand your issue more precisely.
I would actually like to expose the controls to the volume control in Win 10, as shown below: 
Is there a way to do this with the WinAPI?
Is "the volume control" system volume control or your own application's control? You referred document is for how to control volume in your own audio application. But my understanding of your issue is how to layout your application UI control instead of implementing the control's action like adjust volume. Feel free to point out if I am wrong. And could you share your use case for why do you want to achieve this? What you have done?
No, actually, as my question states, I want to somehow be able to expose the audio controls already in my application to the native Windows audio controls (shown in screenshot above)
So in this case, "volume control" refers to the system volume control.
Thanks for confirmation. I got what you mean. There seems no documents about how to custom system volume control by adding other application's controls. However, if you want your application behave similarly in taskbar, when it is minimized, we can find out which technique is more suitable to implement what you want. Could you check if Notification area flyouts or thumbnail toolbar can meet your requirements?
Actually, Castorix31 answered my question below. Didn't know it was only for UWP though, but thanks for the help anyway!
You seem to talk about the System Media Transport Controls (UWP)
Integrate with the System Media Transport Controls
Extending a Universal Windows Platform Media App