Media_Play_Pause only works when mapped

[egelz]

I want a Spotify alarm clock.
I am trying to write a script that will execute once and exit (I want the Windows Task Scheduler to run it every morning).
This is what I wrote:

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SoundSet, 30
Send {Media_Play_Pause}

The problem is that

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Send {Media_Play_Pause}

doesn't do anything.
I tried the same script but replaced

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Send {Media_Play_Pause}

with

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Send {Media_Next}

and it worked fine.

I tried mapping Media_Play_Pause like this:

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^Space::Send {Media_Play_Pause}

and it also worked when I hit Ctrl+Space, but I don't want this mapping - I just want it to run once.

What am I doing wrong?

[qwerty12]

Sending Media_Play_Pause is kinda unreliable; you have no way of knowing which program is going to react to the press. Try something like this, which signals Spotify directly:

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DetectHiddenWindows On
PostMessage 0x319,, 0xE0000,, ahk_class SpotifyMainWindow ; msg = WM_APPCOMMAND; lParam = APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE