Media controls do not appear in the HUD when Rhythmbox is hidden

[C. Cooke]

(Ubuntu 12.04, up to date as of midnight on the 23rd of March 2012. Rhythmbox is version 2.96-0ubuntu3 )

When Rhythmbox is hidden, it continues playing through the playlist.
Media controls - previous, pause/play, next - are provided under the Sound menu. However, they are not exported into the HUD:

Expected behaviour: I'd like to be able to find "pre[vious]", "next", "pause" and "play" in the HUD.

What I get:

search token: pause
 Edit > Paste
 Sound > Choose Playlist > Play Queue
 Help > Translate this Application...
 File > Close Window
 Tabs > ccooke@bauxite: ~

search token: sound
 Sound > Rhythmbox
 Sound > Choose Playlist > Play Queue
 Sound > Sound Settings...
 Sound > Mute
 Terminal > Change Profile > Personal

(Yes, I can get to ryhtmbox (if I happen to know that rhythmbox is the thing playing music, which is quite possibly not something that a new user would have picked up yet) - but the media controls would be an improvement)

[Achim (ach1m)]

Maybe this is a duplicate of Bug #949032 ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Barnett (mu-mind)]

This is definitely a duplicate of bug #949032. Rhythmbox itself supports play/pause in HUD, but the Sound Menu doesn't. Any HUD options implemented in Rhythmbox will be unavailable when Rhythmbox isn't focused. So the only way to get the desired behavior is to add HUD options to Sound Menu.