With Windows 10, certain media players (at least MediaMonkey, Amazon Music, Spotify ... probably most of them) display a horrible and annoying popup on the upper-left part of the screen whenever you press a media command on your mouse or keyboard. It has the volume, track name, album name, and some controls.
I thought there would be an option in the apps to disable this garbage, but the people at MediaMonkey say that the "only way to disable that on screen display (OSD) is remove most of Windows API Media support."
On a different forum I read that Spotify does have a preference setting to turn off the OSD, but I haven't confirmed it.
My hope would be a simple registry key change that disables it for all apps, but on various Windows forums they say there is no way to disable the media OSD.
However, the MediaMonkey people also recommended an app called HideVolumeOSD that purports to hide the volume OSD next to the media player, and maybe (hopefully) also disables the player OSD (but it doesn't claim to).
So my question: is there a known and reliable way to disable the media OSD on Windows 10?