YouTube™ Tracklist Control

Provides useful, cross-tab control functionalities when watching music-compilation videos on YouTube™.

YouTube™ Tracklist Control - Interactive Music Control Extension

YouTube™ Tracklist Control is a Chrome extension offering enhanced control over music-compilation videos on YouTube™. It provides features including tracklist building, media control, cross-tab interactivity, global keyboard shortcuts, and track/video change notifications. Its interactive tracklist is built by scanning timestamped tracks in the video description or comments.

Extension stats

Users: 554
Rating: 4.75
(8)
Version: 2.7.1 (Last updated: 2023-09-15)
Creation date: 2019-06-14
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • notifications
  • storage
  • tabs
  • background
  • *://*.youtube.com/*
Size: 679.94K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension builds its own interactive tracklist by scanning for timestamped tracks in the video description or comments.

The tracklist can be displayed from any tab and controlled via configurable global keyboard shortcuts (defaults are the keyboard's media buttons).

Features:

  • Media control (play, pause, rewind, fast-forward, previous track, next track)
  • Tracklist building from the video description or comments
  • Tracklist navigation
  • Clickable progress bar on current song
  • Support of keyboard media keys (configurable global keyboard shortcuts)
  • Cross-tab interactivity (view and control the tracklist from any tab)
  • Push notifications on track/video change (toggleable setting)

Changelog: https://github.com/XavierDuthil/youtube-tracklist-control/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Source: https://github.com/XavierDuthil/youtube-tracklist-control

User reviews

Edit: The extension does not work with more than one YouTube tab, it detects the first YouTube tab it finds and ignores subsequent ones, unfortunately. Edit2: I have been corrected that the extension can detect the tab you want by clicking the refresh button on the top left. Great extension: Allows user to create own keybindings for play/pause/forward/etc. Allows user to skip tracks. Allows user to skip forward/backwards 10 seconds. Allows controlling YouTube from any tab (or even if another application window is active). The best thing about it: It does NOT show the album art or video thumbnails. This is the main edge it has over the built-in YouTube controls in Chrome, as the built-in one shows a thumbnail from the YouTube video playing, making it an eye-sore. This one shows only text and takes up minimal visual footprint. I hope this is never changed. I think this is the best extension of its kind on the Chrome Web Store.
by Ilhaam Elhussein, 2022-09-11

Its actually really nice, but the design really bothers me. I would really aprecciate a dark mode option or color customization and possibly an option to go to previous track (the most important for me). Then It would be my favourite plug-in ever.
by Sawa Możdżer, 2021-08-23

Very useful, perfect.
by Matheus, 2021-04-04
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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube™ Tracklist Control requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

YouTube™ Tracklist Control is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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