# BetterRYM

> Improvements for RateYourMusic

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-rym](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-rym)

## Overview

- **ID:** `better-rym`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jake Cheek
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1,166
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.61 / 5 (41 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-12-11
- **First published:** 2021-03-10
- **Size:** 130 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better-rym/)

## Description

BetterRYM is a powerful Chrome extension designed to elevate your RateYourMusic (RYM) experience by introducing a variety of convenient features. It adds missing streaming links directly on release pages, enabling you to access music effortlessly. When adding new releases, simply paste a URL to auto-fill the form, saving time and reducing errors.

Enjoy high-resolution cover art downloads and organize your collection efficiently by filtering releases based on their types. BetterRYM also converts streaming links into embed codes, perfect for sharing music across platforms. Enhance your profile management with inline editing and live markup preview, making updates smoother than ever. With BetterRYM, your RateYourMusic usage becomes more enjoyable and streamlined.

## Rankings

- #3,023 — Overall
- #374 — Social & Communication
- #50 — beta
- #67 — improve
- #69 — embed
- #112 — release

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `downloads`
- `tabs`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`
- `*://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.rateyourmusic.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise BetterRYM for making RateYourMusic easier to use and indispensable for power users. The extension is seen as high-quality, but concerns about overly broad permissions and the reliability of the 'missing streaming links' feature persist. Other common requests center on expanding filters and improving UI for date-based views, multi-select filtering, and on-demand random picks.

### Pros

- Very useful and streamlines using RateYourMusic.
- Essential tool for Power-Users of RYM (widely valued).
- Generally high-quality and well-regarded extension.

### Cons

- Permissions are unclear/overbroad and should be restricted to rateyourmusic.com (limited to necessary data).
- The 'missing streaming links' feature can mislink; users want a way to disable or control it.
- Filter UI needs improvements (date filtering, multi-select options, and a random picker).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-rym)