MiniPlay

Control Google Music, Pandora, and Spotify with a popup and keyboard shortcuts.
What is MiniPlay?
MiniPlay is a Chrome extension designed to enhance the user experience of Google Music, Pandora, and Spotify. It offers a miniplayer and keyboard shortcuts for easy playback control along with options to browse and search through your music library. In addition, MiniPlay provides Last.fm scrobbling, rich notifications, and more features for a richer musical experience. It associates user settings with the Chrome account for consistent setup across multiple devices.

Extension stats

By: Jeff Chen
Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.34 (53)
Version: 0.7.3 (Last updated: 2021-03-16)
Creation date: 2016-11-26
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • notifications
  • storage
  • tabs
  • *://play.google.com/music*
  • *://*.pandora.com/*
  • *://songza.com/*
  • *://play.spotify.com/*
Size: 959.49K

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Extension summary

MiniPlay extends Google Play Music, Pandora, and Spotify Web with keyboard shortcuts, a miniplayer, Last.fm scrobbling, rich notifications, and more!


FEATURES

  • Control playback from a popup
  • Browse and search through your library (currently only Google Music is supported)
  • Global (Chrome-wide) shortcuts
  • Rich notifications with actions
  • Last.fm scrobbling

PERMISSIONS

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works well with Google Play Music
  • Simple and clean design
  • Good functionality for controlling music playback
  • Good for managing artist, album, and playlist selection
  • Easy to use with function keys on the keyboard
Cons
  • Does not work with Spotify
  • Limited functionality with YouTube Music
  • Issues with notifications and player refresh
  • Some features need tweaking, like keyboard shortcuts not showing
  • Scrolling play status bar is hidden
Most mentioned
  • Only works with Google Play Music
  • Issues with Spotify support
  • Needs support for YouTube Music
  • Good for controlling music playback
  • Great user experience
Recent reviews
Не работает, не видит вкладку с ютуб музыкой: no music tab found.
by Artyom Melnichenko, 2024-03-12

it wouldve been great but this does not work on spotify!!!!!!!!
by Thuỳ Dung, 2024-01-08

I have been using it for years with Google Play Music, but since that is going to be eventually replaced with YouTube Music it would be great if MiniPlay would work with that was well. I have tried to get it to work but it does not. This is a great tool to use my function keys on my keyboard and I would still love to have that function.
by James Johnson, 2020-07-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

MiniPlay requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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