Hotkeys for YouTube Music™

Hotkeys for YouTube Music! Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, stop, skip, go back, like and dislike on the YouTube…

Hotkeys for YouTube Music™- Streamline Music Listening Experience

Hotkeys for YouTube Music™ is a Chrome extension designed to streamline your music experience. This productivity tool allows you to use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, skip tracks, like, dislike, and stop music on YouTube Music™ site even while working on other programs. This plugin is compatible with the recently launched https://music.youtube.com site and provides options to rebind keys via Chrome's address bar. Make sure to disable other extensions or close other music programs if facing issues, and consider restarting your PC for consistent performance.

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Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-03-05

By: PaulHansen

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.69

(135)

Version: 1.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-12-06)

Creation date: 2019-01-16

Permissions:

activeTab

Size: 10.64K

Email: ma*****@paul.rs

Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Restores functionality of media keys for YouTube Music
Works reliably across various browsers and setups
User-friendly with no need for extensive configuration
Global hotkeys allow control from any application

Cons

Volume down hotkey doesn't work for some users
Like hotkey behaves as a toggle, potentially removing existing likes
Doesn't work with all wireless headphones
Some users want additional support for regular YouTube

Most mentioned

Functionality of media keys
Need for global hotkeys
Requests for additional feature support for YouTube.com
Issues with specific hotkeys not functioning

User reviews

Not supported by Chrome anymore, please update the app!

Alex R., 2025-03-05

thank you, dunno why youtube music decided to randomly stop using media keys but this extension fixed it

BrainShackle, 2024-08-11

O M G! Thank you so much!! For many years I have been alt + tap to switch from CS to youtube in order to pause it for 20sec because its 1v2 :D Now I can finally pause it without leaving cs game or any video game which i had this problem in multiple games. <33. You made my YEAR! I hated to alt tab because it takes 2 sec to do it and 2 secs to switch back because its loading so looong. I recommend this app for 100% Life safer. 5/5 extension.

SandlyCut, 2024-08-09

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hotkeys for YouTube Music™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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