YouTube™ Music Visualizer

Enjoy some visuals while listening your favorite music on YouTube.

The YouTube™ Music Visualizer is a Chrome extension designed to add captivating visuals while you listen to your favorite music on YouTube. It features customizable settings including color themes, bars count, bars height, and opacity, allowing users to personalize their visual experience.

Recent updates introduce smoother rendering, a new circular visualizer (in BETA), and various bug fixes for an improved and seamless interaction. The extension pauses visualizer animations when the music is paused, ensuring resource efficiency. With an intuitive popup interface and continuous enhancements, this tool transforms your YouTube music sessions into immersive audio-visual experiences.

Manifest V3
Users:
3,000+
Version:
1.3.0 (Last updated: 2022-04-17)
Creation date:
2019-07-01
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • *://*.youtube.com/*
Size:
102.16K
Full description:
See detailed description
Updated:
19 hours ago

User reviews

Users appreciate the YouTube™ Music Visualizer for its fun and customizable music visualization that enhances YouTube listening. It is lightweight and easy to use with a nostalgic style. However, multiple users report persistent bugs such as the visualizer unexpectedly activating on tab switches, freezing visuals, inaccessible customization settings, and annoying donation popups. Despite these issues, many continue to enjoy it daily and praise its overall functionality and design.
Pros
  • Provides a visually appealing music visualizer that enhances the YouTube music experience.
  • Offers good customization options allowing users to tailor the visualizer to their preferences.
  • Easy to use and works well with both standard YouTube and music.youtube.com.
  • Lightweight extension that doesn't seem to hinder performance significantly.
  • Users enjoy the nostalgic vibe similar to classic media player visualizers.
Cons
  • Recurring bug where the visualizer bars turn on automatically when switching back to a YouTube tab even if turned off, requiring page reload to disable.
  • Visualizer sometimes freezes or gets stuck onscreen and does not turn off properly.
  • Customization options can be difficult to access or sometimes unavailable, limiting user control.
  • Donation popups appear frequently, which annoys some users.
  • Some bugs affect playback like downpitching audio after pausing for a while.
Recent reviews
Please Also Give For YOUTUBE MUSIC
by Nandkishor Verma, 2025-04-23

Amazing Extension. Still use it daily!
by Unknown Player, 2025-02-20

very cool though one suggestion i'd make is making the colors of the visualizer adjust to the video playing (for ease of access it could only work on actual youtube music videos, just the ones with album covers)
by specter, 2024-12-19
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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube™ Music Visualizer requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

YouTube™ Music Visualizer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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