Music Keys

Music Keys

Adds global shortcuts for play/pause, next, previous to music/videos in YouTube, gaana, SoundCloud, 8tracks.

What is Music Keys?
Music Keys is a Chrome extension that allows you to control music and videos in YouTube, gaana, SoundCloud, and 8tracks with global shortcuts. It enables you to play/pause, navigate to next or previous tracks while working on other tabs or when Chrome is in the background. The shortcut for play/pause is 'Ctrl+shift+9'.
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Stats
By: shubham
Users: 99 ▲ 6
Rating: 4.67 (21)
Version: 3.1 (Last updated: 2018-01-14)
Creation date: 2018-01-14
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • background
  • https://www.youtube.com/
  • https://gaana.com/
  • https://soundcloud.com/
  • http://8tracks.com/
  • https://play.spotify.com/
Size: 151.55K
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Summary

Plays/pauses YouTube videos, gaana, SoundCloud, 8tracks. Helpful when you are listening music and working on some other chrome tab, or chrome is in background. Can only play/pause 1st tab out of multiple tabs running, shortcut is "Ctrl+shift+9", global shortcut. You can also get shortcuts from "keyboard shortcuts" in "chrome://extensions".

User reviews
by WK WK, 2024-02-01

works
by Durgesh G Durgesh G, 2018-12-11

Great extension! works just the way it should. I had a problem and Shubham responded and fixed my issue right away. It's nice not to have to go to the tab that's playing the music to pause it.
by tyler burford tyler burford, 2016-02-09
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Safety
Risk impact

Music Keys is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Music Keys if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Music Keys has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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