Music Mode for YouTube™
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- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Hides the video and thumbnails on YouTube. Blocks the video keeping only the audio on YouTube Music.
Reduce distractions and hide NSFW content on YouTube with Music Mode for YouTube™—perfect for uninterrupted music listening.
A browser extension that hides the video and thumbnails on YouTube, YouTube Music and embedded YouTube videos in third-party sites. The extension used to block the video and play only the audio, but due to recent YouTube changes, it now only blocks videos on YouTube Music, while on YouTube, videos are just hidden.
FEATURES (ALL OPTIONAL):
1. Hides the video on YouTube and blocks the video, playing only the audio on YouTube Music
2. Hides the video thumbnails
3. Hides the images of channel/user avatars
4. Hides various other images
5. Disables the "Video paused. Continue watching?" message
6. Skips the ads
Separate options for YouTube, YouTube Music and YouTube videos embedded in other sites. You can enable/disable the extension for all tabs or for specific tabs.
Extra options:
1. Hides the thumbnails and various other images in Google search when you search for a song or a singer
2. Quick access buttons: two extra buttons on YouTube in order to hide the thumbnails and hide the video quickly without using the popup window
Notes:
i. If you have enabled the features 1, 2, 3, 4 the images are not only hidden but also blocked saving more bandwidth
ii. The message "Video paused. Continue watching?" is disabled only when you block the video
Frequently Asked Questions: https://thunderarea.github.io/musicmodeforyoutube/faq/
Available for mobiles using the Kiwi browser that supports extensions: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
Available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/music-mode-for-youtube/
The source code of the extension is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/Thunderarea/music-mode-for-youtube
The extension does not collect any kind of data. The user options are stored locally in the user's browser.
Date of release: 02/10/2019
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/thunderarea
Donate to support the development of the extension: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=V2EHRNX8RBTX2
Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=67620554
Latest reviews
- Linh Nguyen Dinh
- Best
- Ta Ta
- Works as intended. Thank you.
- Dreeaea
- super extension nice job
- vpnsetup
- super simple, exactly what I was looking for to hide cover art. thanks!
- Harshit Gupta
- Did what it said and also works very well.
- EMinRE
- I used the plugin today and really liked it. The interface is beautiful, extremely simple, and functional. I use the plugin for YouTube Music. It saves data, but I'm not sure if it prevents videos from pausing, at least not yet. I hope I don't have to downgrade my rating for the app (it also prevents YouTube Music from pausing without any issues), because there doesn't seem to be another plugin that can provide me with two critical solutions for YouTube Music at once. For that, I have extra respect and thanks for the developer. I hope this review reaches him.
- Mirco Altdorf
- Unfortunately, it consumes exactly the same amount of Bandwidth (and with that energy) that it would otherwise if the video was normally playing. The video is playing in the background, it's just an overlay.
- Sportytrainguy
- Awesome! But unfortunately, youtube will not play my playlist if the ad block mode is on, which is a shame.
- abdhul basith
- very useful extension 100% recommended
- Md Rony Best Channel
- like your ingoy my chos your company
- CODEMASTER
- Very good and block ads and you can use for no ad free youtube :) and no more wasting money.Thank you for making and keep it free.
- Professor Layton
- The extension is great, but having to reconfigure it every time it randomly decides to reset its settings is tiring.
- Karan Abraham
- Works a charm! Can easily toggle between video and audio.
- aditya vats
- very useful
- Chanul Kulasekara
- It's the GOAT. The GOAT
- king Arthur
- it does not block the video it just use an image to cover the video so its still use a lot bandwidth and battery.
- Redwan Shawkat
- Definitely something I will go for...The only issue I am getting into is, it is messing with Brave's adblocker configuration for YouTube. Using brave browser for quite some time for its adblocking privileges but this extension couldn't seem to cope up with it.. Fix this and I'll give you 5! Update: It looks like you have fixed it...So I am changing my rating as told! Update: It is having issues again on YouTube... YouTube Music was running from the start though.. Update: I read it now. Its all ok now. It suddenly working fine now. Thanks for your support!
- I Want
- this is all i needed. Thank you so much
- BeatAByte
- It works perfectly on Youtube Music as it should! No GPU waste for listening to music <3
- Peace Hunter
- The best extension I found on internet. If you would like to listen to your favorite music, but don't want to be distracted from different videos on YouTube, this is the extension for you!!! Love and thanks!
- Artha
- please add a mark on the video that I have already watch. and sorry for the 1 star because i've seen you responding to a low score comments and I will change it later
- Wahyu Fadilla Perkasa
- The only reason one would want a *music mode* is to save bandwidth by loading only the audio and not the video. This app is not doing that. All this does is stick a JPEG on top of the video and call it a day, one is still downloading the whole video. If that's all that the extension does, the minimize button does a better job at it. Not disclosing that clearly on the page, and still keeping the now-conflicting description on the extension overview, is a dick move.
- رحال رحال (رحال)
- good idea
- ash air
- awsome :)
- Rizky Ramdhani
- it actually works !!
- YøuTûbé .cøm
- Its a very good plug in web app /extention /add on which ever you may wish to call em i can enjoy this with kiwi but kiwi is not a 1/only mobile app with the crazy full power of having them so many many different apps now is able to get addons now adays even microsoft edge can do just a small bit of that even if not fully capable of it nearly all firefox geck mobile browsers can get a few limited addons including the most popular background play but i find firefox apps to just be slow af so i never use them but i do kiwi and others i wanna see this in microsoft edge store plz im asking you if it can go there you might aswel you did a great job with this add on keep it up
- emma healy
- unfortunately useless on youtube music because for some reason every song plays good luck babe by chappell roan? i like that song but I can't use the extension then :( I love how it hides the pictures but still giving 1 star because the music is broken
- satis suman
- song are best
- Harsh Singh
- song are best
- Idilsh Network
- Thanks! & It is a very good and useful tool. ✨
- Sarvesh Srivastav
- amazing this extension
- Grayson Wallace
- I dont really like it.
- HÙNG DUY NGUYỄN (MARLIN)
- thanks ad
- Atha Mundrajat
- Must have for any student. Saves you a lot of money over time on wifi.
- Stojan Došlov
- Great stuff, been using it for years now.
- N Ray
- It just replaces the YT display with video wallpaper whence the video keeps playing in the bkg. I was looking to download only the audio channels while blocking the video channels to save bandwidth etc.
- Harry Krisna
- It's working on Youtube Music, I can see the requests bandwidth decreased. However, in normal Youtube I tried to compare the request bandwidth and found that it's still same as normal video mode. The interface on Youtube is nice btw, keep it up
- Belay Mulat
- Excellent work
- Ahmed Ali Memon
- Nicely works for what this app is for
- Rive Chen
- Very useful, thanks!
- Ananta kumar Kolay
- The extension works really well. Compatible with almost all computer browsers. Loved the numerous options it provides to its users. Great job by developer for making it such an ease to reduce data consumption.
- Abhijith C
- Doing google's work for free.
- Toxicthewolf9 Videos
- Worked for a while, now apparently YouTube thinks it's an ad blocker. It's not. YouTube is dumb.
- ETSY SEO EXPERT TEAM
- so helpfull
- Fadhly Hamzah
- Freaking genius.
- Stef “Skort84” Hell
- top =)
- MxLoli Development
- it works
- Rizaldy Wirawan
- For now, it works!
- Nabeel A
- i loved this extension, unfortunately it has not worked in some time
- MD RIFAT
- Great extension. Does what it says.