Music Mode for YouTube™

CRX ID
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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Hides the video and thumbnails on YouTube. Blocks the video keeping only the audio on YouTube Music.

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Music Mode for YouTube™
Description from store

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

vpnsetup 2025-10-03

super simple, exactly what I was looking for to hide cover art. thanks!

Harshit Gupta 2025-09-24

Did what it said and also works very well.

EMinRE 2025-09-16

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 2025-06-28

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 2025-06-23

Awesome! But unfortunately, youtube will not play my playlist if the ad block mode is on, which is a shame.

abdhul basith 2025-06-20

very useful extension 100% recommended

Md Rony Best Channel 2025-06-20

like your ingoy my chos your company

CODEMASTER 2025-06-19

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 2025-06-04

The extension is great, but having to reconfigure it every time it randomly decides to reset its settings is tiring.

Karan Abraham 2025-05-30

Works a charm! Can easily toggle between video and audio.

aditya vats 2025-05-18

very useful

Chanul Kulasekara 2025-05-08

It's the GOAT. The GOAT

king Arthur 2025-04-20

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 2025-04-09

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 2025-03-30

this is all i needed. Thank you so much

BeatAByte 2025-03-24

It works perfectly on Youtube Music as it should! No GPU waste for listening to music <3

Peace Hunter 2025-03-16

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 2025-03-16

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 2025-02-22

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)‬‎ 2025-02-21

good idea

ash air 2025-02-08

awsome :)

Rizky Ramdhani 2025-02-06

it actually works !!

YøuTûbé .cøm 2025-01-29

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 2025-01-28

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 2025-01-03

song are best

Harsh Singh 2024-12-25

song are best

Idilsh Network 2024-12-23

Thanks! & It is a very good and useful tool. ✨

Sarvesh Srivastav 2024-12-20

amazing this extension

Grayson Wallace 2024-12-16

I dont really like it.

HÙNG DUY NGUYỄN (MARLIN) 2024-12-05

thanks ad

Atha Mundrajat 2024-12-02

Must have for any student. Saves you a lot of money over time on wifi.

Stojan Došlov 2024-11-14

Great stuff, been using it for years now.

N Ray 2024-11-11

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 2024-11-08

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 2024-11-07

Excellent work

Ahmed Ali Memon 2024-10-29

Nicely works for what this app is for

Rive Chen 2024-10-27

Very useful, thanks!

Ananta kumar Kolay 2024-10-18

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 2024-10-13

Doing google's work for free.

Toxicthewolf9 Videos 2024-10-03

Worked for a while, now apparently YouTube thinks it's an ad blocker. It's not. YouTube is dumb.

ETSY SEO EXPERT TEAM 2024-09-27

so helpfull

Fadhly Hamzah 2024-09-25

Freaking genius.

Stef “Skort84” Hell 2024-09-17

top =)

MxLoli Development 2024-09-16

it works

Rizaldy Wirawan 2024-09-13

For now, it works!

Nabeel A 2024-09-13

i loved this extension, unfortunately it has not worked in some time

MD RIFAT 2024-09-03

Great extension. Does what it says.

20 Zino Moldez 2024-09-02

Its so great! Before i always had to go to the tab to skip the ads.Now i dont. This deserves 10 stars

Sajid Azad 2024-08-23

lovely extension, by far one of my favorites to use while studying when i just want music and dont want to stream the video !!

Spariant 2024-08-19

Great extension, excellent QoL features. AdBlocker doesn't seem to work on ChromeOS though. Any tips?

Statistics

Installs
60,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Rating
4.5 (375 votes)
Last update
2025-09-15
Version 6.4.35
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