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Blocks the video keeping only the audio on YouTube and YouTube Music.
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Due to some recent YouTube changes the extension does not block the video on YouTube desktop but only hides it. The extension still blocks the video on YouTube Music and mobile YouTube. We are trying to fix it. Stay tuned!
The only Chrome extension that not only disables the video but also blocks it. The best extension to reduce the use of CPU and GPU, save bandwidth and hide NSFW content. Works on YouTube, YouTube Music and YouTube videos embedded in sites.
FEATURES (ALL OPTIONAL):
1. Blocks the video keeping only the audio
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 block the video quickly without using the popup window
Notes:
i. Live YouTube videos are hidden but not blocked
ii. If you have enabled the features 1, 2, 3, 4 the images are not only hidden but also blocked saving more bandwidth
iii. 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
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
- (2024-05-29) Alexander Mihailov: it works as expected (disabled youtube music video). Also it has lots of settings for tweaking.
- (2023-12-09) Vinh Phạm: It's much faster than other extensions that I installed. My previously installed extension kept on playing video from the beginning instead of continuing where the video was left.
- (2023-11-30) bishal singha: Life saver. Keep up the good work. Highly grateful.
- (2023-11-11) Kuching Neko: really helpfull thanks
- (2023-11-05) Rayyan Chilungo: Easy calibration, and works all the time, thank you. A truly awesome product, that many including myself would pay for, amazing that it is free!
- (2023-10-31) Jonah Hakobian-Leone: Really works!
- (2023-10-03) Ezy Bruker: Great extension does what it says works great on mobile I kiwi
- (2023-09-30) 油管总管长（油管总管长）: Android smart phone，kiwi browser. rest screen or background play，cannot play youtube playlist continuously. turn off your plugin，it is no problem. 安卓手机kiwi浏览器，在后台播放或者手机息屏的时候，youtube不能连续播放列表中的视频。播放完当前的就会停住，激活页面才能继续。望改进。谢谢。我做过测试，关闭这个插件后恢复正常。
- (2023-09-06) Saksham Dahiya: It does better than expected. make YouTube looks very clean!
- (2023-08-23) Tequin Lake: Perfection
- (2023-08-01) Peter Amir: very useful extension to save data
- (2023-07-29) Mohsen Essa: ironically it increased my cpu usage from %3-%4 to %20. looked clean tho
- (2023-07-03) SDuna: Works great as of the June 24th update!
- (2023-07-02) B: It works and has a lot of options you can toggle. Perfect.
- (2023-06-21) Szymon Skworc: It uses the same amount of CPU and internet as without this extension. A hopeless add-on that just covers the video with a black background that says "Music Mode".
- (2023-06-15) Vok prorok cyberVed: надо чтобы оно видео НЕ ПОДГРУЖАЛО !( надо чтобы экономило трафик не подгружая видео трафик ) а так эт пока только визуальный плеер получается был тупо картинку блокируюший не более
- (2023-06-11) XI: VERY GOOD, WORK SMOOTH.
- (2023-06-09) Oshan Siriwardena: Absolutely amazing if you wanna keep the audio from a youtube videos playing while you work, saves bandwidth and retains audio quality, and skips all ads completely! Would rate 6 stars for performance.
- (2023-06-03) Luca Palumbo: Not working. Infinite loading.
- (2023-05-30) P H: Something has changed recently (writing this on 5/30/23) causing the extension to break YouTube Music. YT-M will just act like it is loading the first song to play indefinitely, never succeeding to do so. It wasn't until I turned off the Video blocker under the YouTube Music section in the extension options that the issue stopped happening. Since this feature is the primary reason I use the add-on, the add-on no longer has value to me. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version.
- (2023-05-29) TNS: Not working
- (2023-05-16) Alfre Fenollar: Perfecta
- (2023-05-02) Shoji VR: radio youtube be like
- (2023-04-27) Agus Fadillah Sani: Helps reduce CPU usage in case hides video while using other programs.
- (2023-04-14) Tofiq: Awesome. ━((*′д｀)爻(′д｀*))━!!!!
- (2023-04-06) P. M.: Works miracles. GPU usage noticeable reduced.
- (2023-03-11) Michael Lin: Easy to use. Find some soft background music when coding job.
- (2023-02-22) Neuclya Droid: Absolute life Saver. Kudos To The Dev Team .
- (2023-02-07) Wajahat Khan: A huge thank you to the brilliant developer behind Music Mode for YouTube™! This extension has changed the way we interact with YouTube and listen to music forever. With features like the ability to block the video and only keep the audio, hide video thumbnails, channel/user avatars, and other distracting images, save bandwidth and reduce CPU and GPU usage, and even skip ads, this extension truly has it all. Not only does it work seamlessly on YouTube, YouTube Music, and videos embedded in other websites, but it also gives us the option to enable or disable the extension for all tabs or specific tabs. Thank you for creating such a game-changing and innovative product that has made our YouTube experience so much better. Keep up the fantastic work!
- (2023-01-11) Manuel Calvo Rodriguez (Manú Coach): Not working to me. Chrome on windows 7. It just do nothing.
- (2023-01-06) Natakiro: It works great, overall. However, sadly, it does not work with Picture-in-picture mode on the Vivaldi (chromium) browser; it just refuses to enter this mode. The option to show a static thumbnail is a nice option, and I was hoping I could enter PIP mode with this mini player showing this static image, since I like seeing the cover of the album of playlists on my other reference screen while doing digital art, but it just doesn't work. it seems I will just have to turn the quality down to use PIP and not use this extension. :(
- (2022-12-14) Iliuta S: I really like the extension that you've made! Only one thing should be fixed: if the extension is enabled only for the current tab and I restart the browser, the extension is not enabled anymore for the same tab and I have to enable it again. Besides this, it is perfect from my point of view ;-)
- (2022-12-07) Tommaso Seneci: Amazing extension, it completely disables video so that you computer will only load sound and has little impact on CPU
- (2022-12-01) Bayu Mutawakkil: it works very well
- (2022-11-21) Arseniy P: upd. нет кнопки на youtube shorts. ещё бы встроить переключатель или кнопку быстрых настроек в right click menu на страницах youtube, лучше по желанию включать отключать её там. о, ещё тема для отдельного расширения, наверное. хочется иметь возможность скачивать thumbnails в удобной кнопке(не знаю, куда бы её поместить. но тоже можно в right click menu страницы, наверное) но сразу переименовать их названием из tittle page, качать в макс качестве картинки. они весят всё равно очень мало, сравнительно. если переименовывать, то добавить навзвание канала в конце или в начале.
- (2022-11-14) c: Love it! Functional very well with YT Music. I wish you can make the thumbnail of the videos replace the video, instead of just black background.
- (2022-10-31) J Rey: Va Perfecto y están pendientes de que se mantenga así. Excelente trabajo
- (2022-10-23) Achintha Gunasekara: Loved it. Hope this gain your motivation (for developer)
- (2022-10-13) Matthew P (Code Bender): I've been using this extension for a few weeks now, and I like it, but it's unfortunate that it's a bit of a pain to access from the YouTube Music app since you can't pin extensions in that. My main complaint is that it doesn't reliably prevent the automatic hourly (?) pausing that YouTube does to make sure you're still listening. As a feature request, I would love to see a context menu option to allow the video on a song-by-song basis, or even a context option to enable / disable video as we wish. This would make it much more accessible than having to navigate the menus to turn off all the features on the page. One other observation is that the song art still displays in the Toast notification on Windows 10 when you use a keyboard command (I have one with media controls) to pause the music. All together a solid extension though. 😀
- (2022-09-30) 老狗: It only works for the live stream.
- (2022-09-27) sa vip: This will help to play background YouTube video with even screen off through kiwi browser
- (2022-08-07) Wimp Just Math: Удобно, выключил глобально, включаешь по необходимости. Опционально бы действительно превью на весь экран растягивать, как писали выше.
- (2022-07-27) Aiden: Awesome - the only extension to date I've found that works on mobile. Love it.
- (2022-07-19) assec42: Great extension, the developer seems to be very active and responsive! One gripe I do have is that it wasn't clear enough there was a shortcut to enable/disable the extension for a tab (not a lot of people read the update logs, especially if they just downloaded the extension!). Also, I saw a suggestion where the extension should display the thumbnail instead of the logo/black screen and I do agree: it would make the extension even better! Anyway, 5/5, best extension of its kind, and as someone said "It just works".
- (2022-07-15) Humane Bicycle: excellent.
- (2022-03-21) 김창공: I'm using it well. When turning off a YouTube video, is there a way to change the image to a black screen instead of Music Mode? I play a lullaby when I put my child to sleep, and I want to minimize the lighting.
- (2022-03-17) Juan Jose Pena Becerra: Excelente Extension, ademas te libera de las distracciones de las miniaturas, no estoy seguro si tambien bloquea que carguen las imagenes, si es asi te ahorra mucho tiempo de carga.
- (2022-03-14) William Parker: Superb! I wanted YouTube Music to play "music" not videos, and also the option to only play audio on some videos temporarily, and this extension has implemented exactly all the features that I needed!
- (2022-03-11) Oscar Pearson: Really Good! Does everything it says and easy to use.
- (2022-03-10) Maxwell Souza: Aparentemente funciona, queria desabilitar o video do youtube music para economizar dados. Porem nao sei se é só visual ou se realmente bloqueia o download.