Enables you to disable video streams on youtube and listen audio
"Audio only youtube" chrome extension enables you to disable only video on youtube which saves internet usage more than 50% when you want to listen songs on youtube.
Note: It doesn't support Youtube Live Videos.
You can enable/disable it by just clicking on the icon shown in the extension bar.
Audio only youtube is an open-source project licensed under GPLv3. You can find sources here :
https://github.com/Ashish-Bansal/audio-only-youtube
Any kind of contributions to the project are welcomed and thanks to all who contributed to this project!
Latest reviews
- (2024-04-13) Алексей Петров: stopped working
- (2024-03-08) Jason Fong: After testing using the net-internals chrome tools, the extension appears to indeed lower overall data usage. With a ~6 minute video (144p, static image video) using the extension showed 4338 KB used on average, while 7588 KB was used without the extension. Hopefully this helps to clear up anyone's doubts. It would be nice if the replacement splash screen were customizable, for example having just a black screen instead of having the text displayed. Great extension otherwise. Edit: The video is now replaced with the thumbnail which I think this a nice compromise. 5 stars!
- (2023-11-15) Mohsen Essa: stopped working today.
- (2023-11-07) Dmitry Komarov: works, Chrome 118.0.5993.88
- (2023-10-30) Richard McIntyre: Stopped working on 118.0.5993.117
- (2023-10-20) Pierre-Florent Poujol: Support for Youtube Music is missing
- (2023-10-10) Ö.T.: Perfect.
- (2023-10-03) Trình: please fix the issue with yt music
- (2023-09-30) Phantom “Not your business” undisclosed: disables audio on ytm. pls fix same issue with similar plugins
- (2023-09-19) Hector Elider: Super genial
- (2023-08-30) Hooman: Works fine for me.
- (2023-08-10) Flippa_da_Boss: on paper, its everything i wanted. in practice, the audio stalls in the beginning and ceases to play audio even though the video progress scroller is moving and the video not-paused. sometimes it doesnt stall when i dis/re-enable or when i refresh, though it is very irregular and inconsistent. it appears to work when the audio waits to play after the rest of youtube has been loaded in, but fails like this when the video attempts to play before the rest of the site is loaded in, hence a stalling-like behaviour. 5 stars if fixed.
- (2023-08-07) Hashbandit: Works great
- (2023-07-23) Johnathan Cornett: Works good, It does not work on live video streams. Any chance you could add that in the future? Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
- (2023-07-12) Igor Colic: I gave it one star so the dev has easier time finding the bug. The extension works very well, being open source it doens't deserve 1 star no matter what. Reason for 1 star is that it loops the same audio after my pc goes to sleep, to be preicise, last audio before the laptop went to sleep. The thumbnail and timeline are correct but the audio is always the same.
- (2023-07-12) Serge Kolpakov: good work
- (2023-07-11) Adrian River: Yes! Today (July/2023) I installed it again and it's working, thanks.
- (2023-06-28) jim hopkins: Thanks for the update. works again
- (2023-06-26) Aaron Raynor: Fixed! Back up to 5 stars. Original text:Been using it for years, but recently, it doesn't work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled. Will bump this up to 5 stars if a fix comes through.
- (2023-06-26) Cley Faye: Fonctionne bien. La dernière mise à jour (juin 2023) corrige les problèmes récents.
- (2023-06-26) Safeuq Mohamed: Works excellent. Does what it exactly says. Not sure about other reviews saying not working. Works perfectly for me on Chrome 114.0.5735.133. One suggestion would be to have the toggle button below the video, so that we can toggle more easily. Although this is something I can live with.
- (2023-06-23) Etienne Vanier: EDIT: Stopped working about a week ago. Sadness is put on the stack. Sadness resolves. Works very well. Only issue is that activating and deactivating the extension tends to lose your place in the video, but it is a minor problem.
- (2023-06-20) Marcin Romanowski: Stopped working completely.
- (2023-06-19) Yvant2000's Shitpost: Don't work anymore (for some reason)
- (2023-06-19) DarkoDesign: Not working... Unfortunately doesn't work with Chrome or Opera GX at the time of this review.
- (2023-06-17) Etienne Vanier: Stopped working very recently.
- (2023-06-16) Kinny Kinns: Stopped working after the latest update of my Chrome browser. Initially I uninstalled/reinstalled as this worked previously when I had the same issue, but not this time. Is this going to be fixed? or is it better to just uninstall!
- (2023-06-16) Islam Seyam: It doesn't work any more!! :/
- (2023-06-15) Matias Bruno: 2023, dejó de funcionar :p
- (2023-06-15) Vok prorok cyberVed: надо починить расширение чтоб работало у всех или еще лучше добавить функцию в сам ютуб чтоб только аудио поигровалось или еще лучше дополнительно к этому прочие возможности и настроки для экономии трафика (максимального экономии трафика )
- (2023-06-12) Beauvoir A. Ferril: Not working anymore. Sad. Chromium 101.0.4951.54
- (2023-06-11) emma wetson: not working at all
- (2023-06-10) ParkingLot Studio: Doesn't work anymore, video stream plays regardless. Firefox version doesn't play anything at all when enabled though.
- (2023-06-10) EmeraldEyex: No longer works
- (2023-06-08) KJ AP: Does not work.
- (2023-06-07) Rodrigo Vidal: Junio de 2023 y no esta funcionando
- (2023-06-06) K P: doesnt work anymore with chrome Version 114.0.5735.110
- (2023-06-05) Андрей Желавский: Перестало работать.
- (2023-05-29) The Non Smoker: Doesn't work
- (2023-05-18) User: работает
- (2023-05-02) Luke: Has some playback issues, but sort of does its job
- (2023-04-25) DeathXUnnat: works but stops autoforward and and other actions
- (2023-04-21) 逃亡的流浪者: only can use in video not in live
- (2023-03-11) Sunova: yeaah, this is what i need.
- (2023-03-02) Athithya rj: Still fetched the video on background, doesnt really serve its purpose.
- (2023-02-25) AGB DGB (Drew): I call BS. Extension is simply placing a static image over the video. Video is still being processed in the background.
- (2023-02-14) Pundisal: arigatou gozaimasu, u a legend
- (2023-02-01) Thomas Russell: Somehow my data consumption was bigger with this installed. Wish I had the other 1-star reviews before install to find out why...
- (2023-01-26) Daniel Ortiz: Todavia funciona perfectamente en 2023
- (2023-01-10) R Moerman: Worked for a few days, now the video does play while the "audio only" overlay is also visible. So it doesn't work...
Statistics
Installs
80,000
history
Category
Rating
3.9797 (691 votes)
Last update / version
2023-06-25 / 0.10.0
Listing languages
en