Auto Pause Spotify When Playing Video/Audio
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This extension pauses Spotify when playing audio or video in another tab. Chrome 45+ only. Try shortcuts: Cmd+Shift+(8/9/0).
If you are a regular Spotify listener (on web, not via app), and wish that you could temporarily pause music while you listen to music or watch a video in another tab, this is the extension you want. While Spotify is playing, if you start watching a video or play any other audio in another chrome tab, this extension will automatically pause Spotify, and once the other tab stops making sound, it will restart the playback.
There are also 3 universal keyboard shortcuts (meaning they will work even if Chrome is not in focus, you can use while doing anything on your computer), Cmd+Shift+ (8/9/0) - give these a try to see what they do. (Ctrl for windows and linux.)
Enjoy!
Latest reviews
This extension is unfortunately not working for me at all. I really wish it would work! Any suggestions? I tried having open.spotify.com running and playing music while having youtube playing a video. Spotify does not stop and continues to play over the youtube video.
Doesn't work anymore, was working before. Please try to make a fix, thank you. Edit, Spotify design seems to have changed, here's a quick fix for the clicking part, it works with me ^^' document.querySelectorAll('.player-controls__buttons button')[1].click(); //prev document.querySelectorAll('.player-controls__buttons button')[2].click(); //play_toggle document.querySelectorAll('.player-controls__buttons button')[3].click(); // next
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does what its supposed to do. The lag does not matter to me all. I've been really wanting this since I'm doing a lot of recorded lectures and like to hear music when I pause to take notes. This eliminates a very tedious task from my studying.
Works great ! Very useful
Works beautifully. There's a slight delay between the when the video starts playing and when Spotify pauses, but it's not a problem at all.
Why didn't I think of searching for this before! May unpause while watching a video of the video has a silent part for too long though.
Nice one works exactly as describe.Can you add a function to autoplay spotify when open open.spotify.com site?
Works really well. There occasionally can be a small overlap with video and music audio but nothing that causes a problem.
Works as advertised. Properly pauses and unpauses Spotify in correlation to tab audio.
Well, I wrote this extension - so I have to give it 5 stars! Let me know if you run into any issues and I'll try to resolve them ASAP.
