Hotkeys for YouTube Music™

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Hotkeys for YouTube Music! Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, stop, skip and go back on the YouTube Music™ website.…

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Hotkeys for YouTube Music!

Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, stop, skip and go back on the YouTube Music™ website. The hotkeys work while you are in other programs too.

This is for the newly launched https://music.youtube.com

Keys can be rebound by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts in chrome's address bar.

YouTube Music is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

Latest reviews

Luca Hofstee 2023-07-16: i enjoy this a lot. 1 thing: can you make a other one that works for just youtube. i listen to a lot of podcasts and they are not on youtube music.
Marcos Rodríguez Ovares 2023-06-14: works perfect!
Chairzarge 2023-03-24: youtube.com play/pause is interfered by this extension, it should only ever do anything in music.youtube.com.
Necip A. 2023-03-19: Is there any way to work on all websites? Right now, it is only working on Youtube music.
Roland de G 2023-02-01: It is a good app, but unfortunately often the quick keys on the keyboard for next/previous/play/pause don't work anymore, only the volume still works. This seems to happen after the system has been in sleep mode I think. A reboot is required before it works again. If this is fixed, it will be all good.
Eaelast 2023-01-10: Great app! But one thing the volume down hotkey doesn't work, it shows its going down but the volume is still the same. Edit: Actually it does work, i just have to trigger the volume down hotkey to what i want, then click the volume up hotkey once and it will lower.
Mau 2022-12-21: My shortcuts for the past 15 years have been Ctrl+Shift+F7 to Play/Pause, with this extension I have to either use Ctrl OR Alt and a letter, I can't use the function keys, which I could use with the late GPM extension.
Anthony Spade 2022-05-18: Great extension that provides better support for YTM. I'd also like it if you could assign a hotkey for shuffle and repeat.
Tony Jobson 2022-05-11: Love this! thank you! can have media keys turned off for chrome as a whole so YT videos don't get messed up when i play / pause music but can still control the YT music app like a proper media player.
Shane Reddy 2022-03-28: This extension is great, love it! The latest Chrome update Version 99.0.4844.84 has broken it. This update has broken a number of plugins as well as the latest update introduces certificate signing. Any update is required on the plugin. Thanks again for the great plugin.
Softhaze 2022-02-04: Great job, really helpful. It works even outside Chrome just fine. Thanks!
Антон «DNFMB» Лялін 2021-08-07: Отличное приложение!
Eddie 2021-07-30: It just works, even with chrome app for youtube music. FYI, you have to restart both browser and the app for it to work.
Dan Hargest 2021-05-21: SO happy I found this. Love the global keyboard shortcuts. Happy to donate $5. Note that you have to restart Chrome after installing.
jorus 2021-05-01: Works perfectly as intended. Google should be paying you to do this for them, seriously.
Valentino Viscazo 2021-04-04: All buttons works but when I pause the music it auto resumes after a few seconds, only way to stop music is closing the tab or deleting the extension, It's sad cause I've been looking for this for a long time and I don't know why it does that to me
EC 2021-04-02: So far, and I installed this about 1.5 minutes ago, it is flawless. A single reload and Logitech G613 has full media key control over the installed YouTube Music App for Chrome on Windows 10, to be silly stoopid specific and all.
Aleksandr Dmitriev 2021-03-18: thx
Jason Lines 2021-02-17: Thanks - very useful and it just works (I have YT Music installed as a desktop app - needed a restart to make it work but all good after that)
Innomen 2021-01-23: No longer working as far as I can tell. If there's a procedure for making it work it needs better documentation. Also, no shortcuts for Thumb up/down. Which to me should have been higher priority than volume control.
Abdullah dicky S 2021-01-08: not works on brave browser
ян табакин 2020-12-23: doesn't work on Lenovo ideapad 330, please fix.
Jeremy Walker 2020-11-28: Didn't work
Troy David Cook 2020-11-19: Thank god! Play music just went away and my keyboard just stopped working for music controls. Big thanks!!
Sohail Baregzai 2020-11-11: Works exactly as described. Would be nice if there were more input options. Maybe one for each shortcut on the Youtube Music website? ( You can see those using Shift + / )
ryland davis 2020-11-02: This shouldn't need to exist google...
David Powers 2020-10-31: Works wonderfully. Finally able to use Youtube music properly without having to click on the tab Every. Single. Time. Thank you for this!
cherixberry 2020-10-26: Refresh the page after installing. I was considering switching to other music apps after GPM ended because of this problem, thankfully this extension just saved me hours and hours of rebuilding my music library on another platform just to have play/pause buttons!
Robert King 2020-10-08: Works perfectly! Again, a real shame Google didn't make this work natively.
Jon Tice 2020-10-07: Just what I was looking for. Like others mentioned, I had to restart chrome for it to function correctly.
Назар Мельник 2020-09-23: Work amazing on macbook 15" 2019!
Thad Williams 2020-09-16: Note, if you already have ytmusic open, you'll need to refresh that tab to get this to work. After that, it seems to work just fine. Simple.
Austin Hodges 2020-09-14: Wow. Another extension that gives Youtube Music missing basic functionality. I think I have more extensions than YoutubeMusic has in code. Thank you for making a sh*tty service (YTM) bearable.
Mykola Grytsenko 2020-09-09: It's not clear how to activate it. Not user-friendly at all.
Cameron Harr 2020-09-01: Can you make the keys customizable? Thanks for the plug-in! Unfortunately, my work KB doesn't have media keys, so if you could allow customizable key combinations like the GPM extension, that would be perfect.
Ethan Wells 2020-08-26: Thank you so much
Navarr Barnier 2020-08-12: Love it! Do wish it had keybinds for thumbs-up/down though
Christian Gravemaker 2020-08-11: Tipped the YT Music team several times about them needing to support hot keys. And you just fixed it with an extension. Works great!
Ryan Plate 2020-08-09: Oh thank goodness! Was getting really tired of Chrome seemingly linking keyboard media keys to a random tab and having to find which one is playing audio... Kudos to you, PaulHansen. Boo Google - poor implementation.
Luke Mason 2020-08-07: Works great on Chrome on macos 10.15.6
Matthew Kennedy 2020-08-05: Works great with the media keys on my Mac
Jayden Blain 2020-08-04: recent chrome update made media keys stop working, this fixed it. it even works while in a game so this is amazing.
Moises-D Figueroa-Jr. 2020-08-01: Awesome dude!
Mike Pope 2020-07-16: Thank you for this!!! Such a shame Google couldn't setup media keys to have this work natively.
Matt J 2020-07-14: This makes YouTube music usable finally, thank you so much.
Bill Riess 2020-07-14: Perfect!
Josiah Blouin 2020-07-11: You sir, are a hero! Thank you for doing what Google did with Google Play Music, but can't seem to on YouTube Music.
Brad Jodoin 2020-07-10: Thank goodness for this plugin. I don't see how Google expects people to move from GPM to YTM without the functionality provided by this extension.
Vasyl Boroviak 2020-07-08: Marvellous! :) Thanks mate
Chris Reynolds 2020-07-01: 💥 BOOM! Thank you! Even works with the YouTube Music chrome desktop app.

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