YouTube Music Hotkeys

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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Use keyboard shortcuts to control YouTube Music

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YouTube Music Hotkeys
Description from store

This browser extension lets you control background playback of YouTube Music (previously known as Google Music) without switching tabs. That is all.

Features:

browser action button
left click toggles playback, context click displays more options
open and pin YouTube Music if it is not open yet
toggle playback: Ctrl+Shift+8
previous song: Ctrl+Shift+9
next song: Ctrl+Shift+0
autoplay when &autoplay=true is found in URL

One can customize default shortcuts via chrome://extensions/configure

Latest reviews

Mark Dodsworth 2025-10-02

Works perfectly, wish we could pressure Google to add volume up and down as well.

IMTIAJ SIFAT 2025-09-14

works perfectly. Wish there are more controls like volume up and down etc

Zack 2025-09-03

works perfectly as intended. thank you!

Alex John 2024-11-11

Works perfectly

plmch 2024-11-08

Can you add just youtube.com?

David Meredith 2024-04-29

Should be part of YT Music already, but thank you so much for providing this functionality!

TheWitness 2023-01-06

App working while gaming

TheWitness 2023-01-06

App working while gaming

Frida Cuéllar 2022-03-10

The best ever!!! It works perfectly with YouTube Musica, even if chrome or yt is minimized, I love it

Frida Cuéllar 2022-03-10

The best ever!!! It works perfectly with YouTube Musica, even if chrome or yt is minimized, I love it

Mireya Ruiz 2020-04-09

love it stores my favorite music for me

Mireya Ruiz 2020-04-09

love it stores my favorite music for me

Mark Bulatenko 2020-01-04

This Extension just works as expected.

Mark Bulatenko 2020-01-04

This Extension just works as expected.

Юрий Шведов 2019-11-28

Glitches appeared on Chromium 78.0.3904.108 on Ubuntu 19.10. In several seconds after pausing, playing continues itself. UPD. Sorry, new ubuntu issue.

Юрий Шведов 2019-11-28

Glitches appeared on Chromium 78.0.3904.108 on Ubuntu 19.10. In several seconds after pausing, playing continues itself. UPD. Sorry, new ubuntu issue.

jetpackman 150 2019-10-15

I have been looking for something like this, for days. It works wonderfully. Thank you!

jetpackman 150 2019-10-15

I have been looking for something like this, for days. It works wonderfully. Thank you!

Jean Francois Poulin 2018-04-30

Works beautifully. Should be a built-in feature. Glad someone put the work into making this available in Chrome.

Jean Francois Poulin 2018-04-30

Works beautifully. Should be a built-in feature. Glad someone put the work into making this available in Chrome.

Єгор Талдикін 2018-02-21

It works!

Єгор Талдикін 2018-02-21

It works!

Statistics

Installs
1,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Rating
4.9 (20 votes)
Last update
2025-07-16
Version 3.0.0
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