Hotkeys for YouTube Music™
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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-17.
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Hotkeys for YouTube Music! Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, stop, skip, go back, like and dislike on the YouTube…
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Hotkeys for YouTube Music!
Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, stop, skip, go back, like and dislike on the YouTube Music™ website. The hotkeys work while you are in other programs too.
This is for the recently launched https://music.youtube.com
Keys can be rebound by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts in chrome's address bar.
If it isn't working, try reloading the player using F5, disable any other extensions and close any other music programs etc. and try restarting your PC if it continues.
If this helps you, consider donating: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=NGT2AJ6WXEXEQ I make no money from this otherwise.
YouTube Music is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
Latest reviews
- Luca Hofstee
- 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
- works perfect!
- Chairzarge
- youtube.com play/pause is interfered by this extension, it should only ever do anything in music.youtube.com.
- Necip A.
- Is there any way to work on all websites? Right now, it is only working on Youtube music.
- Roland de G
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Great job, really helpful. It works even outside Chrome just fine. Thanks!
- Антон «DNFMB» Лялін
- Отличное приложение!
- Eddie
- 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
- SO happy I found this. Love the global keyboard shortcuts. Happy to donate $5. Note that you have to restart Chrome after installing.
- jorus
- Works perfectly as intended. Google should be paying you to do this for them, seriously.
- Valentino Viscazo
- 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
- 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
- thx
- Jason Lines
- 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
- 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
- not works on brave browser
- ян табакин
- doesn't work on Lenovo ideapad 330, please fix.
- Jeremy Walker
- Didn't work
- Troy David Cook
- Thank god! Play music just went away and my keyboard just stopped working for music controls. Big thanks!!
- Sohail Baregzai
- 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
- This shouldn't need to exist google...
- David Powers
- Works wonderfully. Finally able to use Youtube music properly without having to click on the tab Every. Single. Time. Thank you for this!
- cherixberry
- 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
- Works perfectly! Again, a real shame Google didn't make this work natively.
- Jon Tice
- Just what I was looking for. Like others mentioned, I had to restart chrome for it to function correctly.
- Назар Мельник
- Work amazing on macbook 15" 2019!
- Thad Williams
- 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
- 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
- It's not clear how to activate it. Not user-friendly at all.
- Cameron Harr
- 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
- Thank you so much
- Navarr Barnier
- Love it! Do wish it had keybinds for thumbs-up/down though
- Christian Gravemaker
- 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
- 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
- Works great on Chrome on macos 10.15.6
- Matthew Kennedy
- Works great with the media keys on my Mac
- Jayden Blain
- 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.
- Awesome dude!
- Mike Pope
- Thank you for this!!! Such a shame Google couldn't setup media keys to have this work natively.
- Matt J
- This makes YouTube music usable finally, thank you so much.
- Bill Riess
- Perfect!
- Josiah Blouin
- 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
- 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
- Marvellous! :) Thanks mate
- Chris Reynolds
- 💥 BOOM! Thank you! Even works with the YouTube Music chrome desktop app.