Adds the following default keyboard shortcuts to https://open.spotify.com:
- Play/Pause media key: play, pause – opens a Spotify tab Spotify if necessary!
- Previous media key: previous track
- Next media key: next track
There is no default shortcut, but you can also bind keys for:
- Navigating to the home page or the search page – opens a Spotify tab if necessary!
- Toggle shuffle
- Toggle repeat (single song, whole playlist, disabled)
- Toggle song like (since 2024, requires focusing the browser tab)
- Toggle showing the queue sidebar
- Toggle showing "now playing" sidebar
- Toggle showing lyrics
- Increase, decrease & mute volume
- Seek backward & forward in both songs (±5 seconds) and podcasts (±15 seconds)
You can customize these shortcuts and make them global hotkeys (not just while displaying Spotify) by opening chrome://extensions/shortcuts or clicking the extension icon.
Warning: Chrome/Chromium is known to not correctly register hotkeys after you've changed them in chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Please restart your browser by visiting chrome://restart after changes to shortcuts/hotkeys.
This extension relies on the HTML/CSS structure of the website. Spotify might break it by changing their frontend.
The code is short and simple.
MIT.
I'd like to thank GitHub users:
- https://github.com/Architectuur for making me aware of the Podcast seek buttons
- https://github.com/CyanSlinky for suggesting volume shortcuts in issue #12
- https://github.com/frypf for the non-trivial improvments implemented in pull-request #15
- https://github.com/jsauder2 for reporting issue #7
- https://github.com/kumaxim for contributing a fix
- https://github.com/mmeowmeow for providing the fix to issue #16
- https://github.com/msp26 for reporting issue #3
- https://github.com/neviln for suggesting generalized seek shortcuts (not just podcasts) in issue #13
- https://github.com/shie1d3d for providing valuable data to fix issue #10
- https://github.com/smurfvindaloo for reporting issue #16