Are you tired or annoyed from switching windows in order to pause or skip a song?
Doesn't want to or lazy to install the extra official players to the system?
Or perhaps your keyboard doesn't have the handy media hotkeys?
Do you want to stay focused on your programming instead of those shortcomings above?
If yes, you are in luck!
This extension launches a Chrome/Chromium browser to the 4 popular music sites, and you can control the playback from within your favorite Visual Studio Code editor.
Extra use case - you could use this extension to follow programming tutorials on Youtube with the handy seek forward/backward key shortcuts.
lmptm.incognitoMode: Specify whether to launch the browser in incognito/private mode.
lmptm.startPages: Starting tabs.
lmptm.userData: Specify if the extension could store the browser's user data; if enabled, a user-data directory setting is required.
lmptm.userDataDirectory: Specify user data directory. This setting will be ignored if User Data setting is unchecked.
Known Issues
Does not work with Opera browser
Won't be able to log into YouTube and SoundCloud(email method)
Release Notes
3.0.0
Fix CSP, apply only for Youtube/YTmusic and Spotify
Improve treeview
Partial Chinese support
New logo
2.2.0
CSP bypass for Youtube and Youtube Music
2.1.0
Fix Spotify and YouTube Music for its UI changes
2.0.0
Fix Spotify bugs for its UI changes
Add treeview - so now the app can switch between tabs
The page has to be picked before being able to be used in the treeview
You can select the treeview items that have the play/pause icon
The emoji ⛏️ means the tab is currently picked
The first click switches the picked icon to the target tab, and the clicks that come after toggle the playing/paused status of the target tab media's playback
1.4.0
Add key shortcuts
Add seek 5s forward/backward for Youtube shortcuts