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Reviews for YouTube Music Hotkeys

YouTube Music Hotkeys by Marcin Rataj

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5 reviews
  • by Yoshimano, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14468385, 5 years ago
    Very simple plugin that does a good job asking for minimal permissions. The keyboard based playback control is kinda weird - and isn't fully compatible with my keyboard media keys (it plays/pauses but won't respect the track jump keys), but is still pretty nice.
  • by dpq06, 5 years ago
    Hotkeys don't work unless Firefox is the active window, so it's not useful if I'm using another program. I'm not sure if that's meant to be possible with this but the description says "lets you control background playback".

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Background playback means "background tab". Firefox does not provide API for setting Global shortcuts (that work when browser window is not focused) yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795
  • by Maarten Ronteltap, 6 years ago
    Hey Marcin!
    1) Thanks for the update, I installed it and restarted my Firefox, but...it still doesn't work! It still behaves the same way..."MediaPrevTrack" and "MediaNextTrack" are still just playing/pausing the song instead of going to the previous track or next track. I am using Firefox 66.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 10 Home (version 1803). This is the type of laptop that I am using: https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-envy-15-aq100-x360-convertible-pc/12499186/document/c05270626
    Let me know if I can help you with anything to get this fixed!
    2) Thanks for the suggestion, I have voted for this bug on the bugzilla site!

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    It looks that "MediaPrevTrack" and "MediaNextTrack" playing/pausing are a bug in Firefox:
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251795#c13
    https://github.com/lidel/google-music-hotkeys/issues/12
  • by Firefox user 12976263, 7 years ago
    Works very well !!!
    For those who want to use keyboard media keys for control, i've done a little AutoHotkey script:

    ;next song
    Media_Next::
    IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
    WinActivate
    Send !+0
    return

    ;previous song
    Media_Prev::
    IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
    WinActivate
    Send !+9
    return

    ;play/pause
    Media_Play_Pause::
    IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
    WinActivate
    Send !+8
    return

    You're welcome :)

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thank you! Great workaround while we wait for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384 :)