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How to control Spotify web player with your keyboard

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But you can get around this limitation by installing the Musicity Music Player Chrome extension. It also works in other browsers that support Chrome extensions, such as Opera with the Download Chrome Extension.

How to control Spotify web player with your keyboard

This extension provides nine different playback keyboard shortcuts:

  1. Next hint
  2. Toggle Play / Pause
  3. Previous track
  4. Repeat repeat
  5. Toggle Shuffle
  6. Toggle Thumbs Up
  7. Toggle Thumbs Down
  8. Toasted bread
  9. Activate extension

These keyboard shortcuts can be set as In chrome (meaning they will only work if Chrome is your current window) or Global (meaning they work even when your browser is not in focus). In short, you can now control Spotify web playback even when Chrome is minimized!

Other nifty features of Musicality include toast notifications on song change and latest FM scrobbling. And Musicality also works with other web players, including Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, Pandora, and YouTube.

One extension to rule them all. Get it now.

Download - Musicality music player (free)

Do you prefer to use the Spotify web player or the desktop player? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!