Skip Songs Without Leaving Your Work While keeping a clean browser
Change tracks with a keystroke, not a window switch.
💡 Overview
A bad song at the wrong time is a small tax on concentration. Every extension should earn its place.
Next and previous track are bound to Shift+Alt+Right and Shift+Alt+Left by default. The extension passes the command to the Web Player in the background, so the song changes while your work window keeps focus. There is no flash of another tab and no lost cursor position.
🧭 A Day of Minimalist Browser Users
You keep few tabs and fewer extensions.
The problem: Every extension should earn its place.
The fix: Check the permissions: scripting, storage and alarms, plus open.spotify.com only.
🚀 Try It in Three Steps
- Press Shift+Alt+Right the moment a track stops helping.
- Press Shift+Alt+Left to jump back to the previous track.
- Use the popup if you want to see the track and artwork before choosing.
✨ What You Get
- Local focus analytics: Daily and weekly focus time, a seven-day chart and top artists and tracks, all stored on your device.
- Floating mini-player: Popup with play, pause, next, previous, shuffle, repeat, seek and a Liked Songs toggle.
- Zero-polling design: A MutationObserver updates the UI only when the page changes, keeping CPU and memory use low.
| Task | Switching tabs | Spotify-Web Playback Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Pausing music | Find the tab, click pause, return | One keystroke |
| Focus impact | Context switch every time | Your work window keeps focus |
| Volume change | Open the tab, drag a slider | Scroll the mouse wheel over the popup |
| Liking a song | Open the tab, click the heart | Tap the heart in the popup or press L |
Note: it works with the Spotify Web Player at open.spotify.com only, and does not control the desktop app.
📸 See It in Action
Mini-Player
Dashboard
Shortcuts
Control Spotify Without Leaving Your Work
Global-capable hotkeys, a mini-player and local-only analytics for the Spotify Web Player.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
No. The command runs in the background, so your active window stays exactly where it is.
Yes. Shift+Alt+Left is bound to the previous track by default.
It can be if you spend your day keeping a clean browser. Check the permissions: scripting, storage and alarms, plus open.spotify.com only.