Speed Up or Slow Down Spotify Playback While doing SEO audits
Rate control from 0.5x to 2.0x that persists across tracks.
💡 Overview
Spoken content rarely suits normal speed. Crawlers, spreadsheets and search results fill your tabs.
Playback rate runs from 0.5x to 2.0x, with presets at 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x and 2.0x. The extension locks the rate so it persists as tracks change, rather than snapping back to normal every time a new item starts. That matters for podcasts and audiobooks, and can be fun for slowing music down to learn a part.
🧭 A Day of SEO Specialists
Crawlers, spreadsheets and search results fill your tabs.
The problem: Dozens of tabs of search results hide a single music tab.
The fix: Rely on the popup to find the Web Player instead of digging through your tab strip.
🚀 Try It in Three Steps
- Open the popup and pick a speed preset.
- Choose 1.25x or 1.5x for podcasts, or 0.5x to study a passage slowly.
- Return to 1.0x with one tap when you want normal speed.
✨ What You Get
- Playback speed 0.5x to 2.0x: Presets at 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x and 2.0x, locked across track changes.
- Four default hotkeys: Shift+Alt+Up toggles play and pause, Right skips, Left goes back and Down pauses only.
- Sleep timer: Presets of 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes with a live countdown that auto-pauses playback.
| Task | Switching tabs | Spotify-Web Playback Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Any app, any tab | Spotify Web Player (open.spotify.com) only |
| Resource use | A full tab in the foreground | Observer-based, near-zero overhead |
| Pausing music | Find the tab, click pause, return | One keystroke |
| Skipping a track | Switch window, click next, switch back | Shift+Alt+Right from any window |
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
From 0.5x to 2.0x, with presets for 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x and 2.0x.
No. The extension locks the playback rate so it persists across song transitions.
It can be if you spend your day doing SEO audits. Rely on the popup to find the Web Player instead of digging through your tab strip.