Control Spotify From a Second Monitor While researching crypto
Park the Web Player on one screen and drive it from the other.
💡 Overview
A second screen is a luxury, until it fills with windows. Charts, forums and block explorers multiply tabs quickly.
Because the extension talks to the Web Player tab wherever it lives, you can leave it on another monitor, or even in another Chrome window, and still control it from the popup or by hotkey. Your main window stays untouched.
🧭 A Day of Crypto Researchers
Charts, forums and block explorers multiply tabs quickly.
The problem: Your music tab gets buried under the latest threads.
The fix: Pin the extension so the popup is one click away no matter how many tabs you open.
🚀 Try It in Three Steps
- Move the Spotify tab to a second window or monitor.
- Pin the extension on your main window.
- Control playback from the popup or with the shortcuts.
✨ 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.
- Device quick-switcher: One click to the Spotify Connect device drawer from the mini-player header.
| Task | Switching tabs | Spotify-Web Playback Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Liking a song | Open the tab, click the heart | Tap the heart in the popup or press L |
| Focus impact | Context switch every time | Your work window keeps focus |
| Pausing music | Find the tab, click pause, return | One keystroke |
| Scope | Any app, any tab | Spotify Web Player (open.spotify.com) only |
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. It just needs to be open in Chrome.
The extension targets the Web Player tab at open.spotify.com, wherever it is open in Chrome.
It can be if you spend your day researching crypto. Pin the extension so the popup is one click away no matter how many tabs you open.