Tab Hoarders

Control Spotify From a Second Monitor While living with dozens of tabs

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. Your tab strip is a sea of favicons.

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 Tab Hoarders

Your tab strip is a sea of favicons.

The problem: The music tab drowns among them.

The fix: Let the popup find the Web Player tab for you.

🚀 Try It in Three Steps

  1. Move the Spotify tab to a second window or monitor.
  2. Pin the extension on your main window.
  3. Control playback from the popup or with the shortcuts.

✨ What You Get

  • Four default hotkeys: Shift+Alt+Up toggles play and pause, Right skips, Left goes back and Down pauses only.
  • Floating mini-player: Popup with play, pause, next, previous, shuffle, repeat, seek and a Liked Songs toggle.
  • Shortcut profiles: Standard, one-handed WASD, compact Alt+arrows and function-key presets.
TaskSwitching tabsSpotify-Web Playback Controller
ScopeAny app, any tabSpotify Web Player (open.spotify.com) only
PrivacyDepends on the toolNo credentials collected, local analytics
Liking a songOpen the tab, click the heartTap the heart in the popup or press L
Volume changeOpen the tab, drag a sliderScroll the mouse wheel over the popup

Note: it works with the Spotify Web Player at open.spotify.com only, and does not control the desktop app.

📸 See It in Action

Spotify-Web Playback Controller mini-player

Mini-Player

Spotify-Web Playback Controller dashboard

Dashboard

Spotify-Web Playback Controller keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts

Control Spotify Without Leaving Your Work

Global-capable hotkeys, a mini-player and local-only analytics for the Spotify Web Player.

Get Extension on Chrome Store

❓ 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 living with dozens of tabs. Let the popup find the Web Player tab for you.