Spotify Sleep Timer for Software Developers
Quick timers for 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes with a live countdown.
💡 Overview
Some music is meant to end on its own. You live in an editor, a terminal and a browser full of docs, and every context switch costs you the mental stack you just built.
The smart background sleep timer offers quick presets of 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. A live countdown badge shows time remaining, and the timer runs on background alarms, so it keeps counting after you close the popup. When time is up, playback pauses automatically.
🧭 A Day of Software Developers
You live in an editor, a terminal and a browser full of docs, and every context switch costs you the mental stack you just built.
The problem: Reaching for the Spotify tab mid-debug means leaving the stack trace you were reading.
The fix: Bind play/pause to a shortcut you can hit with your left hand while your right stays on the mouse or trackpad.
🚀 Try It in Three Steps
- Open the popup and choose a sleep timer preset.
- Watch the countdown badge for the time remaining.
- Let playback pause itself when the timer ends.
✨ What You Get
- Sleep timer: Presets of 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes with a live countdown that auto-pauses playback.
- Mouse-wheel volume: Scroll over the player for fine volume steps, plus one-tap mute memory.
- Floating mini-player: Popup with play, pause, next, previous, shuffle, repeat, seek and a Liked Songs toggle.
| 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 |
| Privacy | Depends on the tool | No credentials collected, local analytics |
| 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
Quick presets of 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes.
Yes. It runs on background alarms and pauses playback when it finishes.
It can be if you spend your day coding. Bind play/pause to a shortcut you can hit with your left hand while your right stays on the mouse or trackpad.