Log out of your Spotify account: Ctrl + Shift + W; Close the Spotify window: Alt + F4; How to use Spotify keyboard shortcuts on Mac © Proxima Studio/Shutterstock. Create a new playlist: Command + N. A Mega Spotify Setup Shortcut. There’s a 9-in-1 mega Spotify shortcut created by Reddit user u/CarlHauschke. It is the only shortcut that actually connects with the Spotify API. This allows the shortcut to do things like favoriting the current tack, adding a track to a playlist, searching for lyrics and so on. 28 time-saving Hotkeys for Spotify. Extensive, exportable, wiki-style reference lists for Keyboard Shortcuts/Hotkeys.
I don’t live in the US but I listen to music via Spotify’s web app when I’m writing or just browsing the net. I use the free ad-supported tier because I don’t need access to premium mobile features (podcasts FTW) and it’s better than blatant piracy.
Cool Tip: I use Hola Unblocker Chrome extension to mask my real location in Spotify’s web player. That’s also how I made the Spotify account.The reason I don’t use Spotify’s stellar Mac app is because every week or so I get kicked off for “not being in a supported country”. I need to reinstall the app and wait for the game of cat and mouse to begin again. So eventually I just gave up and settled on the web player. I don’t get support for plugins but that’s OK.
One thing I sorely miss on the Mac app is access to Mac’s built in Play/Pause, Next, and Previous keys. When you’re listening to music on Spotify/Pandora/Rdio on the web, the tab is usually in the background. I hate going hunting for it every time I need to pause playback.
Which is why I’m glad to share with you a simple Mac menubar utility that lets you control more than a dozen web based music/media player sites using your Mac’s media keys. All you need to do is use a keyboard shortcut to set the current tab as active and just like that Mac’s media keys will take over the tab’s playback.
How To Install BeardedSpice
Download the zipped file from the website, use Mac’s built in Archive Utility to unzip it, and drag the unzipped app to the Applications folder. The first time you open the app, Mac will give a default warning. Just click Open.
Hello YouTube: BeardedSpice supports video sites like YouTube and Vimeo as well with no issues in performance. Scroll to the last section for the entire list of supported services.Now you’ll see the BeardedSpice logo in the menubar. As the name suggests, the logo is a beard and a mustache.
How To Use And Configure BeardedSpice
Now that BeardedSpice is up and running, go to any of the supported web based media players. Click the menubar utility and you’ll see the media tab listed.
Click on a web page to activate it. A checkmark beside the selected site will show up.
Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts
To make the activation process for web based players as quick as possible, BeardedSpice supports keyboard shortcuts. The default shortcut to activate BeardedSpice is Cmd+F8. F8 is conveniently also the Play/Pause key.
But for some reason I found this shortcut to be buggy. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. Thankfully, you can change the keyboard shortcut.
Click the BeardedSpice menubar utility and go to Preferences. Here click on the space beside Set active tab and type in your preferred shortcut. I have mine set to Cmd+8 as it’s right below the Play/Pause button.
Enable/Disable Supported Services
From the same Preferences menu you can decide which web players you don’t want BeardedSpice to interact with.
Here’s the entire list of supported web players:
Keyboard Shortcuts For Spotify
- 8Tracks
- Amazon Music
- BandCamp
- BeatsMusic
- Bop.fm
- Google Music
- GrooveShark
- HypeMachine
- Last.fm
- Mixcloud
- Music Unlimited
- Pandora
- Rdio
- Shuffler.fm
- Slacker
- Songza
- SoundCloud
- Spotify (Web)
- Synology
- XboxMusic
- YouTube
- VK (“My Music” from vk.com)
- Vimeo
Where Do You Plan On Using BeardedSpice?
What services do you plan on using BeardedSpice with? Do you wish that it supported more players like Netflix.com? Let us know in the comments below.
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It may no longer have the back catalog of Taylor Swift, but Spotify remains one of the world’s most popular music streaming services.
Using Spotify on a Chromebook is easy thanks to the official, slick, and feature-packed Web Player. While it’s not as grand sounding as a native desktop app, the Spotify web player can be set to run in its own window to lend it the illusion of “app-iness”.
But maybe you want a bit more than the illusion of integration? Maybe you want to control playback using some keyboard hotkeys, even when Spotify itself is minimised in the background.
Well, you’re in luck.
Spotify Web Player Hotkey Extension
Spotify Web Player Hotkey is a nifty Chrome extension that lets you set up regular keyboard shortcuts to pause, play next and previous tracks in Spotify’s online app.
It defaults to the following key combos, all set to work when Chrome is in focus (i.e., you’re in a different tab):
- Alt + Shift + P — Play/Pause
- Alt + Shift + Period — Next Track
- Alt + Shift + Comma — Previous Track
These may not be quite to your tastes (or finger flexing abilities). The extension allows you to change them to a preferred combination of keys (so long as they don’t conflict with existing system functions, e.g., Ctrl + C).
Mac Hotkeys Pdf
To do this head to Extensions > Keyboard Shortcuts > Spotify Web Player Hotkeys and click in the box, press some keys and away you go.
If you’d like the keyboard shortcuts to work globally — meaning you can control playback while working in Microsoft Word or browsing photos in Pixsta, you can. But, again, pay attention to conflicts.
Spotify Play Pause Windows Hotkey
The extension is a free add-on and works exclusively with the Spotify Web Player available at play.spotify.com.
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