Description
Control Google Music, Pandora, and Spotify with a popup and keyboard shortcuts.
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Ranking Summary
Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Play" Keyword
"Music" Keyword
"Permissions" Keyword
"Permission" Keyword
Review Summary
MiniPlay excels as a simple, effective controller for Google Play Music, offering clean design, keyboard shortcuts, and good notification integration. However, it struggles with support for other popular music services such as Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube Music, with noted bugs like failure to detect music tabs or refresh notifications. Users appreciate its functionality for Google Play Music but desire broader compatibility and additional features like lyrics and playlist management.
Pros
- Works well with Google Play Music
- Simple and clean design
- Provides convenient music control with keyboard shortcuts
- Supports notifications and integrates with desktop notifications
- Highly recommended by users familiar with Google Play Music
Cons
- Limited support for other services like Spotify, Pandora, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud
- Does not always refresh player/notifications properly with Spotify
- Lacks features such as lyrics display and adding/selecting playlists
- Music tab detection errors with some services
- UI issues like scrolling play status bar being hidden or cover art not loading
Permissions
This extension can:
- notifications
- storage
- tabs
- *://play.google.com/music*
- *://*.pandora.com/*
- *://songza.com/*
- *://play.spotify.com/*
Additional Information
0.7.3
March 16, 2021
0.92 MB
en-US
Developer Information
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