Pausing Spotify while YouTube is playing and starting it when YouTube stops

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Kind of a random request, but something that would be cool nonetheless; would there be anyway I could make Spotify (and possibly iTunes etc.) pause when I start playing a YouTube video, and then start again once the video ends or I pause it?

Is there any software that would allow me to do this? Or a language that would be able to accomplish this?

64bit Windows 7

Sorry, should have mentioned. 64bit Windows 7 – Sam Jun 26 '12 at 12:23 — Sam, Jun 26 '12 at 12:23

Jared Sohn · Answer 1 · 2018-04-14T01:31:27.707

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I built mute.fm (http://www.mutefm.com/) to solve this problem. It works with iTunes, Spotify, and many other music players and will mute/pause it for YouTube or any other video or foreground sound.

edited Apr 14 '18 at 01:31

answered Aug 20 '13 at 19:38

Jared Sohn

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link broken @Jared_Sohn – Awesome_girl Apr 13 '18 at 21:13
link updated @Awesome_girl – Jared Sohn Apr 14 '18 at 01:31
Here is a link, for anyone who needs it. I was a big fan, can't say if the application still works on recent Windows 10 though: http://www.markmajor.com/external/mutefm/mutefm_setup_0_9_14%202014-09-02%20%28Free%29.exe – Openstar63 Aug 20 '20 at 09:27
any mac solutions? – John D Jul 23 '21 at 15:50
for mac: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic – Jared Sohn Jul 25 '21 at 18:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Haven't tested it, but I think it's doable.

First, add this wrapper to your spotify: https://github.com/johanlindquist/jahspotify. This will give you a REST interface to control playback.

Now, create a chrome (I assume that's what you're using. If not, there are probably similar options for other browsers as well) extension that works for everything on YouTube's domain and add this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/8152814/1456578. Change the code to pause/resume spotify when a certain event happens on YT player.

As I'm intrested in a solution myself as well, I'll probably try it out sometime soon and will then update this answer with the results. Will most likely create/use a lightweight node server to wrap Spotify instead, because Tomcat seems like an overkill and all you (I) actually need is the play/pause functionality.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 19:41

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Opera GX now has this feature. The built in Music Player, which supports Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music, automatically pauses the music when you start watching a video and then automatically resumes when you finish.

answered Apr 20 '21 at 19:41

David27

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 30 '23 at 22:46

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this python script works soo well on linux

https://gist.github.com/engelmarkus/fd81cd95775ffa365a58958e24829bd3

first make sure to install pulsectl pip install pulsectl

answered Aug 30 '23 at 22:46

Spidy

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Pausing Spotify while YouTube is playing and starting it when YouTube stops

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