To recreate:
Have Chrome open with extension enabled, not using any streaming service.
Open Spotify desktop client.
Notice that the Media Keys do not function.
Disable KeySocket Extension in Chrome - Media Keys work again in Spotify.

Perhaps KeySocket can unhook the keypress events when there is no site open to receive the keypresses?

I believe it might be related to their switching to the new player.

Works perfectly when full Synology UI is opened (/webman/index.cgi), however if you open just the AudioStation app separately (/audio/index.cgi), the playback isn't controlled.

1. The Chrome web store is the main place to install but it has no documentation and doesn't point to this website.
2. Merge README Usage and Build sections. Both say the same: You need to Chrome extension and a daemon running on the same machine, with various ways to install the daemon.
3. Chrome extension install should say that once installed there should be a "Unsafe Script" icon in the URL when going to Google Music, Deezer... and user should click and allow:
4. Help users to make daemon run on startup.

I am not able to build this on mac. i get the following error:
error: icon file must exist: 'res/icon.icns'
The folder seems to be missing this icon file.

Bandcamp.com support would be great! I've been reading through their JS for the last hour or so but I haven't been able to tap into it. The most reliable method seems to be just simulating clicks on the play/pause and next/previous elements on the page:

// Click play / pause
document.querySelector('.playbutton').click()

// Click next / previous
document.querySelector('.nextbutton').click()
document.querySelector('. prevbutton').click()

This works fine on album pages (e.g. https://cascaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/1001-nights-ep) but doesn't work well on any other page as .playbutton either doesn't exist or can match more than one element.

On Tidal, the plugin seems to work occasionally but does not work for the majority of the time. No response from any hotkeys. It does work fine on youtube, google music, and anything else i tried..

This may be outside of the scope, but would it be possible that when I press the stop button and a website doesnt support the stop functionality that the pause button is pressed in place of stop but only if music is playing?

so i guess the logic would be something like this;
if (music-is-playing = false) stop does nothing, or does it's standard stop input
if (music-is-playing = true) stop button will trigger pause input
from there it can get fancy such as only do this behavior on websites that don't have stop functionality (in my experience most dont have stop) if that's something that needs to happen.

If this is possible, sweet! I'd love to see it happen! If not, drats, thanks for reading, and go ahead and close this.

Hi, I am trying to use it with the spotify web player that has been update in the latest days. However it seems that it didn't work.
Thank you very much.

See the following thread:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rdio-api/Va4uJ4Jj-sc

I've installed the python app, and the extension, but the best I can get for a pause is a slight stutter. I think the issue is the simulateClick function, and when I run it in the dev tools' console, it doesn't work. I've worked out a solution that works on my solution (it involves the click() event on the element retrieved from document.querySelector(). I'm not quite sure how to edit the extension to actually run it, so I'm working on that.

1. It's not possible to set bindings using media keys in Logitech K360.
2. Setting a typical shortcut like Ctrl+L for "Play/Stop active audio" is possible, yet it doesn't work. Tested on youtube.com.

PC: Chrome 37.0.2062.103m under W7 Ultimate x64.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minisub/jccdpflnecheidefpofmlblgebobbloc

I upgraded to the latest beta build of Chrome today and started seeing this error in the console:

Connecting to a non-secure WebSocket server from a secure origin is deprecated. shared.js:8
keysocket: connecting to WS shared.js:7
Connecting to a non-secure WebSocket server from a secure origin is deprecated. shared.js:8
keysocket: WebSocket Error:
Event {clipboardData: undefined, cancelBubble: false, returnValue: true, srcElement: WebSocket, defaultPrevented: false…}
shared.js:16
keysocket: WS close
CloseEvent {reason: "", code: 1006, wasClean: false, clipboardData: undefined, cancelBubble: false…}

The Chrome web store is the main place to install but it lack of documentation and should clearly point to this website.

I didn't find where it's stored. Most important is to add in the description to come here to look for installation procedure.

Dear @borismus,

Thanks a lot for this extension. I was looking for a way to control YouTube using the media keys. I couldn't find any information in the readme whether this extension is OS-specific.

More specifically, does it support Linux?

Thankfully,

Robert

I can stop/start music on my Synology Audio Station with play/pause key on my mac keyboard, before installing the plugin it just opened iTunes on my computer when pressing the play/pause key, all good. However, it doesn't seem to bind to the play/pause button on my headphones, pressing it still starts iTunes instead of starting/stopping the music.

When running keysocket.py:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "keysocket.py", line 180, in <module>
    main()
  File "keysocket.py", line 162, in main
    factory = BroadcastServerFactory('ws://localhost:1337')
  File "keysocket.py", line 87, in __init__
    self.keys_listener = DBusMediaKeyListener(callback=self._onMediaKeyEvent)
  File "keysocket.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.app, 0, dbus_interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys

Using Awesome tiling manager with Gnome on Ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS.

• dbus 1.4.18

I sometimes listen music on the Spotify app that handle the multimedia keys natively and sometimes on Soundcloud for which I use Key Socket.
Key Socket works great for Soundcloud, it prevent multimedia keys to reach Spotify and handle it well.

But it would be great to have the option to setup a shortcut to turn Key Socket ON/OFF like AddblockPlus does for instance, because not the only option is going in the extensions option of chrome and deactivating the extension.

Thanks for this extension!

The YT specific functions don't seem to be defined when it uses HTML5 <video>. I tried this instead which works:

if(document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0]) {
    var video = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];
    var isVideoPaused = video.paused;
    var playVideo = function() { video.play(); };
    var pauseVideo = function() { video.pause(); };
} else {
    var video = document.getElementById('movie_player');
    var isVideoPaused = (video.getPlayerState() === 2);
    var playVideo = function() { video.playVideo(); };
    var pauseVideo = function() { video.pauseVideo(); };
}

if(isVideoPaused)
    playVideo();
else
    pauseVideo();

chrome version 35.0.1916.86 beta-m seems to have support built in for media keys, at least on Google Music site. I have not tested other sites.

Which now conflicts with keysocket as it will trigger the event to the site twice. Once from chrome, and once from keysocket.

[Ubuntu 14.04 pre]

When I restart chrome and start the Go keyserver from the terminals, it works. If I then restart the keyserver, it still tries to send events but the extension doesn't do anything. Not sure if it can't connect to the extension, there are no errors logged.

Hello, I like your extension and will like to add support for two Indian Music websites. I want to know that can I create a pull request for Indian music websites too ?

I would suggest using the GrooveShark API instead of the current hack.

http://grooveshark.com/GroovesharkAPI.html

PlayPause key doensn't work with Jamstash (haven't tried any other clients).

Next/Prev do.

Using Chromium 38.0.2125.111, archlinux 3.17.2-1-ARCH

Not sure this is the right place to post this.

When running the Windows version of KeySocket, whenever I press an accent key (like ~ or ' ) I get two characters instead of one (~~ instead of ~). This is messing up my ability to type in Portuguese, because the accents cannot be assigned to vowels (~a results in ã).

the element ID for the play / pause buttons are no longer in place. If I add an ID manually to the page using the inspector and change the js as so it works

var connection = null;
var isConnected = false;

function controlJamstash(key) {
if(key === PREV) {
//var prevButton = document.getElementById('PreviousTrack');
var prevButton = document.querySelector('#PreviousTrack');
simulateClick(prevButton);
} else if(key === NEXT) {
var nextButton = document.getElementById('NextTrack');
simulateClick(nextButton);
} else if(key === PLAY) {
var isPlaying = document.querySelector('a.button.PlayTrack').style.display === 'none';
var playPauseButton = null;
if(isPlaying) {
playPauseButton = document.getElementById('TheEffingButton');
//playPauseButton = document.querySelector('a.button.PlayTrack')
} else {
playPauseButton = document.querySelector('.PauseTrack')
//playPauseButton = document.getElementById('PlayTrack');
}
simulateClick(playPauseButton);
}
}

reconnect(controlJamstash, connection, isConnected);

I also tried to adjust this using the querySelector fn to target the buttons by their existing class names something derails there. works by ID, fails by class. I'll dig further but I thought maybe someone might see the issue putting their eyes to this. Also note that the prev/next track buttons (by id with existing ID attributes on the elements) still work.

The documentation says how to start the daemon but it should also say how to make it actually a daemon/service that runs automatically or give pointers.

Currently forced to use this extension from my git clone b/c the Chrome store version doesn't have the updated Youtube CSS selectors.

Hi there,

It was also mentioned in your Chrome extension site at review panel, and I just wanted to remind it in here aswell.

Instead of ytp-button-play it became ytp-play-button and this is true for all other buttons (prev, next..)

I've manually changed those values to test it and I can confirm it works, it just needs an update!

Since the last update of the playlist view you must use

'prev-playlist-list-item' and 'next-playlist-list-item'

for the class names.

I attempted to find a fix and submit but wasn't able to figure it out. One issue for sure is the manifest has an older URL, and after updating this I can see the keys being sent to the console, but they don't seem to have any effect, and I'm not sure why.

This extension should support only the most popular players, and support them reliably.

There are many players currently supported that are like #300,000 on alexa.com. For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/phishtracks.com.

For less popular sites like these, propose a spec along the lines of http://smus.com/remote-controls-web-media/. The extension can parse the page for these salient control elements and synthesize click events on them.

Maybe it is good idea use Native Client. (https://developers.google.com/native-client)
But I don't know C/C++.

What do you say?

On Chrome 36 (Linux, but probably doesn't matter), KeySocket is broken by new security limitations:

[blocked] The page at 'https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=1#/all' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'ws://localhost:1337/': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

It's possible that just changing the scheme to "wss" will solve this, but I don't know if all of the server implementations which KeySocket uses automatically support secure connections.

There is an old version 0.6.1 of the extension in Chrome Webstore while the current is 0.7.0.
Please update it.

Hi there, I'm using Jamstash.com with my personal subsonic server.
The extension is working for the previous and next song button and for what I can tell it's detecting the play/pause button but it's not working.
This is a screenshot of the console after pressing the play/pause button, it's detected but an error occurs: http://puu.sh/gCKVc/ea61e95f81.png

Thanks in advance :)

Just throwing this out there:

Today I found out there's a D-Bus standard for mediaplayer control, it's at http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/ . It allows bidirectional information flow, keys in one direction and song metadata in the other, so it gives you full desktop integration on Gnome and KDE.

I'm using Key Socket in OS X 10.8.3 and every time I press the play button iTunes is launched, if I press the previous or next the same action is performed in iTunes.

Could you include any open source license into repository? Without implicit defined license your code is covered by copyright low. If you do not want to forbid code/extension reproduction, distribution, or creation of derivative works from your code, you should include a license. Otherwise, you can do nothing, it's forbidden by copyright low by default.

In the README, it is stated:

python setup.py py2app -A

but this builds an app with " in place " files which is not suitable for distribution.

I want to use keysocket with firefox. Is it possible?

https://play.pocketcasts.com/web

When user have several opened tabs with supported music sites (i.e he listen to music on music.yandex.ru and have opened vk.com), message sent to all tabs. And when I want to start playing at music.yandex.ru, actually it starts on both sites.

I have few thoughts regarding this problem. We can pass callback as third argument to chrome.tabs.sendMessage in this loop and break it when music tab found. It is simple option. More complex option is control audio events somehow and order tabs by last audio events. I.e. when user starts audio player on music.yandex.ru it becomes more prioritized tab and then we sendMessage only to this tab. What do you think? I'm not sure, can we control audio events on page from extension? Any thoughts?

Hi,

I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add support for 8tracks?

Thanks.

Every button does the task twice. Also, the "previous" button goes to the next song.

Youtube player is upgrade recently.

I read through the manifest and it seems like the permissions are specific enough that I would use this extension. However, when I install from the chrome webstore I get a permission prompt that looks like this:

I get "11-08-08 11:19:11 AM [0x0-0x1bf1bf].org.pythonmac.unspecified.KeySocket[7578] IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/smus/Projects/keysocket/server/keysocket.py'"
in the console window.