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Part of the research I do online, with Google Chrome, requires me to go to several sites including those who, for some dumb reason, think it's alright to hide the music player.
If I want to listen to music I can play my own and I usually am listening to something else when a random site starts playing random looped songs.
So, how can I find out which tab is playing music, and eventually mute it?
Renan
Posted 2012-04-19T19:19:07.130
Reputation: 431
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MuteTab Beta solved the problem for me.
Although this is not the best solution, since this is a beta version, the fixes available in this version will eventually get in the stable version so MuteTab will work again.
fmanco
Posted 2012-04-19T19:19:07.130
Reputation: 2 287
I don't extensively tested this extension, so please tell me if you have any problems since I'm also interested in an extension that works globally. – fmanco – 2012-06-25T11:34:42.613
1I've tested a little bit more, and with this version you can even play/pause execution of audio in sites like Youtube, or others that as some kind of playable audio or video. – fmanco – 2012-06-25T14:41:32.287
1I like how you can use the panic button and shut down whatever is playing. – Renan – 2012-06-25T21:09:25.483
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MuteTab is an extension for Chrome that detects which tab is playing music and allows you to mute them.
Marcus Farrington
Posted 2012-04-19T19:19:07.130
Reputation: 104
That's interesting except it doesn't work. I ran a test and it gave me seven different "possible sources" of twelve. It's also been reported to consume a ridiculously high amount of RAM - http://goo.gl/adegh
– Renan – 2012-04-20T17:53:58.277This is the link for it at the Chrome Web Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmkbaaijgpppbokgnhhoakihofedkgcc
Did it work for you? – Renan – 2012-04-20T22:51:04.973
> That's interesting except it doesn't work. I ran a test and it gave me seven different "possible sources" of twelve. @Rennan, so what's wrong with that, it's barely more than half of all tabs. :-D But seriously, I think it is just detecting if there are Flash, HTML5, Silverlight, or Java elements in the page. I'd have to check the source to be sure, but if it does, then of course it is going to give lots of false-positives. – Synetech – 2012-06-27T20:40:27.767
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I normally have numerous windows and tabs open and looking for a tab by the sound icon is a time consuming case of 'where is waldo'.
It's not a perfect solution but using the built in 'Task Manager' and sorting by 'Idle wakeups' column helps me find the culprit much quicker.
Daniel Sokolowski
Posted 2012-04-19T19:19:07.130
Reputation: 651
How to geek explains the
MuteTabusage may be it will helpful for you. – avirk – 2012-06-25T11:14:11.973@avirk MuteTab has already been posted as an answer and it only worked for me in a few cases. – Renan – 2012-06-25T11:15:55.557
That's why I just posted the explanation of that. I'll check out if I find anything better. – avirk – 2012-06-25T11:20:25.117
In which cases it doesn't work for you? You can also try out the music controller see if it help out.
– avirk – 2012-06-25T16:52:24.610Check out the sound on click too.
– avirk – 2012-06-25T17:48:42.220