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A comment on Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it cool?.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it c... by aegabriel on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @04:39PM (#8564425)
Streamkeys: http://www.streamkeys.com

It's a Google Chrome extension that lets you control a bunch of online music players using global hotkeys.

It's cool because it's open source! And there are quite a few contributors adding new sites to the extension which is great :). Also, people seem to like it and find it useful.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it c... by analogmind on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:31AM (#8571659)
This is great! I'm always switching back and forth between tabs! Thanks! Why does the app wants to read browser history though?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it c... by aegabriel on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:50PM (#8574825)
I make use of the chrome.tabs API which (in theory) could be used to store and track a user's browser history, which is why Chrome has started displaying these messages.

Of course the extension isn't actually doing this :). I'm using the chrome.tabs API as a way of communicating to individual tabs in Chrome. If you are interested the extension source is here: https://github.com/berrberr/streamkeys

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it c... by CrowderSoup on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @05:17PM (#8564604)
Was honestly just commiserating that I couldn't use my keyboards hot-keys to start / stop Google Play Music. This is really useful! Thank you!
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