Have the ability to use the chrome browser media controller to quickly select next/previous track, as currently only play/pause are supported.

+1 This also prevents the “next” and “previous” keyboard media keys from working with the web app whereas the “play/pause” key works.

Wanted to chime in and provide two working examples for comparison to Plex. [image] Both spotify and youtube music support play controls via chrome’s media control menu, which also supports media keys (play/pause, next, previous) on my keyboard. I believe many other streaming media websites suppo…

This is the closest thing i can find to any documentation from google about how to have your media player supported. [image] Customize Media Notifications and Handle Playlists | Web Customize web media notifications and respond to media related events with the new Media Session API. …

Ok if you open the chrome developer console and paste this in you get pretty much what we’re wanting. Edit: Moved code to https://github.com/nemchik/plex-web-mediaSession and added support for other media types (movies, music, and tv). Just copy the javascript to a console to run it. but I wasn’t …

documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSession/metadata

Just wanted to update about https://github.com/nemchik/plex-web-mediaSession i have added code to observe changes to the playing media, so you can paste the js code into the console once after loading the page and it’ll continue to work until you reload the page. If Plex were to take that exact code…

@ilikepie717 could you change the topic to include firefox and edge as well, you can see the compatibility here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Session_API

It seems to now be implemented, thanks!

Nice. It’s in the changelog since November! [image] Plex Web Announcements 4.47.1 NEW: Safari supports direct stream HEVC and direct play only HEVC with hcv1 tag. Other browsers continue transcoding to H.264. Added range selection using the Shift key to updated media d…

Next/previous track media control support (Chrome)

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nemchik February 6, 2021, 1:45pm 10

Nice. It’s in the changelog since November!

Off to go try it out!

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Next/previous track media control support (Chrome)

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