Commands are sent to all open YouTube players when configured not to

[ConorJS]

Regardless of whether 'General' -> 'General Settings' -> 'Send commands to most recent player tab only.' is set or not, all YouTube players across all Chrome windows pause/unpause when I hit the play/pause hotkey. This has worked for years, and randomly broke a few days ago.

Chrome version: 97.0.4692.71 (Official Build) (64-bit)

It's possible I was running 96.0.4664 until I restarted Chrome, and then started noticing the issue. I hadn't restarted Chrome for a while until recently, so it could be the newer version causing this.

[Timums]

I have the exact same problem. I'm on Opera 83.0.4254.19 (64bit) and it stopped working the same day as ConorJS. Likewise, I also updated my version before the problem occurred. I can also replicate the problem in Chrome 97.0.4692.99 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit).
Any help would be appreciated.

[ZornTaov]

After a bit of digging, it looks like tabStates[tab.id].state.isPlaying at https://github.com/berrberr/streamkeys/blob/master/code/js/background.js#L91 always returns true for youtube videos. Digging DEEPER it's because of https://github.com/berrberr/streamkeys/blob/master/code/js/controllers/YoutubeController.js#L14 as area-label never changes when you play/pause a video. In my testing changing it to check title seems to have fixed this issue, as it updates with the change of player state. #851 is my proposed fix.

[Staindk]

This issue has been annoying the hell out of me. I depend on Streamkeys to help me handle my debilitating tab hoarding problem and it's been failing since this problem cropped up 😄

Hopefully a maintainer merges this in and they push out a new version to the Chrome store - until then, does anyone know if there is an easy way we could fix this ourselves? Not sure how simple it is to build your own altered version of the extension and install it to Chrome etc 🙈

[lollilol]

when will this be merged/fixed lol

[BaliBalo]

@Staindk I'm a bit late but it's not too too hard if you have git and node installed, by running these in a terminal:

git clone git@github.com:berrberr/streamkeys.git
cd streamkeys
git fetch origin pull/851/head:youtube-fix
git checkout youtube-fix
npm install
npm run grunt:dev

then on the chrome extensions page (chrome://extensions/) you can use "Load unpacked" with the folder streamkeys/build/unpacked-dev (don't forget to also disable the other streamkeys extension while you have this temporary one active)

I would love to see it merged and published to the actual extension though

[Staindk]

@BaliBalo And I'm even later - but just wanted to mention your instructions worked perfectly and I'm back to play/pausing youtube properly ^_^

Thanks!

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[Staindk]

Bump - AFAIK this is still a problem and should not be closed.

[NimmLor]

@berrberr

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.