BeardedSpice For Mac

BeardedSpice is an unobtrusive and handy macOS application designed from the ground-up to provide you with control over multiple web-based media players and to help you switch between them with ease.

While using Google Chrome or Safari, BeardedSpice helps you to easily and effortlessly control YouTube, HypeMachine, Spotify (Web), Pandora, BandCamp, GrooveShark, SoundCloud, Last.fm, Google Music and Rdio, among many many other multimedia streaming websites.

According to its development team, other music sharing websites will also be added in the future and you can find the list with all supported web based media players on the app's GitHub page.

The great thing about BeardedSpice is that you can use your Mac keyboard’s multimedia keys to play, pause and jump to the previous or next song in the playlist. On top of that, you can pause a player and start another one without lifting your hands off the keyboard.

Currently, BeardedSpice is compatible with Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome, as well as with a handful of macOS applications (i.e., iTunes, Spotify, VLC, VOX, Downcast, TIDAL Desktop). More experienced Mac users can write a new handler following the instructions provided on BeardedSpice’s website, if their favorite music sharing website is not yet supported.

Moreover, from BeardedSpice’s status bar menu, you can view all available players and select the one you want to pause or play using your mouse or the customizable keyboard shortcut. On top of that, you can access the Preferences window and define a new Active Tab key or disable certain handlers.

Consequently, you can select the web players that you want to be controllable via BeardedSpice and uncheck the ones you don’t want to control using the media keys.

Powerful and extremely user-friendly media streaming site controller for your Mac's menu bar

On the whole, BeardedSpice proved to be highly responsive and promptly changed the currently playing media, paused it and also helped us change the currently active player with just a tap of a button.

In a nutshell, BeardedSpice is the perfect app to have installed on your Mac if you don't want to keep constantly changing tabs in your browser and you'd rather use your Mac keyboard's media keys to control web-based streaming websites.