This release introduces Connected Apps in beta, expanding YTM Enhancer beyond the browser popup while making everyday controls and settings clearer and more reliable.

Connected Apps (Beta)

• Control YouTube Music from YTM Menu Bar on macOS, YTM Tray on Windows, or YTM Enhancer CLI on macOS and Linux.
• See current playback information and use playback, seeking, and open-or-focus commands from supported companion surfaces.
• Find installation links, view connection status, reconnect apps, and enable or disable each app from the extension.
• Connected Apps are off by default, and communication stays between the browser and apps on your device.

Playback Controls

-Optionally mark the selected YouTube Music tab with the YTM Enhancer icon.
- Disabling the marker immediately restores YouTube Music's native favicon.
- Improved the reliability and accuracy of seeking, shuffle, repeat, play state, track metadata, and artwork.

Automation

• Combined Auto Play and Auto Skip Disliked into one streamlined Automation view.
• Added clearer autoplay modes and browser-specific guidance while preserving existing preferences.

Extension Interface

• Made sidebar navigation scroll when the feature list exceeds the popup height.
• Added clearer feedback and recovery when a popup action or view cannot complete.
• Improved startup, reconnection, and multi-browser behavior for a more dependable experience.

YTM Enhancer 0.4.1 improves development and production coexistence for users who keep the production extension synced across devices while testing a local development build.

YTM Enhancer 0.4.0

Playback Controls

• Added shuffle and repeat controls to the popup.
• Improved playback button reliability across popup, PiP, and hotkeys.
• Fixed seek bar timing so current time and duration stay aligned with YouTube
  Music.
• Restored the stream quality interaction hint so it disappears once quality
  controls are ready.

Mini Player

• Made PiP controls update more quickly after playback changes.
• Improved PiP control reliability for play, pause, previous, next, and seeking.
• Fixed notification suppression while PiP is open.
• Clarified how the extension PiP button relates to YouTube Music's native mini
  player.

Hotkeys

• Organized shortcuts by module in the Hotkeys popup.
• Added module-owned hotkey registration so features can expose shortcuts
  consistently.
• Improved shortcut row spacing and table layout.

Notifications

• Improved PiP-aware notification suppression.
• Kept notification routing consistent across modules.

Auto Play

• Improved page-play handling so intentional user playback is not suppressed
  during startup.
• Moved Auto Play status handling into the module for more consistent behavior.

Audio Visualizer

• Improved module-owned visualizer state syncing.
• Added dedicated module runtime handling for visualizer settings.

Maintenance release for duplicate install detection.

Playback

• Fixed the play shortcut so it can start a page playlist that has not begun playing yet.
• Improved auto-play startup behavior so it does not unexpectedly trigger when the extension is injected into an already-open YouTube Music tab.

Mini Player

• Added a tip explaining that the Picture-in-Picture window can be resized to show just the track details and controls you want.

Notifications

• Fixed duplicate track-change behavior when the extension is reloaded or reinjected while playback is already active.

About

• Added a lightweight review prompt to the About view.

Development Builds

• Improved local development and production coexistence so production builds clearly disable themselves while a development build is active.
• Added dev build metadata in the popup to make loaded build type easier to verify.

What's Changed

Auto-Play

• Added a Default option so YouTube Music can use its normal playback behavior when preferred.
• Improved startup playback for playlists and pages where the player bar is not open yet.
• Fixed a Firefox issue where YouTube Music's native play button could fail on first load.
• Added a Firefox warning when browser autoplay permissions are blocking playback.

Playback Controls

• Renamed the Playback Controls settings card to Settings for clearer labeling.

What's Changed:

Hotkeys

• Improved the Hotkeys module layout so shortcuts are easier to scan on Chrome and Firefox.
• Added Firefox support for editing and resetting extension hotkeys directly from the Hotkeys module.
• Made hotkey symbols more consistent across browsers, with OS-appropriate modifier display, clearer arrow keys, and hover tooltips that spell out each key.
• Added a default Firefox shortcut for showing the current track notification.

Playback Controls

• Fixed seeking so the scrub line works reliably again.
• Improved playback progress and time detection for more accurate track state.

Auto-Skip Disliked Songs

• Fixed an issue where automatically skipping disliked songs could skip two tracks.

Notifications

• Updated track notifications so new track changes replace the previous notification instead of piling up.
• Fixed Firefox notifications so they appear reliably.
• Muted notification sounds where the browser supports silent notifications.
• Added clearer guidance for muting notification sounds in Firefox.

Mini Player

• Disabled Mini Player when Document Picture-in-Picture is not available.
• Added clearer guidance for unsupported browsers.

Audio Visualizer

• Improved settings behavior so restored visualizer settings apply more reliably.
• Improved overlay attachment when YouTube Music loads song artwork later.

About

• Improved browser icons.
• Added extension store links.
• Added hover states to resource links.
• Show the actual installed extension version.

Bug Fixes

• Auto-skip disliked songs now works — fixed detection of like/dislike state, which was broken by YouTube Music not updating the expected aria-pressed attribute. The extension now reads the like-status attribute from the parent renderer element. This also fixes like/dislike state display in the PiP mini player.

What's New

Mini Player

• Shuffle and repeat indicators — the PiP mini player now shows the current shuffle and repeat state, matching what's active in YTM.
• Volume control — hover over the volume button to reveal a slider. Click the button to mute/unmute. A tooltip shows the current volume percentage.
• Progress bar tooltip — hover over the seek bar to see the timestamp at that position.
• Redesigned layout — the mini player uses a card-style layout that gracefully adapts as you resize the PiP window, progressively hiding secondary controls to keep the essentials visible.

Hotkeys

• "Remind me" hotkey (Alt+Shift+R) — shows a notification with the currently playing track, useful when you want a quick glance without switching tabs.

Bug Fixes

• Notifications no longer throttled on macOS — fixed an issue where rapid track changes could cause macOS to silently drop notifications.