Play/pause button on chrome

So i use spotify for my music and chrome as my internet browser. previously i had no problems with playing spotify using the play/pause button on my macs touch bar, but now all the sudden the button controls chrome stuff too, like youtube and netflix play/pause. is there any way to disable this so it doesnt do this on chrome???

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 10:26 PM

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sumsin

Level 1

19 points

Jun 30, 2019 5:51 AM in response to dheard

Was having exact same issue.

This worked:

https://www.addictivetips.com/web/disable-media-key-control-in-chrome/

dheard Author

Level 1

8 points

Jun 30, 2019 10:02 PM in response to sumsin

That worked great! thank you so much!!!

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