Your media keys.
Always Music.
MacMusicKeys is a tiny macOS menu-bar utility that ensures Play, Pause, Next, and Previous always control Music - no matter what Spotify, Chrome, or anything else is doing.
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MacMusicKeys is a tiny macOS menu-bar utility that ensures Play, Pause, Next, and Previous always control Music - no matter what Spotify, Chrome, or anything else is doing.
Download for MacRuns quietly in the background. No Dock icon, no windows.
Intercepts Play, Pause, Next, and Previous before Spotify, Chrome, or anything else can grab them.
Every press goes to Music - even if Spotify is playing, even if a YouTube tab is open.
Yes. MacMusicKeys is a modern, actively maintained alternative to BeardedSpice and MacMediaKeyForwarder. It does one thing - always routing your media keys to Music - and keeps working on current macOS.
That's the point. MacMusicKeys captures Play, Pause, Next, and Previous before Spotify, Chrome, or any other app can, and sends every press to Music.
macOS 13 Ventura or later, plus Accessibility & Automation permissions. MacMusicKeys guides you through both, then you explicitly start the 7-day trial.