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24 alternatives to Less Speaker.txt
Listening to your Favorite song in office. And suddenly it starts playing on speaker? It happens, and most of the time because your headphones got disconnected unknowingly. Introducing "Less Speaker.txt". It is a chrome extension which stops playback from Spotify and YouTube, whenever your audio output device changes. Install from Chrome Web Store(https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/less-speakertxt/fee...)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Discreetly play music, podcasts & videos on desktop
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A distraction-free way to listen to music
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Add audio to all your Medium Articles with one click
2017 · its alternatives →
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Skip Silence 3▲116Skip silence in audio and video online
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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An awesome audio & video transcription tool for Chrome
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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SoundShroud▲75De-clutter your SoundCloud stream. Get rid of those reposts.
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Just hover the ▶️ button to preview music on Soundcloud
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Smart Tab Mute▲120Ensures that only one tab is playing sound at the same time
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Shows an audio player while using "Read Aloud"
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Audio Playr▲72Audio playback, playlists and export simplified
2018 · bitfield.se · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I just released v4 of my gapless playback library that I first built in 2017 for https://relisten.net. We stream concert recordings, where gapless playback is paramount. It's built from scratch, backed by a rigid state machine (the sole dependency is xstate) and is already running in production over at Relisten. The way it works is by preloading future tracks as raw buffers and scheduling them via the web audio API. It seamlessly transitions between HTML5 and web audio. We've used this technique for the last 9 years and it works fairly well. Occasionally it will blip…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Forgotify▲99Listen to the 4m songs on Spotify that are never played.
2014 · forgotify.com · its alternatives →
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