Tools to Turn YouTube to a Good Music Player

YouTube now is the world second largest website (the largest site is Facebook) and the largest video sharing website. Its parent Google estimates that the video site currently has 500 million users, who spent about 14 minutes on the site in January. YouTube offers a lot of great music for the users. YouTube music has become a part of our daily life. The tips below show us how to use some tools to make a better music experience on YouTube.


YouTube Music Player (Firefox addon)

This tool is a Firefox plugin. With it, you don't need to open YouTube, just add and play music from YouTube. This extension can control the playback of YouTube music, show relevant information of music and place the playlist in side bar. You can drag and drop YouTube music link to the side bar to add music to the playlist. It can also save multiple playlists on your computer.


Chrome Media Player (Chrome extension)

It's a Google Chrome browser extension that is similar to the above one. You can activate the player main panel from top right corner addons list.


Lyrics displaying


YouTube Music Video Lyrics (Chrome extension)

Install it on your Google Chrome browser; It's a button on the top right corner of the browser. Click the button when a YouTube music video is being played in Chrome browser, and the accompanying lyrics will show.


YouTube Karaoke rebirth! (Chrome extenstion)

This Chrome addon displays the lyrics of a YouTube song in Karaoke style, so you can sing along with the lyrics while watching a YouTube music video.


Other tools


Audio Stream Recorder
Desktop-based application to record audio stream from website to your computer.


YouTube Video Downloader
Software to download videos from YouTube and some other video sharing sites.


YouTube Looper (Chrome extension)

This tool is rather simple - just adds a Loop button under the YouTube video player.


Youtube to mp3
It's a script to extract audio from YouTube music video to MP3 format.