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I've been waiting forever for a Chrome extension that shows which tab is playing music. I wonder if that's even possible. Part of the research I do online requires me to go to several sites including those who, for some dumb reason, think it's alright to hide the music player. If I want to listen to music I can play my own and I usually am listening to something else when a random site starts playing random looped songs.

The answer doesn't have to refer to a Chrome extension, even though I'd preffer, but if anything can detect - maybe even mute - random songs I'd use another browser for that.

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How to geek explains the MuteTab usage may be it will helpful for you. – avirk Jun 25 '12 at 11:14
@avirk MuteTab has already been posted as an answer and it only worked for me in a few cases. – Renan Jun 25 '12 at 11:15
That's why I just posted the explanation of that. I'll check out if I find anything better. – avirk Jun 25 '12 at 11:20
In which cases it doesn't work for you? You can also try out the music controller see if it help out. – avirk Jun 25 '12 at 16:52
Check out the sound on click too. – avirk Jun 25 '12 at 17:48

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This might help:

http://www.mutetab.com/

This is an extension for Chrome, that detect what tab is playing music and allows you to mute them.

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That's interesting except it doesn't work. I ran a test and it gave me seven different "possible sources" of twelve. It's also been reported to consume a ridiculously high amount of RAM - goo.gl/adegh – Renan Apr 20 '12 at 17:53
This is the link for it at the Chrome Web Store: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/… – Marcus Farrington Apr 20 '12 at 22:00
Did it work for you? – Renan Apr 20 '12 at 22:51
> That's interesting except it doesn't work. I ran a test and it gave me seven different "possible sources" of twelve.    @Rennan, so what's wrong with that, it's barely more than half of all tabs. :-D But seriously, I think it is just detecting if there are Flash, HTML5, Silverlight, or Java elements in the page. I'd have to check the source to be sure, but if it does, then of course it is going to give lots of false-positives. – Synetech Jun 27 '12 at 20:40
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MuteTab Beta solved the problem for me.

Although this is not the best solution, since this is a beta version, the fixes available in this version will eventually get in the stable version so MuteTab will work again.

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I don't extensively tested this extension, so please tell me if you have any problems since I'm also interested in an extension that works globally. – criziot Jun 25 '12 at 11:34
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I've tested a little bit more, and with this version you can even play/pause execution of audio in sites like Youtube, or others that as some kind of playable audio or video. – criziot Jun 25 '12 at 14:41
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I like how you can use the panic button and shut down whatever is playing. – Renan Jun 25 '12 at 21:09
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If you browse in a single tab it is a bit easier as it goes slower, and quicktime mutes background windows, but no other plugins make your life easier.

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One tab? Blasphemy! ;) – Jer Apr 19 '12 at 21:24
Quicktime was good with multiple windows, now it does not mude on inactive tabs, so really no luck in askers struggle any time soon... – ZaB Apr 21 '12 at 17:50

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