Spotify Player Extension is a free open source browser plugin for Chrome and Firefox. This extension basically adds a mini Spotify player in Chrome and Firefox and then you can use that control playback easily. But it adds some other features in the browser as well such as Spotify search. With the Spotify search, it adds a right-click menu entry just like for “Search in Google”. You can search any selected text in Spotify library for a song. With this option, you will never have to open the Spotify library again and again nor you will have to type a song name to search it.
To search songs quickly in Spotify desktop, you can use the Firefox and Chrome extension I have mentioned here. Search any text in Spotify in a click and then play the song if you find it there in the mini player that it comes with. To play a song, you will have to sign-in via your Spotify account. But to search songs, you don’t need a Spotify account. Just search any text or song name that you come across on any website and this extension will take care of the rest.
How to add Spotify Search Right Click Menu in Chrome, Firefox to Find Songs?
Spotify Player Extension is an open source tool as well and you can build yourself. The source code is available on GitHub with all the instructions. For quickly getting it, you can install it from Chrome web store or Firefox add-on center. If you want to use it for searching songs only then there is no need to sign in. But if you want to use the mini player then you will need Spotify authorization that you can do after clicking on its icon.
Now, you should have the “Search Spotify for” right click menu in Chrome as well as in Firefox. Use it after selecting any text on a website and it will take you directly to the Spotify library from where you can the search results. In this way, you can use this context menu search in Spotify option to find songs by name. Next, you can play the song or add it to your library in you are signed in to your Spotify account.
In this way, you can use this simple browser extension to search songs by name in Spotify. This is very similar to searching any selected text on Google or Bing. Also, you get a fully functional web player that you can use to control playback.
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As a regular Spotify user I really liked this plugin for Chrome and Firefox., With this I can save a lot of time by not typing the name manually or open Spotify library again and again. If you’re also looking for a similar tool for search songs in Spotify from right click and then you need to try this extension. No matter if you are a Chrome or Firefox user; you will be able to use it in its full glory.
