Streamus is a Google Chrome extension that allows us to listen to Youtube songs without having any browser tab open.

Youtube is the greatest video portal in the world, and millions of people use it daily to see and listen to their favorite songs. The possibility of creating custom playlists made Youtube a perfect place to listen to our favorite music and in the order that we choose.
One of the drawbacks of using Youtube as a music player is that if we want to pause or forward a song, we need to find the tab where it is opened to make any changes to the playlist.

Streamus is presented as an ideal solution to play any song that is present on Youtube.
So we only need to download and install the extension in the Google Chrome browser. Once installed, an icon will appear on the browser toolbar. When we click on the app icon, we will see a simple window where we can perform the following actions:

• Search for songs : Thanks to this option, we can search for a song by title or author, and the program will display a list of all matches found. We can play found songs, add them to a playlist, add them to the queue for playback, or open them on Youtube.

• Create a playlist : We can create a playlist by adding songs found by the search engine integrated into the program. In such a way that if we want to create a playlist of “Nirvana,” we have to create the playlist and look for “Nirvana” in the finder, and add those songs that we want to be in our playlist.
  Another option to create a playlist is to enter the URL of a list or Mix already present on Youtube, and Streamus will automatically import all the songs of that list, or Mix, creating a local playlist.

Another way to add songs to the player is to type in the word “streamus” on the browser's address bar and enter the name of the song we want to add.

once we have the songs loaded into the program, we will be able to listen to them regardless of the browser tab or window we have open. We can access the playback functions anytime by clicking on the extension's icon.

The playlists can be played sequentially, i.e. one after the other, or randomly. Also, we can set the player to repeat a list or a single song indefinitely.

Another option that makes this tool a great music player is the activate radio mode option. The radio mode will automatically add new songs at the end of the current playlist. The loaded songs are not chosen randomly, but they will be similar to those we've heard recently on Streamus; thus, we will have an infinite playlist that matches our tastes.

The playlists created on Streamus can be imported to Youtube with a single click. In addition, we will be able to share simple playlists with any user of Streamus, we only need to press the Export option, and a new tab will open on the browser pointing to an URL that we will be able to share with any people we want.

One of the remarkable features of this player is the ability to associate keyboard shortcuts with some player functions. For example, we may associate the “Ctrl+Right Arrow” keys to skip to the next song of the playlist or “Ctrl+Arrow Down” to pause/resume the song. In this way, we will control the player with the keyboard.
We must remember that shortcuts can be used if the Chrome browser is in the foreground.

In some versions of this extension, we can preview the videos of the songs being played. This feature was introduced to comply with the rules imposed by Google. Despite this, the extension can't be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. On Usitility, we offer you the download of the .crx file so you can install it easily on the Google Chrome browser.