Your media keys,
always on beat.
A free, open-source macOS menu bar utility that routes your media keys to the music app of your choice. Automatically.
A free, open-source macOS menu bar utility that routes your media keys to the music app of your choice. Automatically.
Features
Intelligently detects which music app is currently playing and routes keys there automatically.
Controls YouTube playback in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, and more. 12 browsers supported.
Play/pause, next, previous. Always directed exactly where you want them.
Optionally redirect hardware volume keys to control your music app's volume instead of system audio.
Apple Music, Spotify, Doppler, VOX, Swinsian, Cider, DaftCloud, YouTube, and Auto mode.
Lives in your menu bar as a tiny baton icon. Near-zero CPU and memory usage.
Set it once, forget forever. Starts automatically when you log in to your Mac.
MIT licensed. No telemetry, no ads, no tracking. Inspect every line of code yourself.
How it works
Drag Conduct to your Applications folder. Launch it and it appears in your menu bar.
Allow Accessibility access so Conduct can intercept media key events at the system level.
Choose your music app from the menu, or let Auto mode figure it out for you.
Support
Conduct is free and open-source. If it saves you frustration, consider supporting development.
Free, open-source, and built for music lovers.
