I Built a Chrome Extension to Bypass Spotify's Mini-Player Paywall (Because I'm a Pirate 🏴‍☠️)

I love listening to music while coding. Not background noise. Not lo-fi beats. Actual music — I want to see what's playing, change tracks without breaking flow, and keep the player somewhere visible so I can glance at it without switching tabs. Spotify Web has a mini-player. You probably know this. What you might also know is that it's locked behind Premium . Free tier users get the full-page player or nothing. You can't make it small. You can't tuck it into a corner. Spotify decided that's a Premium feature. I disagreed. So I built my own. The Problem (In Case You've Never Hit This) Here's the workflow I wanted: Spotify Web open in one tab, playing music A tiny floating player sitting in the corner of my screen Full controls — play, pause, skip, seek, volume — without switching tabs A Picture-in-Picture window I can drag to another monitor while I code Spotify's answer: pay for Premium . My answer: build a Chrome Extension that injects its own mini-player directly onto the page. Will