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• Added redundancy to ensure the extension loads

• Spotify started randomly using and

• added comments to the code

• download project as zip
• unzip and load the folder as unpacked extension
• remember to click that little refresh button on the extension page for the extension if you make code changes.

The video/audio element is hidden and only referenced in spotify's encapsulated code

• The code main part of the code is written in a template literal string with back quotes ---> `

  • This allows a multilined string with double quotes and single quotes without breaking the string variable

• This string named code is injected into the top of the html dom as a script element when the page loads

  • It loads before spotify's scripts and can pre-append the browser's code of document.createElement before it's used
  • Whenever spotify's scripts execute document.createElement('video') a reference to the element created is stored in VideoElementsMade
    • document.createElement('video') used to be an audio element until spotify started supporting videos and now it's randomly either

• The timeout() loop is just an added assurance that the playbackspeed input element is created and that the speed is changed to the stored speed from previous sessions

• made a full copy of spotify's code
  • forced having to block spotify's script with a firewall extension
  • slow to open with editor and prone to crashing when debugging
  • firewall made things inconsistent
  • doesnt ever update when spotify updates :(
• added window.spotifyContext = this; when you click play
  • this allowed window.spotifyContext._getTrackPlayer() from anywhere