User Manual
Media Controls
Control audio and video from the sidebar
When a tab is playing audio or video, a mini player bar appears at the bottom of the sidebar. Control playback without switching tabs.
What It Shows
- Favicon and title of the tab playing media
- Play/pause button
- Mute button
- Click the bar to switch to that tab
How It Works
Bushido injects a media detection script into every page that polls for <audio> and <video> elements every 1.5 seconds. When it finds active media, it reports the state back to the sidebar via postMessage IPC.
Polling is used instead of event listeners because YouTube and some other sites don't fire standard media events reliably in WebView2 initialization scripts.
Behavior
- The media bar persists across tab switches — you can browse other tabs while music plays
- Play/pause and mute send commands to the media tab without switching to it
- If multiple tabs have media, the bar shows the most recently active one