Twitch Radio Mode icon

Twitch Radio Mode

by Rainbow

v0.6.0 Updated Aug 23, 2022 122KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 3.96
81 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years ⚠️Requests 1 sensitive permission

Description

The extension runs Twitch radio mode in Chrome. Saves network bandwidth, RAM, and other device resources. "Radio mode" is a feature in Twitch mobile app, with which users can play only the sound of the stream, instead of playing the full video. The feature is useful for radio or music streams. After installation, there will be a new "radio" button in control panel of the video. Radio mode can be started/stopped by a single click of this button, and users can engage in the chat just like when they play video streams. NOTE: If you have any issues using the radio mode button, please refresh the webpage and try again. The original source code can be found at: https://github.com/c-rainbow/twitch-audio-web Frequently Asked Questions - Can I use this extension in a recorded video, like past broadcasts, highlights, clips, etc? This extension only works for a livestream. - Can I collect channel points with this extension? No, you cannot collect channel points if the video is not played. - I cannot use radio mode in the main page. For now, the extension only works in the streamer’s channel page. Release notes v0.6.0 (2022-08-21) - Fixed a bug that the radio mode was stuck for ~30 seconds before the audio is played. - Used authorization header to get access token if the user is logged in, to not play unnecessary ads. v0.5.1 (2022-07-12) - Fixed a bug that the radio mode was stuck for ~15 seconds before the audio is played. - Fixed a bug that the radio mode button is always disabled for some people For all other release notes, please refer to https://github.com/c-rainbow/twitch-audio-web/blob/master/.webstore/descriptions/en.txt
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Reviews (22 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-05
Lucas LL

Useless. I cannot listen any radio

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-22
Lucky Spices

It worked the first 2 or 3 days, then it worked for like 10 minutes and now it does not work at all. All it does it pausing the video but there is not sound at all.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-08
Omar Patel

doesnt work at all. doesnt show extension option on twitch.

★☆☆☆☆2021-10-20
C Bartlett

Using latest Chrome 95.0.4638.54. Radio icon shows on twitch vods (right of volume slider), but is greyed out and unclickable. Works fine in live streams, but NOT vods. Any alternatives?

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-21
Fairly Vinyl (Fi)

Clicking the 'Radio Mode' button does nothing for me.

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-16
Juan Mantilla

Useless

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-22
Emirhan Gül

it doesn't work

★★☆☆☆2025-06-22
Wmp Nls

Doesn't work with VODs

★★☆☆☆2024-08-22
Doomby

It's not working for me. I've got twitch page taking about 10-20 seconds to load or more, so the extension is throwing an error because it checks the page for an element with ‘main’ tag, which doesn't exist at first. Fix, please

★★☆☆☆2023-06-01
chaz z

It doesn't work anymore. It's grayed out all the time saying "Radio mode can be used only in livestream"

★★☆☆☆2022-02-05
Fabio Paz

Terrible, doesn't work 75% of the time.

★★☆☆☆2021-02-05
Awiky Fus RO DAh

dont work , cool idea if this work :/

★★★☆☆2025-11-13
callanyonefrompc

Does what I want and seems to work on Manifest v3 despite not having been updated in three years. It does have problems though. a.) it did not block ads for me, b.) the ad audio and Twitch stream audio often became distorted, c.) sometimes the audio for the ads and Twitch stream would become completely muted. Maybe these three things can be fixed with an updated version of the Vaft userscript that blocks Twitch ads. I will wait and see. Whenever I encounter a problem, I just click the video play button and then click the radio button again. That way I don't have to do a full webpage refresh. Another thing that I noticed is that this extension doesn't seem to save a lot of page tab memory, and the amount that it saves is random. The same stream can save 150 MB memory and then if you start over 30 seconds later it might save 300 MB memory. Those are just randomly made up numbers, but you get the idea of how the amount that it saves is always random.

★★★☆☆2024-04-18
Derek Li

Cannot be used on vods even though you can on mobile

★★★☆☆2023-09-16
Klyu BM

It works, even the default ads don't appear, great but you don't earn channel points. press F5 just in case

★★★☆☆2023-08-30
Kilabarus

Sometimes the button doesn't appear even after several reloads of the page

★★★☆☆2023-08-10
Carlos Tull

Would be good, except sadly it cant take FFZ into account and use the audio compression function.

★★★☆☆2023-05-04
nasko

ONE MAJOR ISSUE - you don't earn channel points while being in Radio Mode. Apart from that, the extension works great when it comes to playing live videos in Audio-only. This is the reason why I am giving it three stars - it does the job, but not fully.

★★★☆☆2022-08-13
Dilane Mars

I wanted to test the radio mode, but I can't see the button, despite the last update.

★★★☆☆2022-05-10
Godz Fire3 (GodzFire)

Doesn't work since a new Twitch update that also broke a lot of other extensions. Hopefully this gets updated soon to see if it actually works and with VODs.

★★★☆☆2022-01-09
Jonathan Ramot

It works exactly as intended; however, my channel points stopped accumulating on the stream. Unfortunately, the only way for me to continue accruing points is by playing the video.

★★★☆☆2021-06-18
LeoIsLame

It worked fine on first install but after i pressed the radio button with the vod paused it stopped working entirely even after uninstalling then reinstalling

Permissions (2)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 0.6.0
Updated Aug 23, 2022
Size 122KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026