Sound Found

Web developers seem to love it when pages play sound automatically whenever they are opened, or even randomly. While most browsers now have indicators that show you which tabs are playing sound, they can still be difficult to manage if many of them are open at the same time.

Sound Found is a small Chrome extension designed to make this job just a little bit easier. It shows you all tabs that are playing audio at any given time, and it allows you to select, mute, pause or remove them easily.

Once installed, the extension can be accessed from the Chrome toolbar. The drop-down menu displays all tabs that are playing sound and gives you several options for managing them.

While Chrome already shows you when a tab is playing sound, there is no way to tell where something specific is coming from. With this extension, you can see all this info in the drop-down menu.

If you click on any of the tabs in the list, the extension will take you directly to them. You can also cycle through them using Alt+Shift+Comma and mute/unmute all tabs using Alt+Shift+M. Clicking the eye icon has the same effect.

To stop the audio immediately, you have two options. You can either pause the tab, and then resume playback at a later date, or just close it altogether.

When it comes down to it, Sound Found is a very simple extension, but it does its job well. It makes it much easier to keep an eye on browser tabs that are playing any type of sound. You can select them, mute them, pause or close them, all from a simple drop-down menu or with the help of hotkeys.