Before you start
Choral is a floating remote control for macOS, not a streaming service. Amazon Music continues playing in Chrome under your own account. Choral Connector sends the current track and supported controls to the Choral app through a local connection on your Mac.
You need macOS 15 or later, Google Chrome, the Choral app, and the free Choral Connector extension. The extension does not receive access to Amazon Music until you explicitly enable that website.
1. Install Choral Connector
- Install Choral on your Mac. Download it directly or install it from the Mac App Store, then open the app.
- Add Choral Connector to Chrome. Open the Chrome Web Store listing and choose Add to Chrome.
- Keep the extension available. Open Chrome's Extensions menu and pin Choral Connector if you want its icon to stay visible in the toolbar.
2. Enable Amazon Music in Chrome
- Open the music website. Visit https://music.amazon.com/ and sign in.
- Open Choral Connector. Click its toolbar icon while the Amazon Music tab is active.
- Enable this site. Click Enable Choral on this site, then approve Chrome's permission prompt. Choral requests access only to the music website you are enabling.
- Start a song. Play a normal track on the website. The popup should change to a Ready message after Choral recognizes the player.
3. Control Amazon Music from Choral
Choral shows the active Amazon Music track and provides the controls Amazon's web player makes available. Amazon account tiers and playback contexts can change which actions work: free listening, stations, and on-demand albums do not always expose the same controls.
Open Choral's music-source menu and select Amazon Music. This selection determines which source receives play, pause, and shortcut commands when several music apps or browser players are open at the same time.
- Play and pause
- Next track
- Seek when Amazon allows it
- Like and unlike
- Trigger shuffle
You can also configure global shortcuts in Choral Settings. They work while you are using another app, so common actions do not require bringing Chrome or Choral to the front.
4. Like or favorite the current song
When Amazon Music presents a like or positive-feedback action for the current item, Choral's heart uses it. If the current playback type does not expose that action, the heart stays disabled rather than sending an unrelated command.
If the heart is gray and cannot be clicked, the current player context has not exposed a reliable like or favorite action. Choral deliberately disables unavailable actions instead of hiding controls or guessing where to click.
What Limited Support means
Amazon Music has Limited Support in Choral. Play, pause, next, seeking, like, and shuffle are supported where Amazon enables them. Shuffle behaves like Amazon's own web control and may start a shuffled queue rather than maintaining a simple on/off state.
Music websites can change their player interfaces and internal behavior. Choral's support label describes the current integration, but a future website update can temporarily affect one or more controls.
Troubleshooting
Previous track is disabled
This is expected for Amazon Music in Choral, especially on free accounts and station-style playback. Use the available next-track control.
The progress bar cannot be dragged
Amazon may block seeking for a station, preview, advertisement, or free-tier playback. Choral enables seeking only when the page exposes a valid seekable track.
Shuffle does not stay highlighted
Amazon's shuffle button can act as a command that starts a shuffled queue instead of a persistent toggle. Choral follows that behavior.
Choral Connector says the app is not connected
Open the Choral app and leave it running. The extension connects only to a local address on your Mac. If the status does not recover, quit and reopen Choral, then reopen the extension popup.
Ready to control Amazon Music?
Install Choral and Choral Connector, enable the website, and start a track. Your browser keeps playing; Choral becomes the remote.