Before you start
Choral is a floating remote control for macOS, not a streaming service. Bandcamp 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 Bandcamp 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 Bandcamp in Chrome
- Open the music website. Visit https://bandcamp.com/ and sign in.
- Open Choral Connector. Click its toolbar icon while the Bandcamp 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 Bandcamp from Choral
Bandcamp uses several player layouts across artist pages, album pages, and discovery views. Choral follows the active Bandcamp player and keeps the available transport controls in a consistent floating panel.
Open Choral's music-source menu and select Bandcamp. 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
- Previous and next track
- Seek within a track
- Like when Bandcamp exposes it
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 the current Bandcamp page provides a fan or wishlist action that can be identified reliably, Choral's heart uses it. Otherwise the heart remains disabled to avoid activating an unrelated page control.
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
Bandcamp has Limited Support because its player depends on the page layout. Play, pause, track navigation, seeking, and likes are supported where available; shuffle and repeat are disabled.
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
The album is playing but Choral is empty
Refresh the specific artist or album page after enabling Bandcamp, then start a track from the page's visible player.
Next track is unavailable
A single-track release or embedded Bandcamp player may not provide a next item. Open the full album page for track navigation.
Shuffle and repeat are gray
This is expected for Bandcamp. Choral keeps the controls visible for layout consistency but does not send unsupported commands.
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 Bandcamp?
Install Choral and Choral Connector, enable the website, and start a track. Your browser keeps playing; Choral becomes the remote.