Before you start

Choral is a floating remote control for macOS, not a streaming service. SoundCloud 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 SoundCloud until you explicitly enable that website.

1. Install Choral Connector

  1. Install Choral on your Mac. Download it directly or install it from the Mac App Store, then open the app.
  2. Add Choral Connector to Chrome. Open the Chrome Web Store listing and choose Add to Chrome.
  3. Keep the extension available. Open Chrome's Extensions menu and pin Choral Connector if you want its icon to stay visible in the toolbar.
The browser extension cannot be used by itself. The Choral app must be running on the same Mac for the floating player to receive track information and send controls.

2. Enable SoundCloud in Chrome

  1. Open the music website. Visit https://soundcloud.com/ and sign in.
  2. Open Choral Connector. Click its toolbar icon while the SoundCloud tab is active.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 SoundCloud from Choral

Choral reads the track playing in SoundCloud and displays it in the same compact panel used for your other music sources. You can pause a long mix, skip through a playlist, or seek without finding the SoundCloud tab first.

Open Choral's music-source menu and select SoundCloud. 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 and unlike
  • Shuffle
  • Repeat

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

The heart button in Choral maps to SoundCloud's Like control. Clicking it adds the current track to your SoundCloud Likes; clicking it again removes the track. You remain signed in to SoundCloud in the browser, and the action is performed under that account.

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 Full Support means

SoundCloud is a Fully Supported Choral source. Choral can control playback, track navigation, seeking, likes, shuffle, and repeat when those controls are available in the current SoundCloud context.

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

Play or pause does not respond

Reload the SoundCloud page after enabling it, start a track directly on SoundCloud once, and reopen Choral Connector to confirm the Ready state.

The wrong SoundCloud track is displayed

Select SoundCloud from Choral's source menu. Choral preserves the last known track for paused sources so you can deliberately choose what the play button will control.

A control is disabled

Some SoundCloud pages expose fewer actions than the standard player. A disabled Choral button means that action is not currently available and prevents an unintended click elsewhere on the page.

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 SoundCloud?

Install Choral and Choral Connector, enable the website, and start a track. Your browser keeps playing; Choral becomes the remote.

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