Google rolled out new media playback controls for Google Chrome and Chrome OS in January last year. The feature added a new icon next to the address bar that opened a simple playback controls window with a pause/play button, the currently playing URL, and the song title. The window also showed the current song’s album art. Google is now rolling out an update for the media controls on the latest Chrome Canary build (v. 91) that adds a progress bar and dynamic backgrounds to the mix.
Reddit user u/Leopeva64-2 recently spotted (via Android Police) the updated media controls hidden behind a new Chrome flag. You can access the media controls by downloading the latest Chrome Canary release and heading over to the chrome://flags page. You’ll then have to search for global media controls, and you should spot the new #global-media-controls-modern-ui flag.
