World Ambient — an ambient music player for Chrome

What it does

One small player, tuned for atmosphere

Moods, not tracklists

Each playlist is a place — choose it once and the player shuffles endlessly inside that mood. Every track plays before anything repeats, and it never drifts into another playlist uninvited.

Keeps playing when you close it

The popup is just the remote control. Close it, switch tabs, keep browsing — the sound continues until you pause it.

Five skins

Dusk, Dawn, Forest, Sea, and Noir. Dawn is the light one. Your choice is remembered.

Quiet by design

No accounts to create, no ads, no downloads, no tracking. Hover the player while listening to see the name of the current track.

Get it

Install the extension

The easiest way is the Chrome Web Store — one click and you're listening.

Add to Chrome — Web Store

You can install manually — it takes about a minute:

Download the extension — grab the latest world-ambient.zip from the releases page and unzip it somewhere it can stay.
Open the extensions page — type chrome://extensions in the address bar.
Turn on Developer mode — the toggle in the top-right corner.
Load unpacked — click the button and select the unzipped world-ambient folder.
Pin it — click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and pin World Ambient so it's always one click away.

Works in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera) that support Manifest V3 extensions.

Under the hood

How it works

A living library

Playlists live in a cloud database (Firebase Firestore), so new tracks and moods appear in your player automatically — no updates to install. Press the refresh icon in the player to pick up changes immediately.

Streaming, not files

Audio streams from a CDN while you listen. Nothing is saved to your computer, and there is no download option — by design.

Light on your browser

The player uses Chrome's offscreen audio system: one small hidden page handles the sound, and nothing runs when you're not listening.

What World Ambient knows about you: almost nothing

World Ambient does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data. There are no analytics, no trackers, no ads, and no user accounts for listeners.

What stays on your device

Your chosen playlist, volume level, and skin are saved in Chrome's local extension storage on your computer. They never leave your browser.

What the extension connects to

Firebase Firestore (Google Cloud) — to read the public list of playlists and track URLs.
Audio CDN (bunny.net) — to stream the audio you're listening to. Like any web request, these services receive your IP address in order to respond; the extension sends nothing else.

Permissions, explained

offscreen — lets music keep playing after the popup closes.
storage — remembers your playlist, volume, and skin.
Host access to Firestore and the audio CDN — fetches the playlist catalogue and the audio streams. Nothing is read from the pages you visit; the extension has no access to your browsing.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the update will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: open an issue on the GitHub repository.

Last updated: July 2026