ListenOnRepeat is gone. Here’s what to use instead.

For about thirteen years, listenonrepeat.com was the default place to loop a YouTube video. Type a URL, get a clean player that played the same video — or a span of it — on infinite repeat. At its peak it handled about 150,000 visits a month, had a dedicated Chrome extension, and ran an active music-discovery blog on the side.

Then in mid-November 2025, the site stopped resolving. By the time you’re reading this — May 2026 — it has been down for six months. The Chrome extension still installs but the “Open in ListenOnRepeat” button leads to nothing.

Why this matters

ListenOnRepeat solved three things at once that YouTube doesn’t handle well on its own:

1. True infinite loop. YouTube’s built-in “Loop” in the right-click menu only works on video pages you’re actively viewing — close the tab and the loop dies.
2. AB section repeat. Mark two points in the timeline and only that span repeats. Critical for music practice, language drilling, and dance choreography.
3. No idle prompt. Because ListenOnRepeat ran on its own domain, YouTube’s “Video paused. Continue watching?” dialog never appeared.

If you used the site for any of those, you’ve been making do with workarounds for the past few months. Here are the options people are actually moving to.

Option 1 — A direct web-player replacement

The closest like-for-like options are TubeNonstop, LoopTube.io, and LoopTube.xyz. All three do roughly what ListenOnRepeat did: paste a YouTube URL, get a player on a different domain, set an AB loop, and walk away.

Differences worth knowing:

• TubeNonstop emphasises the no-pause-prompt behaviour explicitly and adds a wake-lock / worker heartbeat layer to survive background-tab throttling.
• LoopTube.io is the minimalist reference — fewest features, cleanest UI, no opinions.
• LoopTube.xyz is the most feature-rich for musicians: gradual tempo increase, frame-perfect precision, embed API.

Option 2 — A Chrome extension

If you mostly stayed on youtube.com and just wanted the pause prompt gone, an extension like YouTube NonStop (Lawfx) installs on the YouTube site itself and dismisses the dialog automatically. It doesn’t give you AB loop or speed control. See our full comparison.

Option 3 — YouTube’s built-in Loop

Right-click any video player on youtube.com and select “Loop”. The video will repeat. This works fine for short clips and casual listening, but it doesn’t survive a tab close, doesn’t support AB section repeat, and doesn’t stop the idle prompt. Use it for quick replays, not for hours of background play.

What ListenOnRepeat won’t give back

Beyond the player, the site ran a music-discovery layer — “most looped this week,” new-artist features, a podcast. That side of the product is gone. If you used it for discovery you’ll need Spotify’s Discover Weekly, YouTube Music’s recommendations, or a separate service. None of the current alternatives have rebuilt that layer yet.

Will it come back?

Nobody knows. The domain still resolves at the DNS level but the application has been silent for six months. There’s no public statement from the original developer. If you have a personal archive of loops, they were stored client-side in localStorage — they died with your browser cache the moment the site went away.