Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by kbhomes » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

Show HN: Google Music for Mac
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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

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Post by johannh » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

Looks promising! May I ask why you forked from the original (https://github.com/JamesFator/GoogleMusicMac)? Looking at the commit history it seems to be under active development.

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Post by revisionzero » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

Wow, this is exactly what I wanted a few months back when I was using Google Music extensively. This may get me to re-subscribe. Great job!

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Post by seivan » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

I've seen http://audiobox.fm if you meed more than just Google Music as a storage.

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Post by meerita » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

I'm testing it right now and it looks pretty nice.

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Post by ansimionescu » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:51 PM UTC

Thank you so much for this! It's just a Safari wrapper, but it's the first native solution I've seen. Google is really horsing around with Google Music, it's sad that I pay them the same amount I would (and did) Rdio and Spotify and get treated with shitty Flash web players and no native apps.

edit: 15 minutes in – it's not extremely polished but I really love it! Finally, no more annoying music.google.com Chrome tab.

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Post by sudomal » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

One thing that stuck me about Google Music is its lack of built-in support for last.fm. Was kind of hoping this had it.

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Post by turing » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

Great work. It looks really slick, and from the comments so far it appears many people are excited to have a native app. That said, I'd be interested to here why exactly people want a native app. The web app already has notifications and has suited me just fine, so I'd be interested to hear what others find useful about a native app.

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Post by cloverich » Sat, Feb 22, 2014, 6:56 PM UTC

ansimionescu wrote: post #7

Thank you so much for this! It's just a Safari wrapper, but it's the first native solution I've seen. Google is really horsing around with Google Music, it's sad that I pay them the same amount I would (and did) Rdio and Spotify and get treated with shitty Flash web players and no native apps. edit: 15 minutes in – it's not extremely polished but I really love it! Finally, no more annoying music.google.com Chrome tab…

> no native apps.

To be fair, no native desktop apps. Their android App is great - by my experience much better than Spotify's. And while I do prefer a desktop app to a browser app, their browser app is more feature complete than Spotify's desktop App.