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Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by kbhomes »

phaer wrote: post #18

IANAL, but I guess you might want to add a big "this product is not affiliated with google" disclaimer on your page?

Oh you're very right, I had that added to the README of the repository but forgot to add it to the website. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by Wheen »

kbhomes wrote: post #17
sudomal wrote: post #8

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.

Does Last.fm support mean just scrobbling, or are there other features you might like? I'm not a Last.fm user but I'd be willing to take a look into including support down the road!

For me personally, just scrobbling.

At this point, that's the only thing stopping me from using it. Looks great, but I'm a stat freak and I need my scrobbling.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by shazow »

Very cool, I've been looking for something like this. I wish I could use an Application-specific Password rather than my full Google password + OTP.

But I don't suppose that would be feasible with a Safari wrapper.

Also when I first loaded it, it complained about the lack of Flash, but navigating around and playing music worked just fine.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by rcthompson »

camus2 wrote: post #22

Google Music , Google play logo , a project ready from a DMCA takedown ... dont be stupid, remove all the google trademark stuff or your project wont live long in github.

I think you have the DMCA confused with trademark law. It may indeed get taken down for legal reasons, but I don't see how the DMCA comes into it.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by vegardx »

shazow wrote: post #24

Very cool, I've been looking for something like this. I wish I could use an Application-specific Password rather than my full Google password + OTP. But I don't suppose that would be feasible with a Safari wrapper. Also when I first loaded it, it complained about the lack of Flash, but navigating around and playing music worked just fine.

Just curious, why would you want Application-specific passwords? They're far more insecure and still have access to all your Google services. Application-specific password would only make sense if Google actually let you limit access to a certain subset of Google-features.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by lallysingh »

Looks beautiful. They say that they're not affiliated with Google a few times. I hope that if they get pinged by Google, it's something close to the Jack Daniels letter[1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/avidan/2012/07/26/the-worlds-nic...

EDIT: Actually, isn't it terrible that this is the first thing that we think of? This is distinctly not a problem in the open source world. It doesn't help Google, either. Ugh.

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