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Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by Velox »

vegardx wrote: post #28
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.

They are not necessarily more insecure? And the great part about them is the fact that if an app goes rogue then its password can be revoked. Also, while they can access my data, they can't change data. No one can log in with an application specific password and steal my account.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by Touche »

gohrt wrote: post #39
Aqueous wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right - an embedded webview with some window dressing. But it seems like they don't want to handle it, as they've made clear. So why not shell out a few bucks for one that's already made?

because the first thing they'd do with it is throw away and rewrite it on the Google tech stack. But this person might land a job at Google, like the Sparrow folks... http://sparrowmailapp.com/

This is seriously just a stylesheet: https://raw.github.com/kbhomes/google-music-mac/master/googl...

That's not an insult, it's supremely awesome that this is even possible and that this dev made it happen. I'm using it now. But there are a few of these types of things for Google Music, there's a similar Chromebook app.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by calebegg »

Spittal wrote: post #32

I would love to see an out of browser version of Hangouts, but this is definitely nice to have.

The Hangouts Chrome extension isn't out of browser, but it's pretty close, and I like it a lot.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahada...

It has its own Gmail-style chat UI at the bottom of the screen.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by Touche »

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…

I prefer a nice web app that I can use on any OS than nice desktop apps and neglected web apps that you get with some of the other services.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by inanov »

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #45

How do you actually launch this on Mavericks? My Mac just complains that the App isn't signed.

You should allow apps downloaded from places other than App Store. Go to Security & Privacy under System Preferences, and on the general tab, select "Anywhere" under "Allow apps downloaded from:" option.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by kbhomes »

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #45

How do you actually launch this on Mavericks? My Mac just complains that the App isn't signed.

If it doesn't let you launch, you may need to find the app in Finder and open it from the right click menu. Seems that OS X requires you to do this so that it knows you explicitly want to launch it. It remembers this after the first launch so you can use it normally afterwards.

Re: Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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Post by kbhomes »

kcbanner wrote: post #34
rcthompson wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The image files of the Google logo are copyrighted.

I can understand how this might be legally contentious, but the only thing it could be reported for is the name, I would think? The Google Play logo there is not me embedding it into the app, since it's displaying the webpage itself. Correct me if I'm wrong?
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