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Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by esailija »

oxplot wrote: post #19

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music Not exactly the same thing, but in Chrome, you can enable "Tab audio muting UI control" in chrome://flags which allows you to click the speaker icon on tabs that play music to mute it. Click again to unmute. Very handy for when you get a phone call!

FWIW there is a standard in the works (Media Session [1]) that will enable various use cases[2] for web app users to control with media keys, headphone buttons, from lock screen, notification area, ducking for phone calls etc

1. https://mediasession.spec.whatwg.org/

2. https://github.com/whatwg/mediasession#use-cases

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by esailija »

on_and_off wrote: post #17
pen2l wrote: post #2

Heyyyyyy ... http://i.imgur.com/VucG9gy.png ... That's basically Spotify (desktop application). The resemblance being so high makes this a little iffy, and suggests this project won't stay up (at least in its present form) for too long. That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music? It's mind-boggling to me. I would love to ditch Spotify (primarily because 1) I don't like its se…

>That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music? I don't understand the need (and I guess that Google does not either). Is it because you need an offline mode ? That's the only addition I can think of. With the play music chrome extension, the website responds to media keys, so outside of a dedicated app icon in the tray (even though the miniplayer has one), I don't see what a de…

Even without extensions, those things are possible or will soon be possible[1] on the web out of the box (except tray icon but persistent notification with actions can be done to achieve something similar).

1. https://github.com/whatwg/mediasession#use-cases

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by midgetjones »

pen2l wrote: post #2

Heyyyyyy ... http://i.imgur.com/VucG9gy.png ... That's basically Spotify (desktop application). The resemblance being so high makes this a little iffy, and suggests this project won't stay up (at least in its present form) for too long. That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music? It's mind-boggling to me. I would love to ditch Spotify (primarily because 1) I don't like its se…

So Spotify move all their infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud, and now this? Seems pretty obvious what's going on here...

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by mintplant »

oxplot wrote: post #19

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music Not exactly the same thing, but in Chrome, you can enable "Tab audio muting UI control" in chrome://flags which allows you to click the speaker icon on tabs that play music to mute it. Click again to unmute. Very handy for when you get a phone call!

Firefox has the same thing, enabled by default.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by JupiterMoon »

mintplant wrote: post #25
oxplot wrote: post #19

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music Not exactly the same thing, but in Chrome, you can enable "Tab audio muting UI control" in chrome://flags which allows you to click the speaker icon on tabs that play music to mute it. Click again to unmute. Very handy for when you get a phone call!

Firefox has the same thing, enabled by default.

The lack of this by default is something that has annoyed me whenever I have been forced to use chrome.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by zouhair »

jc4p wrote: post #6
pen2l wrote: post #2

Heyyyyyy ... http://i.imgur.com/VucG9gy.png ... That's basically Spotify (desktop application). The resemblance being so high makes this a little iffy, and suggests this project won't stay up (at least in its present form) for too long. That said, why hasn't Google yet created a desktop application for Google Play Music? It's mind-boggling to me. I would love to ditch Spotify (primarily because 1) I don't like its se…

And this is what play.google.com/music/listen looks like: http://i.imgur.com/9dmTu6h.jpg :)

And when you click on the mini-player button at the lower right corner you get, you guessed it, a mini-player.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by matwood »

Cyph0n wrote: post #9
colindean wrote: post #7

This is looking good, but Radiant Player is the current king of Google Play Music on OSX. https://radiant-player.github.io/radiant-player-mac/ brew install Caskroom/cask/radiant-player

The difference is that Radiant requires Flash as far as I read.

Last I checked so did the Google Play website player.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by moberemk »

matwood wrote: post #29
Cyph0n wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that Radiant requires Flash as far as I read.

Last I checked so did the Google Play website player.

You should check again; it's tucked under the labs section but there's an HTML5 audio player available as a Flash alternative. Doesn't work in Safari though.
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