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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 matwood »

moberemk wrote: post #30
matwood wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ah, I was using Safari. Thanks!

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by JoBrad »

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…

You can also play your local music with apps like Spotify. No desktop client is a huge issue for me.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by kyrra »

cespare wrote: post #4

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, > Supports media keys (play, pause, stop, next, previous) A relatively recent Chrome feature that many aren't aware of is the ability of extensions and apps to use Chrome- or desktop-wide (global) hotkeys. So if you're using the Google Play Music extension, you can, for example, hook it up to your media keys and it will work even when Chrome i…

There are also extensions that helps with this. If you have media keys it allows you to use those regardless of focus. Plus you can get popups on song change or other various settings.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prime-player-for-g...

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I encourage all open source projects so this is cool. That said, I just open Play Music in a new Chrome window, not a tab, and use the keyboard to switch between Chrome Windows and other apps. Easy enough. I also sometimes have my iPad Pro running music while I work on my laptop.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by terinjokes »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #26
mintplant wrote: post #25

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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.

To didn't enable a setting in Chrome, yet this still works for me, and has for a while.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by SeriousM »

pjmlp wrote: post #15

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, or stop listening to your favourite song because Chrome is guzzling up all your RAM.. > Dev Requirements > Node.js (Recommend 4.2.x) Yeah, right....

What's the problem with the requirements?

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by Veratyr »

pjmlp wrote: post #15

> Never again will you have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, or stop listening to your favourite song because Chrome is guzzling up all your RAM.. > Dev Requirements > Node.js (Recommend 4.2.x) Yeah, right....

Yeah, that's an odd claim considering that it's built on Electron, which is Chromium-based.
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