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> 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?
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.
It works well enough, has album art views, something I do want as a feature, but Radiant has a nicer overall UI (IMO), has a mini player that I can tuck away in the corner somewhere, and has the ability to add new playlists within the app. Installing flash is that much of a dealbreaker for me.
> 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…
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>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.
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You can also play your local music with apps like Spotify. No desktop client is a huge issue for me.
The only reason Spotify needs the ability to play local music is to play music that is not on Spotify. Most other services, including this Google one, let you upload your collection to play on any device.
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The only reason Spotify needs the ability to play local music is to play music that is not on Spotify. Most other services, including this Google one, let you upload your collection to play on any device.
Why would I want to waste bandwidth/traffic quota on music I have locally?
My collection is quite large, it is backed on a hard drive and also available on Play Music.
Since they have a good matching algorithm, uploading an album is often instantaneous.
It is probably not for everyone, but I really like this service.
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Why would I want to waste bandwidth/traffic quota on music I have locally?
because that way you don't need to keep these files locally. My collection is quite large, it is backed on a hard drive and also available on Play Music. Since they have a good matching algorithm, uploading an album is often instantaneous. It is probably not for everyone, but I really like this service.