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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 pen2l »

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 searching/discovery UI, and 2) its desktop application is slow and buggy as well)

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by mbilker »

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…

This is Electron-based, but it looks a lot more integration than a normal Electron skin. I consider it may be worth looking into especially with the media button integration.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by cespare »

> 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 isn't focused. Go to chrome://extensions/ and scroll down the Keyboard shortcuts to learn more.

(I'm sure that there are many other reasons people prefer desktop apps, but this was the big one for me.)

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by markdown »

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's basically Spotify

Looks pretty generic to me. Grooveshark had a similar look.

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by jc4p »

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 :)

Re: Unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Client

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Post by intopieces »

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…

From their perspective, they have a desktop application for Google Play Music in the form of the Chrome browser.
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