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There's a really slick desktop app for play music here: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I've used it for a while and it's pretty nice, and works with multimedia keys and has some other nice features, too.
> United States, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. It will expand to Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in the coming weeks.
FINALLY YOUTUBE RED IS IN MY COUNTRY TY GOOGLE
> there will also be a “brand new desktop player” for YouTube Music.
Also rip gpm desktop player
I use the unofficial GPM desktop app, and it works a lot better, and is a standalone not forced in a browser. Try it, I recommend it (oh and its cross-platform): https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
While there is no official desktop application, there is a pretty good 3rd party one that works pretty nicely.
Also, I have not encountered the problem of songs not playing without buffering in between. That seems rather weird to me
Google Play Music Desktop Player - A must have if you have Google Play All Access. Works great on Windows, but is a little sluggish on Linux (but still recommended)
Yup, that and Spotify Connect is why I haven't switched to GPMAA...
Although GPMDP is really good, and WAYYYY better than the Spotify client.
Edit: for those you who don't know about the best Google Play Music desktop client, Google Play Music Desktop Player (GPMDP)
I actually tried that, but I really want a desktop app to be supported. Having to use a browser bugs me, especially when I close a window just to have the tunes stop playing. There are workarounds to this problem, and I know of the open-source wrappers people have developed for the desktop, but when I tried the latter I experienced a whole host of bugs.
I actually went and downloaded this and it's way, way different from when I last tried it out...
If I pay can I go to artist pages and play specific songs? I seem to only have radio and playlist access right now
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ actually has a youtube music alpha - just right click on the icon in the system tray to switch between GPM and YTM. The only thing I've found broken with it since installing is last.fm scrobbling.
Eu uso o google music porque também permite fazer upload da nossa própria biblioteca, gosto da aplicação Android q.b. e funciona bem com a minha chromecast. Não ter aplicação desktop oficial é chato, mas há uma solução porreira para isso.
Here's a fully functional program version made by a 3rd party, I use it and it works great. I wish Google would stop fucking about and make their own though
nit-picky sidenote: Google Play Music doesn't have a desktop app. The program in the screenshot is gpmdp, which is an open source electron wrapper thing for Google Play Music. It's pretty cool, mainly because the official web app (or rather, flash) only works with ALSA, as far as I can tell.
I wanted to throw this out there. There is a third party developed desktop app for windows that is very well done. There is also a remote application on the Play Store. With that said, I still use the browser the majority of the time. I don't need to sync anything to my phone over USB so an app isn't too necessary. Any changes I make to playlists in the browser update to my phone.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
GPM also lets you upload your own mp3 library. I forgot the number but wasn't it like 30k files?
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You can even grab album artwork from Google Images and upload it so your library looks colourful :)
However, I would recommend this 3rd party desktop wrapper over the web player.
I remembered that Google Play Music streaming is included with YouTube Premium and immediately checked for the album on there.
GPM has a killer, open-source desktop client by the name of GPMDP if y'all are looking for dedicated music apps. It has custom theming and a nice mini player.
Edit: If you've been using BeardedSpice (which doesn't support GPMDP) for OS X Mojave media controls, GPMDP actually has native media key support
For what it's worth, for GPM I use Google Play Music Desktop Player (https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/) and it works wonderfully for me. Because of this, I hold out hope that someone will make a YT Music Desktop app as well.
Of course, it's not lost on me that Google should be the one creating it.
You can get GPDMP which is honestly the best desktop music client I've come across yet. It has Discord Rich Presence integration. It's not Spotify levels of good as far as polish goes, but it's close!
There is a pretty good open-source Google play music desktop player available for all Linux distros. You can just go over to their website and download the package (when it asks debian or fedora use fedora, 64 or 32 bit, depending on your system). Then unpack it using:
rpm -i Google-playblahblah.rpm
And then you will have a neat Google play music desktop player.
Good luck!
So the host is actually Windows 10 with a mac-looking looking theme Dragoon X.
The notification-looking thing is actually a program called Google Play Music Desktop Player and it's collapsed into album view. So really you're just looking at a floating Arch Linux desktop inside of my Windows 10 desktop with another floating window of GPMDP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What doesn't work, the sound? You can try this, it lets you control what sound output it uses, maybe it will help (but be warned that it's still the web app, packed in a portable Chrome): https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I use a desktop player someone made to get around that. Also for whoever downvoted me I don't work for Google and I'm not defending their decisions. I'm letting people know there are ways to get around Google's choices that I too have to work around.
Desktop app for GPM and YTM (not official): https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
Also, you can make separate channels under your account to keep video and music likes and subscriptions entirely separate.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861?hl=en
Migrating playlists is supposed to come... someday
For #3, try Google Play Desktop: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ . It isn't a store app, but the latest version has pretty good Win 10 integrations
>more functional
bruh gpm is the service that lets you upload music, has an (unofficial) desktop player that is quite customizable, and gives you Youtube Red with a subscription, iirc. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of with GPM is the mobile app, which could easily be fixed if Google added a dark mode and some optimizations (chromecasting with the app is awful)
I went down this same path and finally just downloaded the Google Music Desktop Player. It has built-in support for hotkeys and even has lyrics. It is one of the first things I use Chocolatey to download when I get a new computer. Good luck!
Totally, but that's a Play Music issue rather than Assistant. But yes, stupid, especially considering the unofficial desktop client allows for skipping of down-thumbed tracks.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
No reason why the official app shouldn't be able to do this.
Google Music's my pick. It sits in your browser and doesn't glug up your non-Apple devices up like iTunes does. AND you get ad-free YouTube, which just feels great. Plus a few other nice perks like being able to turn off your phone screen and still play the audio from YouTube videos.
There is an open source desktop player if you want it too, nice and light.
It also makes it very easy to upload your own tracks, just drag and drop and they automatically go into the cloud and slot into your library. So you can buy that obscure Japanese chiptunes track off Bandcamp and have it sitting next to your Maroon 5 albums. I think that there's an extra step or two to do the same with Spotify, is that right Spotify users? Not sure.
One thing Google Play severely lacks is the sociability of Spotify. The playlist sharing community isn't nearly as robust - sorry, you won't be able to subscribe to Britney Spears's Me Time Mix. But if you're like me that doesn't matter.
This is a setting within the unofficial Google Play Music Desktop Player, not within the Google Play Music service in the browser. It's a third-party desktop app, because Google won't make one.
I used to get this when Windows Defender was running its anti malware scan. I think it's a flash issue rather than a Firefox issue, but I had no issues in chrome. Never found a way to fix it. I now use this which is good as long as you have a coupla hundred megs of RAM lying around unused.
u/rvrtex posted an awesome suggestion in elsewhere in this thread that worked perfectly for getting Google Music to work for this. The only thing I'd add to their instructions would be to use Google Music Desktop Player since you'll need to change the audio output device to the virtual cable, which I don't think you can do if you're using the Google Music web app.
Everything has been working well for me. Do you have any extensions that may not be playing nice with it (like, trying in an incognito window to see what happens). Maybe try the unofficial desktop player? https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
My current favorite local storage music player for Linux is Gmusicbrowser. With a certain configuration comes reasonably close to Musicbee for Windows. https://gmusicbrowser.org/
For cloud streaming Google Music Desktop Player. (Google Music free storage 50.000 songs). https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
If I recall correctly, the Monstercat Visualizer is integrated with Google Play Music as long as you use the Google Play Music Desktop Player and not a web browser, so it's probably easy to integrate with that platform specifically.
Even for the desktop app there's the 3rd party Google Play Music Desktop Player.
So there's basically no reason to use GPM while YTM is figuring out how not to endlessly recommend 90s hits in the radio for Mr. Oizo.
Not sure if this was suggested but all I can say is there is the desktop app someone made that has built-in dark mode. Not sure what the future will be once Google kills GPM in to "YouTube Remix."
Both of them are beautiful players. Enjoy! (p.s you can use the web player too)
Why the hate for electron apps? I am pretty attached to GPMDP which is written in electron. It seems to use a fair amount of CPU for what it does, but otherwise I have no complaints.
Uso o Google Play Music porque ele te dá 50.000 na nuvem de graça, então eu acabei criando meu próprio serviço de streaming.
No PC eu uso um player feito por um cara que funciona muito bem https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
One electron app that I think is really good is the google play music desktop app created by someone here on reddit.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
It does a good job being multi platform and integrating into the desktop.
I use this. You can setup shortcuts to skip songs and everything in the settings. Also has a night mode so unlike the webpage, you don't blind yourself.
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I didn't quite get if you'd prefer not to use a desktop client at all, but if that isn't the case, I currently use this one, and it's really great! As far as I see it asks for no unnecessary permissions:
Link: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/#! - It works for Windows, Mac and Linux
The point is, it also has an API for media keys and much more features. Good Luck!
I've been using this unofficial desktop version for quite a while. It's regularly updated and works well. it also has a dark theme with customizable accent colors.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
This is one of the the main reasons I still use GPM almost all of my listening is done on PC while playing WoW. The Iphone app is horrendous, how the art work is displayed is frustrating, the constant music stopping and having to hit play and pause over and over to get it to start. I love YouTube Red that also keeps me around but my most of my YouTube viewing is done on PC with adblockers so that's not really an issue but it is very nice when I occasionally watch on the phone or roku.
For Android and iOS off course Google Music app via their appstores but for Windows, MacOS and Gnu/Linux very good is Google Play Music Desktop Player: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ . And in Windows Store for Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/gpmdp/9nblggh3zpph .
Google Play Music actually has a desktop client you can download. It's an open source project developed by a group of really dedicated developers. It's essentially exactly like the web app but with a few extra add-ons. I'd highly recommend getting it. It runs faster than the web app in my experience, and I love the ability to create hotkeys for different actions.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ It's an unofficial version of Google Play. It's a better option than the web browser but it still have it's limitation like not being able to listen to music while offline
This. When I first started using Play Music, I completely fell in love with the algorithm that handles radio stations, but after like a month it started to get old real fast.
And by the way, I use the desktop player, an open source program that I find WAY better than the web interface. It is still missing a normalizer though, and Play Music is in dire need of a normalizer for radio stations.
I love the Android app. It's super intuitive, follows the Material design guidelines and works really well. It's ridiculously slow to start up, but once it's open and playing it works a treat.
For playing on desktop I found out about this: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ I was using Radiant Player before, but this one feels a bit more responsive.
There is a chrome plugin that gives you a dark-theme to Google Music. The Google Music Desktop Player also has a (I think couple) dark themes. Only one missing now is the mobile app.
I wonder if a desktop/web app is something a 3rd party developer could do through an API? I use 3rd party desktop apps now for Google Music and, on my work computer, Hangouts.
I use the 3rd party hangouts app (YakYak) on my work computer because I don't want to sign into my personal google account on Chrome on there.
Play Music like mentioned is not the nicest app. But since few months podcast support. Though many podasts not yet added to library, perhaps in near future an viable option. And free storage of 50.000 songs.
Cross platform support any browser and apps iOS and Android. For Windows, OSX and Linux application Google Music Desktop Player by Samuel Attard is very nice: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I use Pocket Casts for podcasts.
So here's my situation:
I used to use Spotify, but noticed that:
A) a ton of the weirder indie music I like wasn't on there at all (stuff like Future Funk, Dreamwave, early Vaporwave, "Cave Music", etc.); or it would just yeet me over to more mainstream stuff after a few songs.
B) I just hate the UI/UX. It keeps trying to suggest stuff I don't like, it keeps trying to suggest stuff my friends listen to (which I usually hate), buttons I actually use a lot are tucked away in menus instead of being prominent...
The thing that got me to try YouTube Music is https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ a fan-made windows app that lets me have YTM installed as an app instead of just a browser tab!!!
With a bit of configuration, stuff like being able to upvote/downvote with keyboard shortcuts is amazing and helps me fine-tune the algorithm to a crazy degree! This is to the point that the custom playlists it makes based on my preferences are nearly perfect each time, with a good mix of mostly stuff I know I like and new stuff that I mostly enjoy.
Then there are the "Vanced" YouTube and YTM apps on Android, which can be used for hacking away adds, but I use alongside YT Premium for some added functionality and the "Sponsor Skip" plugin (automatically skips video intros/subscription reminders, etc).
These two together make for an amazing Android and Windows experience!!
I haven't used it in years but pretty sure GPMDP (a third party app) had this as an option (toggle play or queue as primary action) but it seems to be abandonware now since GPM is long gone.
try one of these..
YouTube Music Desktop App - fairly new. very polished, almost like PWA version. works well. It even adds a few buttons in the media bar, I really like having the add to playlist button.
Google Play Music Desktop Player - the og unofficial google music player supports ytm, you just launch it in ytm mode from taskbar icon and it works flawlessly.
Both can integrate with your os, support media keys, have background playback, last.fm scrobbling, discord rich presence, etc.
I settled for GPMD as it runs way more efficiently (190-250 MB RAM) than YTMD (~500 MB or more) probably because it's an electron wrapper. Might be something to consider if you have potato for a pc. Also, it's older and much more developed, just needs to drop gpm branding and strip down related code. ALSO, it has voice control, wut?
This is the one I use https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ They added support for YTM, and best I can tell it's just a web-wrapper. So you're just looking at the web page, but it's organized better and works better and lets you stay logged into a different brand or main account on Youtube. If you have 2-factor set up,your account should still be safe.
This is another one: https://ytmdesktop.app/
Alternatively, just install a beta or dev version of Google Chrome and use it to log into YTM, and just use that browser for YTM.
So I have a brand account for YT for the same reason you do. What I do is use my web browser for YT so it ways launches with my brand account and then use a seperate YTM desktop app. I haven't had to switch accounts manually for a while.
I also use a different picture for my profile pics so it's very easy to see which account I'm using.
The desktop player I use is this one (I think)
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
Hope this helps....
I use Google Play Music Desktop player & haven't had any issues at all playing the songs I want. I wonder if your Library transferred over correctly, or if you are blocking any necessary cookies/scripts on the browser or network side (e.g. blocking for privacy).
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ -- FYI They support YouTube Music and it's easy to switch to it from Google Play Music, with the click of a button.
For those who want a desktop app, https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/.
It was for Google Play Music but now you can switch into "YT Music" mode and play YT Music stuff, it has Discord integration and alot more added features that you'd expect from a desktop music app. Once GPM is killed by Google, it'll be a YTM desktop player only.
If you're looking for an alternative, Google Play Music Desktop works great. You can switch between Google Play Music, and Youtube Music. That's the one I've been using.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ ( supports YTM as well )
This and it lets you be signed into youtube as one account and google music as another desktop only though..
On Android, YouTube and YouTube Music seem to be separate as well. My workaround on desktop is using a YouTube Music Desktop Player.
I've used this one for Google Play Music, and they currently have a beta for YTM (you just switch to YTM in app) https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I also just found this. I haven't personally tried it, but it looks pretty similar. https://ytmdesktop.app/
I don't use chrome at all. So I looked but couldn't find de the extension. I'm not sure why... But I recomend you this application: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ You can use it for Youtube Music too. It's a program you install and works as a Web Applications and has some settings too. Hope it helps you :)
Browser or mobile? On mobile I've never had it switch accounts/channels on me between the YouTube app and the YTM app. On the browser I use the Google Desktop Player in YTM mode to keep it on the right channel.
I also have a channel specific for when the kids are listening to keep their songs out of my recommendations, so I find it a really useful feature.
If you're interested, there's an open source GPM Desktop Player. It integrates with the Windows built in music controls, similar to how Spotify works. I've been using this for the past few years
There isn't an official one, just the Chrome extension.
Personally I use Google Play Music Desktop Player since they added an option to use YTM for playback.
I don't know, but I do use this one:
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
It's good if you you separate YouTube and YT Music accounts and you can switch between GPM and YT Music. Good day!
I personally use the GPMDP. Lets me switch between Google play music and youtube music and has basically all of the feature you need for a desktop music player.
This is the unofficial but de facto standard desktop app for google play music/youtube music:
It's basically the website but wrapped up and made into a standalone desktop app with a bunch of integrations.
Mean this one: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
See end of this issue for fixed test builds: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/issues/3545
But be aware, it WILL break again at some point in the future when Google changes something. You might want to migrate to more open service.
Does "Google Play Music Desktop Player" meet your needs? https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I know it's called "Google Play Music..." but it can be easily switched to YouTube Music by right clicking on the tray icon (in Windows).
It basically puts the web interface into an application but it has some extended support for Windows integration and themes, etc.
If you're looking to use GPM on the desktop, and do it with a more native application, you can use Google Play Music Desktop Player. It has a dark mode and custom colors, in addition to using your own styling if you want. Plus it integrates with your media keys and such. The app is essentially a wrapper for the website, with added functionality.
Play Midnight looks like just a Chrome extension that gives you ability to theme. So it's simpler and you don't have to install any extra applications.
Yeah. I use the unofficial desktop player to avoid that on desktop (it can switch to YTM via the notification icon right click menu). It's mostly a box with the web player in it, but it's a separate box.
1) If you want to upload your own library to a free web service I don't think you have a choice (right?). So it doesn't matter, enjoy while it lasts. Anyway "it's going to be shut down next year" basically since always. The fact that the youtube music app isn't evolving much, probably means that google doesn't care about either of them at this point. I'd say it is in "if it ain't broken don't fix it" development cycle, until the next big thing comes along.
2) yes https://play.google.com/music/listen#/manager https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
I use an app called Google Play Music Desktop Player. They just added the ability to switch between Google Play Music and Youtube Music. Hotkeys for skick, pause etc within the app work while in any game whether playing games in fullscreen or windowed.
Cool. Btw I just discovered that apparently https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
has this functionality, and it supports YouTube music (apparently). I'll return to the thread once I have confirmed both, altho I encourage others to try it out also (it works on Android, Windows, and iOS coming).
Oh nono, up to 50'000 songs are uploaded to their cloud and added to your "music library", accessible anywhere!
Here's the program that synchronizes your folders of choice with your online Music Library
And here's a Play Music Desktop program for using Google Play Music on your pc
It looks like Google Play Music Desktop Player with a dark theme like https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/wiki/Themes
I've been using this desktop app for a couple years. I originally used it with GPM, and they eventually added support for YTM. I now use it regularly with YTM. It's fantastic! https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
The problem you are describing seems to be on the file metadata. (Maybe on one album they have Album Artist or a different genre o a blank space in the end of Album Name). Select the album, the select Album Information and copy all all the information to the second album with the name. THIS ONLY CAN BE MADE ON THE WEBSITE. There's some apps like GPM Desktop Player but are kinda the same as the web.
I like GPMDP and it can do everything you listed except sort by date (AFAIK). It's not perfect and not ideal for libraries vs streaming, but it's the best streaming service I've found
Does it take you to a real Google login page, or a fake one? Cause Google has a third party app auth workflow for exactly this purpose... Same for Facebook and the others.
I use https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com and it has a Google login workflow (obviously you need to login to Google to use Google things...).
Sorry for dragging up an old post.... but I think I can solve one of your problems with YouTube Music.
You should check out this GM/YTM Desktop App, it solves all your problems in the 'No Computer Application' section. It's main feature are....
- Media Keys support (Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next)
- Last.FM Scrobbling and Now Playing support!
- Desktop notifications on track change - (can be switch off/on)
- Simplistic mini player
- Customizable dark theme
- Taskbar media controls (media controls embedded into the taskbar) Windows only
- HTML5 audio support - No more Adobe Flash Player
- Built-in audio equalizer - Make it sound how you like it
- Background music playing, minimize to the task bar
- Customizable hotkeys. No worries if you don't have media keys - Choose your own shortcuts!
- Choose your audio output device from within the player
- Interface for external applications such as Rainmeter
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The desktop app, works for both GM and YTM (switchable via the taskbar - Handy if you have music uploaded to GM) . I've used for years at work with no issues. Plus it's free!
I have Google Play Music and Spotify (family plans), and while I have definitely liked Google Play Music more in the past, it seems to have become pretty buggy with the attempted move to YouTube Music: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-play-music-bug-stops-songs-chromecast/
If you do switch I really like this desktop player, but like I said recently due to GPM changes things have gotten buggy :( : https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
The best thing about GPM is that you can upload ~50,000 songs to their cloud and then stream them down as if they were in the cloud. Very useful for mixtapes and things that are not official enough to be on Spotify/GPM by default.
I use Google Music Desktop Player. After updating Apex, every time I start the game is causes it (Google Music) to stop responding. Super weird but I've tested it with a few other games and Apex is the only one causing this.
+1 for Google Music. I'm also using Google Play Music Desktop Player. It integrates pretty well with Windows and Linux (or, at least, it integrates very well with the KDE DE). https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
I've been using play music and Spotify for quite a while and it was a tough decision for me to make. Specially when all my family has Android, were part of a family and I wanted to choose between one ofem. I think the thing that made me choose Google was because how comfortable it's experience was for me, you could upload your music, have it play metal radios by just one click, adds were shorter than Spotify, and overall they were offering the same deal for family package. But when time passed I wanted to try Spotify premium since all my friends have it. The one thing that stopped me was the deal on YT, GPMusic, and YTMusic for a family package which made me stay away from Spotify. Now it's been over a month that I have used YTMusic and I've got to say it understands the type of songs that I like more than the other two. Let's say I want to Listen to Rap or Hip Hop but I really love Metal and Jazz, once in a while in Rap radio it plays me Metal or Rock or Jazz, it keeps the experience feel more alive and entertaining. For now YTMusic is for me a chosen music streaming platform. Sure not such great UI but amazing AI behind it. Also I recommend to get this for your desktop if you listen to GPMusic on desktop: https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
Play Music seems to have authorized the same device multiple times and over a short time, I haven't removed any of the dupes yet as I'll hit the yearly limit of 4 devices very soon. The device I've been using to upload music for ages isn't authorized anymore either. I'm generally using a VPN, also I use the third party desktop player. Any ideas whats causing this? suggestions for alternate services welcome too, this'll make GPM unusable unless I can fix it
Google Play Music Desktop Player is a multi-platform desktop app (Windows, macOS and Linux) made by u/MarshallOfSound that scrobbles to Last.fm and now supports YouTube Music.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ supports Google Play Music and Youtube Music. This is a third party desktop application using Electron to access Google Music and Youtube Music as an API.
Source code for it: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-
You go into the desktop settings and change the service to Youtube Music if you want to use Youtube Music, to be honest they're basically the same thing, so implementing the difference is really simple. The only difference between the two music platforms is where the songs come from and how they're voted with popularity.
This is a feature of https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/, a desktop client for GPM. Here's a screenshot of how it looks.
It doesn't have the "Click to listen" thing like Spotify though, and there's no way to change that without Discord and Google working together on it
https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1075570?hl=en
Here is a link. That site also has the instructions on how to setup the uploading process. And here is an unofficial google play music player so you can play the musics, that you have uploaded, on your computer. You can delete the musics from your computer once it has uploaded. I use these two on my own pc.
I know I'm pretty late to this party, but I thought google put out a free desktop client recently. Haven't tested, but looks pretty nice and seems pretty feature rich. GPM desktop client (full OS support for the curious)
The downloadable desktop client for GPM is made by a third party, so if you don't want to use the web player, I'd ping that developer (and maybe paypal donate?).
I think a big reason the desktop client for GPM (and now YTM, also everything else from inbox to keep) is web-based is for chromebook users? Sure you can use Spotify web on a chromebook but it's watered down, and if google were to water down their own services for their own OS, that would be a dick move for those who use their OS?
Have you tried Google Play Music Desktop Player? While it’s not an official desktop app, it’s very well done.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
I don’t use google music anymore and it’s been awhile since I’ve used it though.
> Why not use the officially supported web-interface?
The usual reason is to add features that Google won't add and that are hard or impossible to implement with a browser extension. For example, I use GPMDP because it exports currently playing info to the filesystem so you can use it in scripts. I am not seeing what Inboxer does that would justify adding an electron app to my desktop though.
I used Spotify for a long time, when GPM came out I also subscribed to it to give a try. I've since cancelled Spotify and have been using GPM basically everyday since it came out.
You can get a 30-day trial if you're a first time subscriber, sometimes they do 3 or 4 month trials.
With a GPM Subscription you also get YouTube RED.
If you want a dedicated Desktop player I highly recommend https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
The fact is, I subscribe to both, for different reasons. $25/year for iTunes Match isn't a lot of money for the convenience, integration, and peace of mind it provides me (essentially backing up my large library of tracks that aren't commercially available.) Google Play Music is $95 more per year. And yet, syncing via iTunes works a lot better than Google's "Music Manager" software. For playback I've also used Radiant, as well as Google Play Music Desktop Player, and I just don't find them as enjoyable and extensible as iTunes. I have Chromecast and I have AppleTV already, and I prefer using the AppleTV. Chromecast requires you to send the music from another device, whereas AppleTV has an actual on-screen interface and doesn't rely on a smartphone/tablet/computer for the navigation. In the end, the biggest reason I've paid for Google Play is because it includes YouTube Red, which gives me ad-free YouTube and some other features.
To each his/her own, everyone has different priorities and equipment to cater to.