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Google Play Music Desktop Player for Mac

Stand alone desktop player for Google Play Music.

Free
In English
Version 4.7.1
2.7
Based on 3 user rates

Google Play Music Desktop Player overview

Google Play Music Desktop Player adds a level of customization that simply isn't there in the web player. You can change your theme, customize the colors, send your play history straight to last.fm, and it even has a built-in equalizer. From advanced audio controls to simple song change notifications, this desktop player literally does it all. Being a lightweight, standalone framework it will use FAR less resources than having Google Play Music open in a standard chrome tab. This frees up your computers resources to do things you care about, instead of wasting them on playing music.

The app is also open source on GitHub which means you, the community, gets a say in all the features we implement and you can even get involved and help out. If you find a bug or want something new, tell us in Gitter or on GitHub and we will see what we can do.

Google Play Music Desktop Player Features
  • Media Keys support (Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next)
  • Last.FM Scrobbling and Now Playing support!
  • Desktop notifications on track change
  • 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

What’s new in version 4.7.1

Version 4.7.1:

This is a minor release of Google Play Music Desktop Player. It's been a long time coming so quick shout out to everyone for struggling on and waiting for this release.

Fixed:
  • Arguably an important part of the app, you can now sign in again!
  • That pesky segfault on linux no longer happens, should make the linux folks happier!
  • You never knew it, but discord rich precense threw a lot of errors, now it doesn't
  • MPRIS on KDE should work again
  • Reloading custom styles actually works
New:
  • macOS Touch Bar support, there are buttons, and you can touch them, amazing!
  • There is a new Slack integration, if you want your co-workers to know you love Disney music, you can now tell them!
  • YouTube Music now shows up in the Discord Rich Precense integration
  • We now have translation support for Korean and Georgian
  • Better translations for Japanese, French, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Dutch Languages

Google Play Music Desktop Player for Mac

Free
In English
Version 4.7.1
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2.7

(2 Reviews of Google Play Music Desktop Player)

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elemgee21043
elemgee21043
Mar 2 2020
4.7.1
1.0
Mar 2 2020
1.0
Version: 4.7.1
Tried to download this several times on my MacBook. Kept getting the same message - "downloading music library" immediately after trying to download. Nothing happened. Gave up. Went and had a beer.
warez90
warez90
Oct 5 2017
4.4.1
4.5
Oct 5 2017
4.5
Version: 4.4.1
The only problem is that sometimes it stops responding to f7-f8-f9 hotkeys (play/pause, rewind etc.). Other than that no problems.
elemgee21043
elemgee21043
Mar 2 2020
1.0
Mar 2 2020
1.0
Version: null
DKENT213
DKENT213
Apr 12 2018
2.5
Apr 12 2018
2.5
Version: null
warez90
warez90
Oct 5 2017
4.5
Oct 5 2017
4.5
Version: null