Google Music natively on Linux

http://packetfire.org/content/google-music-all-access-natively-linux

by Tiksi • 12 years ago

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durzagott• 12 years ago

This looks brilliant, thank you for such a comprehensive guide. I look forward to trying this out tonight at home.

can someone explain to me how google can hold deduplicated files of copyrighted works and give access with only an assumption that the user uploading has the right to do so?

or is that just "not how it works"?

if it is how it works, what kind of questions can google be asked by copyright holders about those who are uploading?

their lobbying and legal department must be so far ahead of the content owners that it's not even funny.

sp3322• 12 years ago

I thought it was similar to iTunes "music match"? They pay a small amount of money to the copyright holders, who accept it on the premise that it's better to get some money for pirated music than none. Also it's a way to make former pirates "legitimate" without asking them to pay huge amounts of money for their collections. The copyright holders hope that they will stay straight after signing up.

Consultant32452• 12 years ago

After I uploaded my music collection to google music I've since bought 50 or so songs on the service. Before that I'd only purchased one CD from a local band in the last decade. So a good solid product at a reasonable price converted me.

chambo622• 12 years ago

Great post. I may check this out, although I usually need more flexibility than just playing radio.

It is pretty sad to me that in 2014, my Sandy Bridge Core i7 machine with 16GB RAM occasionally stutters while playing Google Music in Chrome.

throwawayaway2• 12 years ago

pretty sure the hardware isn't the problem then! could be your internet connection?

Tiksi4• 12 years ago

Thanks! I'm not much of a writer but I figured someone else might be looking for this, so I might as well put it out there. And you can do more than just radio, pretty much anything you can do on the web interface, you can do with GMusicProxy, short of uploading files.

nkozyra3• 12 years ago

That would give me pause considering I run it without issue on a much slower Mac and have in fact run it on 5-year-old PCs without that issue.

Tiksi4• 12 years ago

When you're pushing triple digits of open tabs, it can definitely become an issue. Plus the web interface runs on flash and support isn't great for Linux, even chrome's Pepper version has a ton of issues.

edit: Point being that playing an mp3 should never freeze any system built in this millennium, and yet it does. So this is a bit of a workaround to avoid that. Plus with this setup you can enable global media keys/hotkeys and get a lot more control over playing your music.

u124556• 12 years ago

I don't think streaming can beat having the actual files on disk (and owning them). Specially if you like listening to high quality flac instead of lossy compressed music.

simon_weber• 12 years ago

I'm the author of the unofficial client library OP referenced. It's great to see folks building such awesome things on it =)

Shameless plug: gmusicapi has plenty of contributor-friendly work for all skill levels. If you're interested, shoot me an email or feel free to dive right into some issues.

https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API

kingosticks• 12 years ago

If you were to go down the mopidy route instead, you could use the mopidy-gmusic extension and not bother with GMusic Proxy or those extra scripts. http://docs.mopidy.com/en/develop/ext/external/#mopidy-gmusi...

jboynyc• 12 years ago

Could you? It seems to me that mopidy-gmusic does not have All Access support. That's according to this issue: https://github.com/hechtus/mopidy-gmusic/issues/5

malnourish• 12 years ago

It does have all access support now but I can't get it to work at all for me.

Sodman• 12 years ago

For anyone interested in this purely for the hotkeys/media keys functionality that a desktop client provides, you should check out this chrome extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swayfm-unified-mus... I've only tried it on my dell latitude with media keys, but it works great.

nahiluhmot• 12 years ago

Awesome! It would be great to see this on the AUR.

Google Music natively on Linux

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