Google Play Music™ Desktop Player

Windows:
MacOS / Linux:

Run "Google Play Music" as a standalone desktop app. 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..

Developed by Samuel Attard.

No affiliation with Google. Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc.

Download

Head over to our website http://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com to download the latest release for your platform.

OS Support

• Windows 7 or later
• Mac OS X 10.9.0 or later
• Ubuntu 14.04 or later
• Mint
• Fedora
• Debian

Features

• Supports media keys (play, pause, stop, next, previous)
• last.fm & ListenBrainz Scrobbling and Now Playing support!
• Discord Rich Presences Now Playing information
• Hands free Voice Controls!
• Desktop notifications on track change
• A simplistic mini player
• Dark Theme
• Customizable accent color + CSS support
• Task bar media controls (media controls embedded into the taskbar) Windows only
• Smooth scrolling and overlay scrollbars for a nicer User Experience
• HTML5 Audio Support - No more Adobe Flash Player 👍
• Minimize to task bar for background music playing
• Customizable hotkeys, no worries if you don't have media keys. Choose your own shortcuts
• Choose your audio output device from within the player
• Song Lyrics for those Karaoke nights
• And a whole lot more coming soon!

Integrating with GPMDP from External Applications

There are two methods you can use to integrate with GPMDP from an external application.

1. JSON Interface
2. Web Socket Interface

Both are documented in the Docs folder. For one time read access you should probably use the JSON interface. For an application that requires continuous updates as to the state of GPMDP or needs to control GPMDP you should use the Web Socket interface.

Issues

If you have any bugs / issues please check the FAQ first before raising an issue

Credits

Logo designed by @JayToe

Development

To get started just pull the repo and run the following

npm install
npm run build
npm start

To build the installers / release packages you need to run, you can only build a platforms installer from that platform.

# Windows
npm run make:win

# Mac OS X
npm run make:darwin

# Ubuntu (Requires the 'dpkg' package)
npm run make:deb

# Fedora (Requires the 'rpm' package)
npm run make:rpm

All releases will be signing with my Code Signing Certificates (Authenticode on Windows and Codesign on OS X)

Please see the development FAQ for additional requirements for building.

Contributing

If you find something wrong (theming issues, app crashes) please report them as an issue.
If you think you can add something cool or fix a problem, fork the repo and make a pull request :D

NOTE: Some of the functionality in this app has been extracted into smaller submodules. In particular

• Google Play Music Interaction - https://github.com/gmusic-utils/gmusic.js
• Theming - https://github.com/gmusic-utils/gmusic-theme.js
• Mini Player - https://github.com/GPMDP/gmusic-mini-player.js
• Electron Chromecast - https://github.com/GPMDP/electron-chromecast

Dev Requirements

• Node.js (Recommend 6.3.x)
• NPM (3.x.x)

Continuous Integration

We run tests and generate signed installers on three CI platforms

• Windows --> AppVeyor
• Linux & OS X --> Circle CI

You can download the latest signed installers for Windows from the artifacts section of AppVeyor
You can download the latest linux (debian and fedora) and OS X (darwin) builds from the artifacts section on Circle CI

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Samuel Attard

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.