It should be option to disable song popup (at the bottom right corner of the screen) because It distracts (I got mail messages there, for example) and I don't want to know each time what song is playing right now as I'm listening to known music and already know them all.

But the main complain about distraction which I can't turn off.

A commonly requested feature is last.fm support.
Scrobbling current playing tracks

When it starts up it says it wants a flash update, allows me to download it, but then I can't start it

Seems like the mini player does not like to skip more than 1 or 2 songs using the arrow keys. Regular window does not have this issue. Also, the spacebar does not pause tracks in the mini player like it does in the regular window. Instead, spacebar makes the mini player revert back to the standard window.

It would be great if users will be able to control music player with global keyboard shortcuts (for those who don't have media keys) which can be customized. For example, Google Chrome allows to set keyboard shortcuts for extensions but they are very limited as user can't set just "F11" or "Ctrl+F9".

It could be done from some sort of setting menu or editing some config file (in order to add this feature faster and make it configurable from the app later).

Here are the main player function for hotkeys:

• Play/Pause (one shortcut for switching these two states)
• Next song
• Previous song
• Volume Up
• Volume Down
• Mute Volume

Less important but can be useful:

• "Like" current song. In order to add it to users library without opening the player. It would be good to show confirmation popup as feedback to user like action.
• "Add to playlist" current song. On this action player should open with playlist selector.
• Open player (just maximize it and send on top of all windows)

It'd be cool to be able to pick an output device from enabled devices on the pc.

eg: Default device is a USB headset, but I like to have music playing though speakers.

If possible it would be nice to have a portable version of this program that could be installed and store it's settings on a flash drive. It looks like the user settings file is the only file stored outside of the installation directory. Maybe this could be an option in the installer.

If a portable installation is selected I don't think the installer would require admin rights either which would be helpful for those on locked down computers.

It also may be possible to install a portable version of flash for this program, similar to what was done for Firefox over at PortableApps.com.

Hi,

I will also give it try to implement Last.fm scrobbling but wanted to throw this feature request out there if someone more skilled (or with more free time) wants to implement it before me :)

Desktop notifications are stealing focus for the brief time they appear. This is very frustrating when working/typing and the user is interrupted every time a new song plays.

Is it possible to have a setting to keep the Mini player's song info and controls always visible rather than just on a mouse over? Sometimes I like to recall what song is currently playing but having to mouse over the mini player after I focus it is an annoying extra step, especially if I just use alt-tab to switch focus.

Great work by the way!

A really awesome feature I'd like to see is the ability to have additional auto-playlists, such as one that can pull up music we've never listened to yet in our library, or perhaps music we haven't listened to in a long time. This is something I was hoping Google would implement, but is it possible it can be implemented on the client-side with this app?

GPM in Chrome uses a Chrome app as a mini player of sorts; it's not particularly good, but it does the job for people like me who love using mini players! I would love to see this app with an even better mini player implementation than the official Google one.

The minimize, maximize, and close window buttons appear in the Mini Player when it is not in focus. This is not happening on 1.60, but on the latest pulled version. Possibly related to Aero Snap or Resizing updates?

Currently you can only navigate back with the backspace key and forward by clicking the correct link again.

Should implemented forward and back arrows somewhere on the UI

Windows controls (Close, Min and Max) are not considering the border in WndProc so we must hide them in CreateParams

There are no thumbs up and down buttons in the Desktop Mini Player. The web player places them prominently, then includes the shuffle and and repeat buttons above them. Also, it looks like text is cut off when the album title is too long. However, the web mini player omits the album title completely, only showing the song and artist names. Thoughts?

The mini player implementation is great! I'd really love the ability to resize it though, as it's a little bit too big for my liking - and I can see it being an issue for people with lower resolution screens (unless it's resolution independent).

In the rare case (It hasn't happened yet) that something breaks GPM we should allow the user to manually reset the program to "original" state without having to manually delete the GPMDP folder in %APPDATA%.

Possibly a button that could go into the settings window mentioned in #26 and #27

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/89b2cfbc6e49a7941d36ec1dfbfa8000e7824a15426469ec65358f54f07f2472/analysis/1445943964/

It doesn't start up properly and a debug.log won't even be created in the first place. I've tried setting the compatibility mode to Windows 7 but it didn't work. Any other ways of debugging that would help you?

The black theme does not affect the confirmation dialog that pops up when you delete a playlist

It would be nice to hover over the icon in the taskbar and see the name of the band and song in that little preview window. I'm afraid you won't have much control over what's shown in there, but maybe you can change the title of the window and it will show up?

With the new window theme, it is no longer possible to snap the window to the left or right edge of the screen (and in the Windows 10, the corners).

• Genre lookup for radio
• Radio queue

Adding the custom theme setting to the labs section appears to have broken the original labs switches and now changing them fails with a GPM error message. Suggested fix is to move the custom theme switch to a settings window.

Possibly the same settings window as #26

Present the user with a color picker (possibly in some form of a settings window) to choose the highlight color of the dark theme.

It is not possible to resize the window vertically from the top edge of the window (including diagonally from the top-left and top-right corners). This is surprisingly important when the window is larger than the screen size (this can happen frequently in certain multi-monitor setups), as you cannot drag the window up in order access the bottom edge of the window.

Functionality of GPM such as:

• File upload
• Google+ Notifications
• Google App Selector

Should be disabled as it results in a bad UE if the user accidentaly navigates away from GPM through this features

Some Labs options have duplicated switches. See attached screenshot:

It just crashes on start. I'm running Win 7 x64. This might help I found an error in C:\Program Files (x86)\GPMDP\debug.log

[1125/081752:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(200)] Running without renderer sandbox
[1125/081824:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(200)] Running without renderer sandbox
[1125/081824:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1778)] Destroying invalid entry.
[1125/081851:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(200)] Running without renderer sandbox
[1125/081851:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1778)] Destroying invalid entry.
[1125/081904:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(200)] Running without renderer sandbox
[1125/081904:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1778)] Destroying invalid entry.

Doesn't seem like there is an obvious way to do so, unless I'm missing something? Do I have to change some file?

It would be nice if the player remembered the window size (and perhaps position?) upon closing and restores this next time the app is opened (rather than initialises at the default 1080x720)

When using Google Play Music in Chrome, a desktop notification appears when the track changes. This would be a super useful feature, especially if it used the new notifications in Windows 10.

Can't even sign in without it crashing D;

The minimize, maximize and close buttons are being overlapped by the Windows window frame controls on Windows 7 Enterprise. Attached a little screenshot on how it looks like.

Why describe it, when you can screenshot it.
All I did was to install it, nothing else.

This issue is very rare but for some reason when closing the application it displays windows "not responding" dialog. This means an exception is being thrown and not caught. Trying to replicate in a debug enabled build

Please, add lyrics panel or something like Lyrics Here plugin.

After you sign in for the first time the customization JS files are not injected. This is due to the "inject once" nature of the ResourceManagerFactory

On displays which require Windows' High DPI scaling, such as my QHD+ Dell XPS 13 (250%), the window border controls and the mini player do not scale with the rest of the application. While the border controls are not a huge issue, this means that to use the mini player, I have to use "disable display scaling on High DPI settings" in the properties menu, which causes the entire application to become extremely blurry due to upscaling.
This is the main window, note the tiny window controls:

This is the mini player (yes, this is the entire thing). It is impossible to exit it:

Change the updater logic to download 64bit / 32bit builds depending on the current install. Related to #16

I'd like to make a feature request: Much in the same way that you can use Control+Scroll Wheel to increase or reduce the font size (and UI scaling) in the browser when you are visiting Google Play Music, it would be very awesome if you could scale the font and UI in this application. I find the default text size a bit too big and so I usually reduce the scaling to 75%. Not only is the text smaller, but you can fit more content on the screen. More albums to browse, more music to choose from. Seeing as how there is no context menu or any application-specific menus, this might need to be implemented only as a keyboard shortcut initially.

Cheers!

When using the dark theme the curated playlists (top of listen now page) have white text on white background, you can only see them when you mouse over.

Really like the program though, Google should have done this a long time ago.

The side buttons on a mouse, commonly used to navigate forwards and backwards on websites, do not function in GPMDP. The user is forced to use the backspace key to navigate backwards. This issue does not exist in the web version of Google Play Music.

Any CPU seems like it is always building 32 bit.....can we get a dedicated 64 bit version in addition to 32? Thanks!

If you open two instance of GPMDP and play music in one it stutters strangely. I think we should only allow one instance of GPMDP open at a time...

Version 1.6 brought up better looking frame, but minimize/maximize animation isn't working now.

Hi, I would love to disable the notification toaster.

Thanks for your excellent app, I've been waiting for something like this for ages.

Looks like the notifications are cut off. Perhaps it is because my taskbar is on the right? Also, for long song info, the text is very small, nearly unreadable.