It would be awesome if this app supported scrobbling to last.fm!

It would be useful to add back and forward buttons in, similar to what Rdio did. You could even look at replacing the Google Play logo with them.

I believe that the generally accepted behavior for Command+W is to close the active window, but keep the application running in the background.

Forgive me if I'm not using the correct Cocoa terminology.

This is definitely a minor issue, but is there any way to add in any sort of auto-update feature, or at the very least some sort of update check that prompts you to go manually download a new version?

Is it possible to create a cache option? Similar to Spotify, where the songs are saved on disk and you don't download them again every time.

Not totally offline cache but a cache to save bandwidth.

Need some way to inform the user as well as disable flash block inside the app.

Other than changes in ObjectiveC and various things (i.e: Notification centre not existing), how difficult would it be to backport this to 10.5/PowerPC support? There are still a few of us that could benefit from a working google music app on our (aging) platform of choice. ;)

Something that I've just realised is missing is navigation buttons. I was clicking through albums earlier and realised I couldn't go back a page. In Chrome you would use the navigation buttons, but since this is self contained, there aren't any.
I remembered I could use the backspace key to go back a page, however it isn't too obvious if you don't know this browser shortcut.

I love the native look of the header bar, the playback controls, and the sidebar... however I am not such a fan of the iTunes look within the main window (used for finding albums, artists, songs, etc.)

It'd be really nice if I could keep the "outside" styles enabled, while the "inside" styles are left as Google had them.

Hello and thanks for great product!
Any chance to add DLNA device support?

I'm on OSX 10.8.4 Mid 2013 MacBook Air. I'm not seeing the notifications when tracks switch (yes, it's turned on in the settings). I've tried with and without the album artwork. I don't see an option for it in the notification center either. I've checked console and there are no errors there either.

A Requirements section in the README would be very helpful. Something like this:

• Adobe Flash Player for Mac OS X (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/)

As Adobe Flash Player is directly integrated with Google Chrome and enabled by default, and Chrome is my main browser, I had to download and install the Flash Player from Safari.

I tried to download the player from the WebView but I couldn't.

Go to any song or album and edit info; pushing the album art change button which is supposed to open the native file manager modal doesn't do anything.

I made a quick screencast with me reproducing the bug.

Let me know what else I can do to help you debug the thing.

Is there potential for Airplay support to allow for offloading of music playing to another device, without having to set it globally?

Is there a way to go back or forward with my mouse through the tool?

For exampel I am on my Listen Now tab, I click 1 band and go to about 5 more bands (from related bands area). Lets say I wanted to go back to the 2nd band I saw. I would have to go through the whole cycle again.

THIS IS AN AWESOME APP THANKS!

Cliff

When opening the app, I get the message:

You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to play music.
Download it from Adobe.

No issues playing directly from Chrome though

I LOVE YOU!
THANKS FOR DOING THIS! ❤️

Need to reposition the SwipeView subview of the WebView when the WebView resizes.

I am big on keyboard shortcuts. One thing that I find lacking in the google music web app is that there is no way to focus or navigate the browse pages. I'm not sure what is possible in a web view.

I see that / focuses search and up and down moves you between the nav or the currently highlighted song, but on a list of search results/artists/albums/songs there is no way to bring focus to that list and navigate using the keyboard.

Once you have a song selected (by clicking on it) then the up and down keys work.

What I think would be amazing would be bringing gmail style navigation to all browse views. So the j key would step forward one item at a time, k key would go back one item at a time (just giving them an active state or highlighting them) and enter would click the link to navigate to that section or play the song.

I think this would let you navigate most of the app using only keyboard.

As someone who lives in the Google ecosystem, I'd love to be able to send music to my Chromecasts.

Hi,

first: thanks for this awesome player!

The system-wide keyboard shortcut ⌘+A to select the complete input content doesn't seem to work in the search field. I use it when issuing a lot of quick searches to quickly clear the input.

This one may be a bit of a stretch outside of Chrome, but it would be a great feature to bring it into full parity with the web app.

Up until this point I've been using Google Music within Chrome in addition to the Sway.fm Media Keys extension which allows me to use the media keys on my Mac as well as Last.fm scrobbling.

To me, it's very important to have Last.fm scrobbling in any music player I use. :) However, I love the look of this app as well as being able to have Google Music as a standalone app and really would prefer to use it.

Might be a small gripe, but it's annoying me. Shouldn't the entire height of the "Application Window Title Bar/Frame" allow the user to move the application? Currently you have to click in a small height section where the window title "Google Music" is to move the application on screen. You should be able to do it with the entire gray top title area. I've added an image to further illustrate what I'm saying. Red area is current target area to drag the application. Red + Blue area should be the target hit area to be able to move the application around. Thoughts?

I have two profiles with my Chrome. When I open the app, it opens my secondary Chrome profile, not the Default profile.

I'm not sure if these are things you've considered but I'd love to see an iTunes like MiniPlayer if it's possible. Similarly I'd love to see MenuBar controls.

Everything else is great though. Thanks for your effort on this project and keep up the good work!

I am have rated tracks in Google Music (in Chrome), yet the ratings are not marked in the Google Music Mac app.

Selecting and clicking objects in Adobe Fireworks CS6 doesn't work normally while this application is running (even minimized.) Selecting will work fine again once the Music application is terminated. This application should have no effect on other running applications.

Bundling the Flash Player makes it difficult to upgrade Flash Player when a new version has been released. It'll be easier to just rely on the Flash Player that Safari uses instead.

Could you pack it with brew-cask? Installing and updating would be a breeze then.

When I use the headphones that came with my iPhone to listen to music with this app and press the button, iTunes opens instead of the music being paused.

The behavior should be:
Single press: pause
Double press: next song
Triple press: previous song

@kbhomes I'll look at this over this weekend and see if it's easy to implement. If so, I'll send you a pull request.

I know it's only a lab on the official Google Music site, but it would be nice if this also supported playing the music in HTML5.

On a very related note, maybe figure out some way to make these styles more robust. Seems that Google's spritesheet generating mechanism regularly creates different spritesheets that relocate the thumbs up and down icons. Therefore we should try to figure out a way to move the thumbs up and down in each .song-row without changing the background-position.

Alternatively, we can have the app download and use the latest version of the stylesheet every time the application runs so that simple style changes can be pushed to everybody without requiring an update of the app every time. Alternatively, we could include a built-in style manager (tangentially, user provided styles, perhaps...?) that downloads the latest style, but that could be confusing as it creates two points of update for the user, the stylesheets and the app itself.

Pinch to zoom should be usable, as well as the standard ⌘+, ⌘-, and ⌘0 shortcuts.

The application should have a basic preferences window for the time being, with settings like:

• Enable/disable notifications
• Enable/disable album art in notifications
• Enable/disable custom stylesheet

Use Notification Center to show notifications whenever a song changes, thereby not requiring the user to view the app to see what the newly playing song is.

I was just wondering if there's any sort of release schedule for this project yet. :) I'm itching for some of the recent updates but unfortunately I don't have an OS X / Cocoa dev environment setup.

Update: Well, building that was easy. In any case, still curious about the planned release schedule?

Minimizing takes up space in the dock. Doing this would make it more like iTunes.

Nothing happens when clicking on the 'buy' button on an album. Should open up in default browser.

Some keyboard shortcuts when viewing the main application would be useful:

Volume:

• ⌥↑ to increase player volume
• ⌥↓ to decrease player volume

Rating:

• ⌘J to toggle thumbs up
• ⌘K to toggle thumbs down

Other:

• ⌘S to toggle shuffle
• ⌘R to change repeat mode
• ⌘T to toggle visualization

It would be great to be able to close the application window and have the app continue running/playing in the dock. As of now if you close the window the application completely closes.

I see in #23 that back/forward buttons were added, but it'd be really nice if we could use the OS X trackpad gestures for back/forward to do the same thing. This is how I typically navigate through Play Music.

This swipe indicator business is causing a lot of problems ...

Right now, swiping right does a "back", and swiping left does a "forward", which is backwards. Three finger swipe left should be back, and three finger swipe right should be forward

Hi, just wondering/hoping you could add support for the Chromecast plugin. Thx- ribbits

Should the cookies and etc. be shared with Safari (as is the current case)? When you log into Google from Safari, then you will already be logged in when you open Google Music. If you open Google Music and are required to login, then you will be logged into Google services when you open Safari.

Should these be separated or perhaps provide the option?

The text "Blocked Plugin" appears twice over the controls on the play bar on the bottom of the screen. I've restarted, reinstalled, and made sure the app had permissions. I'm running OSX Mavericks.

I think it's not possible to integrate the functionality of Chromecast support? ^^ It's based on Safari isn't it?