What's new in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.38
Aug 20, 2019
- Fixed issue with YouTube playback
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.37 (Jul 9, 2018)
- Fixed behavior where search results were jumping around in All Access making them hard to select
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.36 (Sep 11, 2017)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.35 (Sep 6, 2017)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.34 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fixed YouTube playback issue
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.33 (Mar 13, 2017)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.32 (Feb 23, 2017)
- Fixed issue with All Access search
- Fixed issue with YouTube songs
- Fixed issue with status bar buttons on Sierra
- Remembers now playing album art show/hide status between sessions
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.31 (Jan 31, 2017)
- Fixed issue with All Access search
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.30 (Sep 8, 2016)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.29 (Aug 15, 2016)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.28 (Jul 21, 2016)
- Fixed issue with Play Count not increasing on Google Music.
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.27 (Jun 26, 2016)
- Fixed problem affecting YouTube playback
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.26 (Jun 13, 2016)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.25 (Jun 3, 2016)
- Google Play music playback works again after a server side change
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.24 (Mar 22, 2016)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.23 (Mar 16, 2016)
- Fixed rare crash
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.22 (Feb 27, 2016)
- Fixed a minor crash during playback
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.21 (Jan 7, 2016)
- Fix playback of certain songs from YouTube
- Other minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.20 (Dec 9, 2015)
- Supports curated Google Music Radios (Genres, Moods, etc...) for All Access subscribers
- Now shows Album view by default for Library (but remembers last selected view)
- Ability to seek YouTube songs when they are not fully loaded yet
- YouTube faster login
- Fixed adding song to playlist and reordering songs of playlist in Google Music
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.08 (Nov 26, 2015)
- Fixed rare crashing behavior.
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.07 (Oct 29, 2015)
- Fixed playback related issues
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.06 (Oct 16, 2015)
- Fixed menu bar not responding right after start-up
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.05 (Sep 22, 2015)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.04 (Sep 3, 2015)
- Last.fm works again
- Fixed playback glitches
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.03 (Sep 2, 2015)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.02 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Fixed occasional skipping of tracks
- Fixed artists appearing multiple times in Artist view
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.01 (Aug 17, 2015)
- Fixed possible crash when sorting by 'Added on' column and playing a track
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.2.0 (Aug 16, 2015)
- An all new navigation bar with Artist, Album and Genre views (also in playlists and All Access now)
- When you select an Artist, you will be presented artist's albums
- Fixed Google Play radios not appearing
- Fixed autologin issues to Google Play
- Reduced CPU and memory footprint
- Many fixes and improvements
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.1.5 (Jun 9, 2015)
- Added Notification Center Today widget
- Updated design
- Ability to see narrower rows in song list
- Improved album art fetching
- Bug fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.1.0 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Visual updates
- Fixed ChromeCast issues
- Fixed Album view on Lion
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.0.4 (Feb 19, 2015)
- Fixed problem with playing certain songs from YouTube
- Fixed a problem causing ChromeCast to disconnect under specific conditions
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.0.3 (Jan 31, 2015)
- Fixed offline mode issues
- Fixed hangs under certain conditions
- Fixed other minor bugs
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.0.2 (Dec 16, 2014)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 2.0.0 (Dec 11, 2014)
- Cocoa theme optimized for Yosemite
- YouTube support, search for songs on YouTube and manage your playlists and favorites library
- Ability to download Google Music songs for later offline listening
- EQ setting now effects ChromeCast output
- Updated design
- Lots of minor improvements
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.7.2 (Oct 9, 2014)
- Fixed playlist fetching problem (due to server side change)
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.7.1 (Aug 20, 2014)
- A brand new icon
- Added option to order Album view by album name
- Fixed keyboard arrow navigation
- Fixed minor AirPlay volume issues
- Fixed sort order problem with disc column
- Fixed strange issues on startup under certain circumstances
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.7.0 (Aug 4, 2014)
- an editable queue where you can see and manage what's coming next
- ChromeCast as an output, queue displayed on TV screen
- optional 5 star ratings
- proper sorting by international characters
- updated design
- ability to collapse categories, hide album art
- radios are now reorderable
- play/pause by Apple microphone (Magic Keys update needed)
- ability to delete multiple playlists or radios at once
- scrobble songs on last.fm when repeating same song
- minor stability and usability fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.20 (Jun 3, 2014)
- added AppleScript support for play, next, previous songs, creating playlists and adding specific songs with from All Access via search (not documented yet, ask Support if necessary)
- fixed bug when rating All Access songs or modifying their metadata
- minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.11 (Mar 22, 2014)
- Automatically check for updates.
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.10 (Mar 21, 2014)
- Fixed problem causing song ratings and edited song metadata not to be updated on server side
- Update play count and last played date properly
- Design improvements
- Added confirmation dialog when removing multiple songs at once
- Added option to sort songs via album name instead of song's matched album id (turn on if you experience problems with sort order)
- Fixed rare crash or song halt related to seeking
- Fixed problem causing not to be able to downrate songs in ‘Unrated’ auto playlist
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.05 (Jan 29, 2014)
- Changed default shortcuts
- Fixed rare bug causing playback to stop
- Fixed rare CPU hog
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.01 (Jan 8, 2014)
- Fixed problems after one day of constant usage.
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.6.0 (Jan 7, 2014)
- User interface overhaul
- “I’m Feeling Lucky” radio now available
- Albums from the same artist are now sorted by year
- Album art displayed in Notification Center (Mavericks only)
- Fixed skipping when seeking songs
- Fixed missing ‘Add to Library’ in context menu in playlists
- Lots of minor fixes, improvements
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.5.15 (Dec 28, 2013)
- Added 'Album Artist' view
- Fixed issue with sort order
- Fixed issue with album art display in Artist view
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.5.13 (Sep 7, 2013)
- Relevance based default ordering when searching All Access
- Fixed a crash when clicking below the song lost under certain circumstances
- If encountered a song which is not playable (deleted on Google's side), skips playing instead of waiting indefinitely
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.5.12 (Aug 28, 2013)
- List all related songs by clicking on artist or album of song (on All Access if possible, or in Library if not)
- All Access part of thumbs up playlist is now more regularly refetched
- Enter plays selected song
- Corrected behaviour when pressing play button when nothing is selected
- Fixed memory leak
- Minor bugfixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.5.10 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Flagging songs as thumbs up/down is now possible for all access songs
- Thumbs up auto playlist now shows All Access songs not in the library
- Album art storage is now limited, and the last viewed ones are regularly deleted to save disk space
- Fixed compatibility problem related to sound volume setting and certain sound output devices, including Soundflower and Airfoil
- Fixed fetching album art, especially large resolution ones
- Various Artist albums are now shown correctly
- Fixed behaviour when logging out and in again
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.5 (Aug 3, 2013)
- Totally new icon
- The ability to choose between Airplay device when there are more than 1 available
- Change volume with scroll gesture / mouse wheel when mouse pointer is above the volume bar
- Selection by typing made easier
- Artists beginning with 'The' now have their rightful place in album/artist views
- Fixed sorting by play count, year, or added on / last played dates
- Fixed rare crash on launch
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.36 (Jul 25, 2013)
- Can listen to a shared playlist
- Added a 'Default' sound output that follows settings change in System Preferences
- App can sit in status bar instead of Dock
- Fixed bug causing empty song list when the library itself is empty (thus making All Access unreachable)
- Fixed bug causing deleted items to show up in album view
- Minor font changes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.35 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Ability to create Radio / Instant Mix based on an Artist or Album
- Select Audio Output device (including Airport if Mountain Lion or better)
- Ability to show and edit disc numbers
- Removed unnecessary refetching library when add song to library from All Access
- Fixed rare immature song ends with All Access
- Fixed selection album/artist
- Fixed compatibility issue causing 'All Access' to show up when it's unavailable
- Fixed bug causing radio to still be shown on the sidebar after deletion
- Fixed bug sometimes causing radio list to be empty after startup
- Fixed fetching low quality album art sometimes
- Fixed All Access search not finding certain albums
- Fixed visual glitch with Modern Dark buttons
- Fixed rare crashes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.32 (Jun 28, 2013)
- Graphic Equalizer
- Can add songs to playlists (or create new one) directly from All Access
- Can edit song metadata in the main window
- Fixed Unicode sorting issues
- Fixed bug preventing playlists to contain the same song more than once
- Fixed rare crash on reordering songs
- Fixed rare premature song ends
- Fixed rare stops on song end when playing back Radio
- Fixed play count not appearing
- Fixed bug causing next song not be played from radio right after Start Radio (the same with Create Instant Mix)
- Fixed rating not updating visually when changed
- Fixed not finding songs is some cases with All Access
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.30 (Jun 14, 2013)
- Full All Access search capability
- Create, play, and delete radios
- Smoother handling of Instant Mixes
- All Access songs do appear in playlists
- Can add songs from All Access to Library (right click or drag&drop)
- Ability to delete songs from Library
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.29 (May 30, 2013)
- Plays songs added to library from All Access (Search in All Access coming soon)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.21 (May 16, 2013)
- Fixed problem causing new users not to be able to login
- Fixed problem playing songs in Lion
- Fixed visual glitches in full screen mode
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.20 (May 13, 2013)
- Added "Modern Dark" theme (designed by Aaron Glass)
- Updated classic "Cocoa" theme
- Option to show song info in OS X status bar
- Option to hide Share button
- Keyboard shortcut added for Shuffle
- Album Artist column added to song list
- Don't display artists in Artists view when only 1 song is present (handy when having compilations)
- Removed meaningless items from Edit menu
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.17 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Works with current public version of Nicecast (Nicecast can grab song info)
- Fixed problem causing unnecessary parallel download of music data, and ultimately gaps in songs under certain circumstances
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.16 (Mar 15, 2013)
- Fixed rare crash on startup
- Fixed responsiveness problem when clicking on playlist (editing started when it should not)
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.15 (Mar 6, 2013)
- You can now select multiple songs with cmd or shift
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4.1 (Feb 27, 2013)
- Fixed bug causing music not to advance to next track on certain configurations
- Fixed not being able to create new playlist when there is none already
- Fixed rare quirks on song endings
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.4 (Feb 18, 2013)
- Add songs to playlist (via context menu), remove songs from playlist
- Add a a song to a newly created playlist, rename playlist, delete playlist (by backspace)
- Double click playlist or album starts playback
- Volume slider is not available by default (can be enabled in settings)
- Configurable shortcuts available from background (currently thumbs up/down, and playback controls)
- Pressing play when nothing is selected starts first track, or random trackif in shuffle mode
- Little speaker icon shows currently playing track
- Cosmetic improvements
- Updated application icon
- Fixed bug causing albums with 1 song not repeating correctly
- Fixed Snow Leopard behaviour
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.95 (Feb 6, 2013)
- Double click on playlist, album, artist or genre starts playing
- Start playing is possible when nothing selected (e.g. at app start), starts random song if shuffle is on
- Album art loads faster initially
- Playback starts more smoothly on a slow network connection
- Integration with the next Nicecast release
- Fixed a bug that caused play counter seemingly increase unnecessarily when clicking too fast on thumbs up/down
- Fixed a bug sometimes causing the remaining time of the previous song to appear
- Fixed a bug that led to a missing second in the remaining time display
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.91 (Dec 19, 2012)
- fixed instant mixes (api has suddenly changed)
- fixed rare bug causing playlist with songs containing eastern characters in their names to halt
- 'a' and 'an' prefixes in artist names do not count in sorting
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.9 (Dec 8, 2012)
- Artist and Genre views
- Cell size in Artist/Album/Genre view is now resizable
- Improved and more secure login (password is not stored anymore in keychain, just tokens. Furthermore, password is not entered directly into the application, but in a browser window instead)
- Gapless playback
- You can now toggle table columns (right click on header)
- 'Unrated' auto playlist
- When in Artist/Album/Genre view, and you start searching, the search does not filter the contents of the album/artist/genre
- Cmd+C copies currently description of selected song
- Cmd+F makes gives focus to search field
- 'Recently Added' auto playlist is now configurable (last n items, or added last n days)
- Fixed UI bug with rating cells
- Fixed bug prohibiting jump to playing song
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.8 (Nov 16, 2012)
- Added album view
- Album art is downloaded from Last.fm if no album art is available from google, or it is too small (Last.fm is not mandatory for this)
- VPN Mode selectable in settings if one has problems playing songs
- Fixed rare bug with login
- Fixed rare bug with playback under Snow Leopard
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.7 (Oct 24, 2012)
- Drastically reduced memory and CPU footprint
- Instant Mix flow redesigned
- Auto playlists (Thumbs up, Thumbs down, Recently added)
- Improved icons for Thumbs up and thumbs down
- Animated appear/disappear of playlists (Lion and up)
- Filters are now assigned to specific playlists, instead of being global
- When sorting by albums there is no further sorting by title, instead by disc/track number (useful for compilation albums)
- Improved compatibility with Snow Leopard
- Fixed rare problems when logging in
- Fixed bug causing thumbs up/thumbs down icons sometimes not refreshing immediately
- Minor fixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3.5 (Sep 27, 2012)
- Last.fm scrobbling
- fully Retina compatible
- song metadata is kept on disk for faster login times
- added ability to create Instant Mixes (see bottom of playlist pane on the left)
- buffering is improved so that song playback now starts faster
- pressing back in shuffle mode plays goes back to the previously playing song (while the order is still random)
- songs appear in the right order by default in playlists
- holding forward or back button continusly seeks in song instead of skipping
- Apple Remote support (requires external preference pane)
- clicking on album art now jumps to playing song (like click on song title on top bar)
- jumping to current song now also jumps to correct playlist
- song is kept visible if user did not explicitly navigate away
- 'the Cure' is the same as 'Cure' when sorting
- song without disc number is sorted like the first disc (useful if you have an album from multiple sources)
- natural sorting ('song10' is after 'song2')
- you can scroll to song by typing
- added option to be able to pause when screen is locked
- added option for single-song looping
- added rating column so you can rate your songs
- added year, last played, play count, aded on columns
- added album art display to Twitter share sheet
- column arrangement is persisted between sessions
- fixed crash on Snow Leopard
- fixed rare bug with login
- minor improvements, bugfixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.3 (Aug 7, 2012)
- added playlist support (note: playlist modification will come in v1.4)
- added Apple keyboard media keys support (may require external preference pane)
- compatible with Snow Leopard
- support for Notification Center (Mountain Lion only)
- support for Share Sheets (e.g. post currently audible song via Twitter, Mountain Lion only)
- display album art for currently played song
- fixed a bug causing some users not to be able list songs on certain occasions
- fixed a bug regarding 2-factor authentication
- cosmetic enhancements
- can change sort order to descending
- minor bugfixes, improvements
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.2 (Jun 22, 2012)
- allow users with 2-factor Google authentication enabled log in
- fixed a bug disallowing certain users to connect
- Previous, Play, and Next buttons in OS X status bar (can be turned off in settings if not desired)
- when your Mac goes to sleep, it pauses playback (to avoid awkward situations)
- you can now narrow your search, e.g. search by artist name
- space key now pauses/resumes playback
- song ordering enhanced
- cosmetic changes
- minor bugfixes
New in Gear for Google Play and YouTube 1.1 (May 19, 2012)
- Fixed crash on some configurations
- Fixed bug making hard to scroll
- Added support for Sudden Termination (i.e. allowing the system to kill us right away on logout)