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Google Play Music Desktop Player Changelog

What's new in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.7.1

Jan 7, 2020
  • This is a minor release of Google Play Music Desktop Player
  • It's been a long time coming so quick shout out to everyone for struggling on and waiting for this release.
  • Here is a quick run down of all things that have changed:
  • FIX: Arguably an important part of the app, you can now sign in again!
  • FIX: That pesky segfault on linux no longer happens, should make the linux folks happier!
  • FIX: You never knew it, but discord rich precense threw a lot of errors, now it doesn't
  • FIX: MPRIS on KDE should work again
  • FIX: Reloading custom styles actually works
  • NEW: macOS Touch Bar support, there are buttons, and you can touch them, amazing!
  • NEW: There is a new Slack integration, if you want your co-workers to know you love Disney music, you can now tell them!
  • NEW: YouTube Music now shows up in the Discord Rich Precense integration
  • NEW: We now have translation support for Korean and Georgian
  • NEW: Better translations for Japanese, French, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Dutch Languages

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.6.1 (Jul 15, 2018)

  • FIX: I get it... You like back buttons... The back button issue has been fixed!!
  • FIX: The icon on windows does not look like trash any more
  • FIX: Snapcraft package has been updated
  • NEW: Better translations for Russian and Slovakian Languages

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.6.0 (Jul 15, 2018)

  • NEW: YouTube Music Support, taking bets on how long this music service will last :)
  • NEW: Snapcraft package should actually work now
  • FIX: Discord Rich Presence won't steal all your RAM now
  • FIX: The playback API works again, no more 5000 second long songs
  • NEW: Better Electron = Better Chromium = Better

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.5.0 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • NEW: Added ListenBrainz support
  • NEW: Discord Rich Presence Integration
  • NEW: Support for Google Cast Groups (finally)
  • NEW: If lyrics can't be automatically found there's now a handy button to search for them on Google
  • NEW: You can now disable disabling hardware acceleration on macOS (kinda enabling I guess)
  • NEW: For all you hungarians, we now have hungarian language support
  • NEW: Global hotkey for "I'm feeling lucky"
  • NEW: Clicking on the volume icons now updates the volume (makes sense right?)
  • FIX: JSON and Playback API time fields now don't climb to infinity and beyond
  • FIX: You can now type in an input box and pause your music at the same time, crazy stuff...
  • FIX: If you're in fullscreen mode and you quit, you won't be left staring into the void
  • FIX: If for whatever reason you have more than 12 chromecasts you can now scroll the cast device list
  • FIX: There is now an easy way to remove hotkeys

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.4.1 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • NEW: Option to start minimized
  • NEW: Add experimental support for 5.1 audio if your system supports it
  • FIX: Lyrics support should be a bit better now, one lyrics source was broken
  • FIX: PulseAudio media role is now set on linux
  • FIX: Session handling for Last.FM, loving tracks should work now
  • FIX: Some API issues with track timing not updating

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.4.0 (Jul 24, 2017)

  • NEW: You can now enable the windows 10 media service without the volume overlay thing
  • NEW: MPRIS service now listens for, and emits volume events
  • NEW: Added a keyboard shortcut for showing album art
  • FIX: Whole bunch of random "null" errors
  • FIX: Bunch of dark theme issues have been resolved
  • FIX: Last.FM scrobble logic now works better

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.3.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • NEW: TouchBar media service support for new Macbooks
  • NEW: MPRIS service now listens for the pause command
  • NEW: Added swedish language
  • FIX: All the theming things that broke, now aren't broke
  • FIX: Updated translations
  • FIX: Multi-finger back swipe gesture works again

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.2.0 (Mar 5, 2017)

  • A minor release of Google Play Music Desktop Player
  • NEW: Ability to disable the W10 Media Service Popup
  • NEW: Option to skip all downvoted songs automatically
  • NEW: Darwin option for theme mode to track system dark mode settings
  • NEW: Fullscreen state on darwin is now preserved
  • NEW: Custom keyboard shortcut to notify the current track
  • NEW: Italian, Danish and Japanese Languages
  • FIX: Linux isn't completely broken anymore
  • FIX: Darwin full screen doesn't leave a random gap anymore
  • FIX: Lyrics auto-scroll / skip detection is working again
  • FIX: A whole bunch of theming / performance tweaks

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.1.1 (Jan 15, 2017)

  • NEW: Slightly fancier settings dialog
  • NEW: Windows Media Service Integration (Lock screen music controls)
  • NEW: GoTo modal now follows redirects when verifying the URL
  • FIX: Window title is set to the current song correctly on darwin
  • FIX: Darwin title bar no longer visible in full screen
  • FIX: The update modal now waits 24 hours before showing again

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.5 (Dec 11, 2016)

  • FIX: Mini player controls are visible again

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.4 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • NEW: Reset custom CSS with the "escape" key in settings
  • NEW: Add an option to stop the display sleeping
  • FIX: White flashes on macOS have been fixed
  • FIX: Better theming with the new GPM UI
  • FIX: Update dialog now doesn't block the mini player

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.3 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Mostly the fix the new UI that Google released today
  • NEW: Added Romanian and Pirate translations
  • FIX: Stuttering UI (mouse issues) have been fixed
  • FIX: 14/11/2016 Google Play Music UI changes are now supported

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.2 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • Here is a quick run down of all things that have changed.
  • NEW: Option to invert the tray icon color on linux
  • NEW: Added Czech and French translations
  • NEW: Volume events get sent to the Playback and webSocket API
  • FIX: Chromecast track progress is now updated correctly
  • FIX: The app would hang for 2 minutes on some systems. Now it doesn't
  • FIX: Certain crashes when reloading
  • FIX: PlaybackAPI JSON file now backs off if it fails to write the file
  • FIX: Crash when generating a crash report :/
  • FIX: Go To URL now works with shared playlists
  • FIX: React performance boosts

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.1 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • NEW: The UI has been rewritten from the ground up
  • NEW: UI is more "material-like" with fancy ripples and highlights
  • NEW: Added an alarm feature to start playing your music when you want
  • NEW: Client side errors are now reported via Sentry
  • NEW: Added a Russian translation
  • FIX: Performance issues some users experienced have been fixed
  • FIX: Lyrics failed to fetch in some cases
  • FIX: Thumbs up now send "love" messages to last.fm
  • FIX: GPM buttons that would open new tabs now open in your browser
  • FIX: Some theming issues

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.6.0 (Sep 9, 2016)

  • NEW: Allow custom CSS injection. Style the app however you want
  • NEW: The window title bar is now themed on macOS
  • NEW: The new PlaybackAPI now exposes a library endpoint
  • NEW: We now have an updated authenticode certificate for code signing on windows
  • FIX: Now playing highlight color has been fixed
  • FIX: GPM no longer reloads when reconnecting to the WiFi

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.5.0 (Aug 21, 2016)

  • NEW: Companion Android Remote Control has been released in an Open Beta
  • NOTE: Your PlaybackAPI must be enabled for the remote control to work
  • NEW: Icon on linux looks a bit nicer now
  • FIX: The new playlists UI that Google released recently

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.4.3 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • As of 8/11/2016 Google released an update to Google Play Music which broke one of our modules which caused the player to reload randomly and not play songs.
  • This patch release fixes that issue and prevents a similar one from happening again. Thanks for all the reports guys that lead to a quick identification and resolution of the issue.
  • This also fixes a few small bugs from 3.4.0.

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.4.1 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • As of 8/11/2016 Google released an update to Google Play Music which broke one of our modules which caused the player to reload randomly and not play songs.
  • This patch release fixes that issue and prevents a similar one from happening again. Thanks for all the reports guys that lead to a quick identification and resolution of the issue.
  • This also fixes a few small bugs from 3.4.0

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.4.0 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • NEW: Lyrics are now visible in thin windows
  • NEW: Desktop Notifications are now native notifications on Windows 8
  • FIX: The update notification always shows the buttons now
  • FIX: I3 Window Manager now works with the Mini Player
  • FIX: Startup JavaScript errors are gone for good
  • FIX: If you have more than one Chromecast they all appear now
  • FIX: Installing on Windows no longer trips AV warnings
  • API Changes:
  • BREAKING: Under the hood we have updated to gmusic.js v6
  • BREAKING: The WebSocketAPI now refers to "songs" as "tracks"
  • NEW: The WebSocketAPI now exposes a few more methods. Check the docs

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.3.0 (Jul 4, 2016)

  • NEW: Chromecast Support!!!!!
  • NEW: The PlaybackAPI now has ZeroConf
  • NEW: Native translations for German and Polish
  • FIX: Javascript error has occured bug when starting up
  • FIX: Tray icon is now the GPM favicon
  • FIX: Ridiculous CPU usage in some circumstances
  • FIX: The lyrics screen is now a lot nicer
  • FIX: Correctly set App category on macOS
  • FIX: Command + Left/Right now navigates back and forward on macOS

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.5 (Jun 17, 2016)

  • This is a patch release of Google Play Music Desktop Player.

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.4 (May 1, 2016)

  • NEW: We have a brand new icon, this icon is based of the new Google Play Music icon
  • FIX: Added another source of lyrics and improved lyrics response time
  • FIX: OS X shortcuts now work for zooming and finding
  • FIX: The WebSocket API now sends data on initial connect as you would expect
  • FIX: The build process for arch linux now works without multiarch packages installed

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.3 (May 1, 2016)

  • NEW: We have a brand new icon, this icon is based of the new Google Play Music icon
  • FIX: Added another source of lyrics and improved lyrics response time
  • FIX: OS X shortcuts now work for zooming and finding
  • FIX: The WebSocket API now sends data on initial connect as you would expect
  • FIX: The build process for arch linux now works without multiarch packages installed

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.2 (May 1, 2016)

  • NEW: We have a brand new icon, this icon is based of the new Google Play Music icon
  • FIX: Added another source of lyrics and improved lyrics response time
  • FIX: OS X shortcuts now work for zooming and finding
  • FIX: The WebSocket API now sends data on initial connect as you would expect
  • FIX: The build process for arch linux now works without multiarch packages installed

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.1 (Apr 18, 2016)

  • Update electron packager to fix icon issues on OS X.

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.2.0 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • Implemented a lyrics overlay, this is in BETA but appears to work for most songs!
  • Fix song notifications on Ubuntu 16.04
  • You can now search with the standard shortcut (Control + F)
  • Standard browser back and forward keys (Alt + Left / Right) now work
  • Mouse buttons 4 and 5 now work on Linux
  • You can three finger swipe on OS X to navigate forward and back
  • Generic theming fixes
  • Updated to use the new orange the Google Play Music uses

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.1.0 (Mar 30, 2016)

  • Implemented a "light" theming mode. Toggle between light and dark in Settings
  • You can now navigate to GPM Url's from the app menu
  • Fixed a couple of bugs with the back button. It should now work for everyone!
  • Massive fix for media keys not working on Windows
  • Couple of fixes for media keys not working on Ubuntu
  • Added high DPI tray icons for OS X retina displays
  • You can now zoom in and out with the standard +/- shortcuts
  • Linux users can now make use of our MPRIS intergration

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.0.1 (Mar 11, 2016)

  • Fixes to do with theming and mini player due to the latest Google changes
  • Space bar now properly playPauses the music
  • The shop button now actually opens the shop!
  • Mouse buttons 4 and 5 now act correctly as browser back and browser forward
  • There is now a back button in the UI #easynavigation
  • OSX and Linux now use native window borders by default, this can be changed in settings
  • You can now add hotkeys for volume control!
  • OS X - You can now go proper full screen

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.0.0 (Mar 6, 2016)

  • First Mac OS X release