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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
  • 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 14, 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 4.5.0 (Jan 30, 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 28, 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 (Apr 25, 2017)

  • Here is a quick run down of all things that have changed.
  • 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
  • Thanks to all the people who have helped with these features and fixes.

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

  • 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 26, 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 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • FIX: Mini player controls are visible again

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 4.0.4 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • 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 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • 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)

  • 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 (Nov 4, 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 4.0.0 (Nov 4, 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 22, 2016)

  • Here is a quick run down of all things that have changed.
  • 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 3.4.1 (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)

  • CHANGES:
  • 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 5, 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 3.2.4 (May 20, 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 (May 20, 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 3.2.0 (Apr 18, 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 (Apr 4, 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)

  • This is a bugfix release of Google Play Music Desktop Player
  • Here is a quick run down of all things that have changed:
  • 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!

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 3.0.0 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • This is a major upgrade and you'll notice a few key things have changed. First of all we have moved from C# native windows apps to a cross platform framework called Electron. This brings with it some performance boosts and the brand new Mac OSX version of this application.
  • It also has some cool new features like hands free Voice Controls and removing flash (it is entirely HTML5) while keeping the features you know and love from this app.

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 2.1.1 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • New updater, the app will now handle everything from checking to install. You'll get a popup when the update is ready for you
  • Windows 7 no longer has that stupid UI glitch (hooray)
  • There is now a splash screen, so you don't have to watch the app initialize
  • FIXES:
  • Updated the theming library, so a whole bunch of fixes there
  • Windows 7 Resizing issues when in mini player mode

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 2.1.0 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • New updater, the app will now handle everything from checking to install. You'll get a popup when the update is ready for you
  • Windows 7 no longer has that stupid UI glitch (hooray)
  • There is now a splash screen, so you don't have to watch the app initialize
  • FIXES:
  • Updated the theming library, so a whole bunch of fixes there
  • Windows 7 Resizing issues when in mini player mode

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 2.0.2 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Brand new installer, this installer fixes a few problems people were having with dependencies. It is also now signed with a Microsoft Certificate for added security.
  • Upgraded to the CEF45, this brings more stability and some bug-fixes for things like the scroll bars
  • Major overhaul of the internal code, lots of performance tweaks and such
  • FIXES:
  • DPI issues on High Res displays are fixed in this release
  • Fixed some small theming issues
  • Fixed some crashes due to bad album art urls
  • Removed the "Reset and Close" button because it was useful and broke things..

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 2.0.1 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Brand new installer, this installer fixes a few problems people were having with dependencies. It is also now signed with a Microsoft Certificate for added security.
  • Upgraded to the CEF45, this brings more stability and some bug-fixes for things like the scroll bars
  • Major overhaul of the internal code, lots of performance tweaks and such
  • FIXES:
  • DPI issues on High Res displays are fixed in this release
  • Fixed some small theming issues
  • Fixed some crashes due to bad album art urls
  • Removed the "Reset and Close" button because it was useful and broke things...

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 2.0.0 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Brand new installer, this installer fixes a few problems people were having with dependencies. It is also now signed with a Microsoft Certificate for added security.
  • Upgraded to the CEF45, this brings more stability and some bug-fixes for things like the scroll bars
  • Major overhaul of the internal code, lots of performance tweaks and such
  • FIXES:
  • Fixed some small theming issues
  • Fixed some crashes due to bad album art urls
  • Removed the "Reset and Close" button because it was useful and broke things...

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 1.9.2 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Dark theme highlight color now themes the logo in the slide out menu
  • There is now an option to make the mini player always on top
  • There is now a gitter chat channel, check out the GitHub repository for the link. Use it to ask for help or chat with other GPM users
  • FIXES:
  • Fixed all the bugs introduced by Google's GPM update on 11/12/2015
  • Google Apps for Work accounts can now use Desktop Settings
  • Mini Player hover bugs are gone
  • Title of the player is now always the song name, regardless of your desktop notifications setting

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 1.9.0 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • The big one - last.fm integration is here!!!! Navigate to the "Desktop Settings" option to log in and start scrobbling
  • There is now a 64bit stream available to download, head to the GitHub release section to grab it
  • First run users will have theming and other cool things straight away, not after restart
  • You can now zoom in and out to see your music how you want to with the shortcuts (Ctrl + and Ctrl -) (Ctrl 0 resets the zoom)
  • FIXES:
  • Dark theme fixes (Thanks @dst33nburgh)
  • Customization and theming now works for people in languages that aren't English (Sorry folks)
  • Mouse forward and back buttons work as navigation inside the player now

New in Google Play Music Desktop Player 1.8.0 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Made a new dedicated settings window for desktop player specific settings
  • You can now customize the highlight color of the dark theme
  • There is an option to enable / disable song change notifications
  • FIXES:
  • General code cleanup and optimizations
  • Closing and reopening no longer messes up the size
  • Themed some missing elements