Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: Google Play to be replaced by YouTube remix?

[jacobslusser]

https://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/www.droid-life.com/2018/04/24/youtube-remix-google-play-music/_index.html

This article just came out today and implies that Google Play is going to be retired in favor of YouTube Remix - a forthcoming streaming platform.

What will become of our beloved Desktop Player? I personally don't use it for streaming/radio... I upload my own MP3 library and don't want to go full streaming...

I feel like I just got punched in the gut...

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[jostrander]

It really depends on what Google decides to do :man_shrugging:. If they keep Google Music the web interface then this project will live on. If they sunset it, we'll have to see if it's worth applying development efforts to the new player.

[MarshallOfSound]

We don't know what Google will do, neither do these people guessing what will happen when / if remix comes out. I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get that far

[nklayman]

The new YouTube music is rolling out (I have it), and I think we should re-open this issue. It would be really nice to have something like this for YouTube music.

[MarshallOfSound]

I don't have access to YouTube music yet, if someone can get me access, lend me access or whatever I can look at supporting ytm in this app (it shouldn't actually be too hard to get basic support in)

[SolarLiner]

From what I read, the transition will be gradual, but Google Play Music is indeed on its death bed.
From a Google statement about YouTube Music:

We’ve previously announced the combination of the YouTube Music and Google Play product teams — music is very important to Google so it’s critical we have one offering that meets the needs of consumers and artists. Nothing will change for users today and we’ll provide plenty of notice before any changes are made.

[MarshallOfSound]

Most things are working in the ytm branch, including a service switcher that lets you toggle between GPM and YTM.

https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/tree/ytm

Still to do:

• [ ] Port gmusic-ui.js
• [ ] Port gmusic-theme.js (not super urgent, the default is dark mode on ytm)
• [ ] As yet undiscovered bugs

[MarshallOfSound]

Can some folks experienced with the codebase check it out and let me know if it breaks / works 😄

cc @SolarLiner @jostrander

[SolarLiner]

Wait does that mean I'm supposed to be experienced with the codebase? 😅

I don't have access to YTM for now, since Europeans seem to be a second market for Google. Maybe there's something else I can do?

[MarshallOfSound]

@SolarLiner 🤔 I'm in Australia and just got it randomly today with no emails.

[SolarLiner]

Hm. You're getting me hyped there, I'll check it out tonight.

EDIT: That's what I thought. There's no YouTube Red yet in France, I didn't think they'd have launched YouTube Music yet and not the regular Red subscription.

[nklayman]

I get this error when I run npm install:
npm-error.log. If you post a prebuilt version I will happily test it out for you.

[SolarLiner]

I just got YouTube Music here and so I'm readying to test the ytm branch.

[vertiman]

Tried out your branch, will use it as a daily driver for a bit (as an aside - thanks for making this!).
Couldn't figure out how to actually change the service via the UI, but I hacked it into the .settings file to get it working.
Lots of errors on app start in the console (let me know if you want them) - but the app itself seems to work anyhow.

[MarshallOfSound]

Most of the error are expected, the ytm API hacks I did aren't complete, you can switch services from the tray menu btw

[SolarLiner]

Okay so it didn't work the first time but that's because I'm an idiot who doesn't RTFM... :man_facepalming:

After installing the system dependencies (btw, Ubuntu 18.04 can't find lib32bz2-1.0, but I could build without it, so is it really needed?), I got it to work. Surprised me to even have MPRIS working, that's very nice!

I'll report once I have spent the whole night using it, but so far so good!

[judge2020]

Might be a good idea to reserve youtubemusicdesktopplayer.com or something of the sorts.

[SolarLiner]

Well, I didn't pull an all-nighter but I did use YouTube music for a few hours, here's my observations:

• Cover art sent to MPRIS should be cropped because with Music being able to play videos, the aspect ratio isn't correct.
• Play status isn't reported to MPRIS - although signal sent by it are correctly interpreted by the player
• There's a double "mini player" button on the Google Play Music interface now

I'm really loving this! I'll be making a deb package and installing it over the 4.5.0 version.

[MarshallOfSound]

4.6.0 will have ytm support in it, should be released some time this week