G-Ear lets you connect to your existing Google Play (also known as Google Music) account and listen to your favorite music without confining yourself to a web browser. The app's interface aims to be simple and intuitive, just does what it has to. So don't hesitate, go on and try!
Google Music is a free service that lets you put your collection into the cloud and listen to your songs anytime, anywhere, without having to carry them on your device.
We appreciate every feature request, so feel free to write your opinion to us. Please drop an email if you encounter any bugs, we are eager to give you perfect experience.
Features:
- full Google Music All Access* support
- create, play, and delete radios
- can add All Access songs to Library
- gapless playback
- Last.fm scrobbling
- post currently played song via Twitter or Facebook (Mountain Lion only)
- fully Retina compatible
- "Modern Dark" and "Cocoa" visual themes
- Graphic Equalizer
- playlist support (editing and manipulation)
- album-, artist- and genre views
- edit song metadata
- compatible with Nicecast
- automatic download of album art from Last.fm
- delete songs from Library
- post songs to Notification Center (Mountain Lion only)
- 'instant mixes' (accessible by clicking on brain icon in song's row)
- Previous, Play, and Next buttons in OS X status bar (can be turned off in settings if not desired)
- Apple keyboard Previous, Play and Next buttons (may require external preference pane**). G-Ear itself can also be launched if it's not running.
- Apple Remote support (requires external preference pane, and please note that Apple Remote is a physical remote, not to be confused with the iOS app called 'Remote')
- rate your songs
- auto playlists (Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Recently Added, the meaning of the latter is configurable)
- pause playback if Mac goes to sleep
- pause/play song by pressing Space
- filter your songs
- shuffle, repeat
- full screen support
- 2-factor authentication is supported
- display album art for currently played song
- very fast login times
* a subscription to Google Music All Access is required
** free Magic Keys pane can be downloaded from:
http://www.treasurebox.hu/magickeys.html
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v1.3 [Aug 12, 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, and please note that Apple Remote is a physical remote, not to be confused with the iOS app called 'Remote')
- 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 OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Fixed rare bug with login
- Minor improvements, bugfixes
