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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v1.4 [Feb 22, 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
