gmusicapi

I like Google Play Music, a lot, but: - Google. Privacy. - trying to shove the Android/Material UI on iOS, such an impedance mismatch... I *hate* that. - no dedicated client on desktop (so, no offline mode) - the UI in the browser sucks (again, alien, and basically *negative* information density if it could be so) - uploading/downloading is a crapshoot[0] with official tools, and the API is unofficial so hacks[1] may be short-lived. So, again, I like GPM (and GPMAA) a lot, but only on Android. The only thing I miss in Spotify from GPMAA/Apple Music+iTunes Match is the digital locker for seamless syncing of music I own. FTR, despite having a native UI and digital locker, I moved from Apple Music to Spotify because discovery and reliability were terrible. [0]: official tools behave similarly to this: h

Absolutely wish this existed, I've contemplated hacking something together for use in my lemonbar configs but haven't started anything yet. As far as I know nothing like this exists aside from https://github.com/simon-weber/gmusicapi

I wonder what this means for the folks using unofficial clients? I know there are clients for Mopidy and Squeezebox built with https://github.com/simon-weber/gmusicapi.

First, bullshit. Here's one on the front page right now: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API Do you think this is a licensed API? Your "nobody will sue tiny projects" thought is contravened by history. Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer We'll strongly disagree as to where this decision will lead. Thankfully, I know i'm not the only one worried. Also, fosspatents is not a legal decision, nor did you actually cite anything that backs up your claim: Your claim was the decision says the language was not copyrightable. It says no such thing. What it says is "It is undisputed that the Java programming language is open and free for anyone to use." This is because it was licensed, not because it is uncopyrightable.

I'm the author of the unofficial client library OP referenced. It's great to see folks building such awesome things on it =) Shameless plug: gmusicapi has plenty of contributor-friendly work for all skill levels. If you're interested, shoot me an email or feel free to dive right into some issues. https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API

Talk about bad journalism. That is not true. Google's All Access music streaming has _never_ been blocked by flash DRM restrictions. The raw MP3 streams have been available ever since its inception, as it has been included in Simon Weber's python google music API implementation [1] for about 5 months (which is a few weeks after All Access was announced). From that API it has been implemented in those 3rd-party apps like GMusic and Cloud Play. So, the only "bad guy" here is Google for not making an iOS app sooner. [1] https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API

I see non-sanctioned access like this as a huge boon to both the service and its users: it enables easy marketing, community-supported apps, easy research on what features users want, etc. I also think the fear of abuse is mostly unwarranted. If somebody wanted to steal your content or abuse your platform, they'd figure out a way to do so -- with or without an unofficial api (especially if all that's needed is http scraping). (disclaimer: I maintain https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API)

Google's authentication schemes can be incredibly confusing, and they're something I've had to deal with while building an unofficial client to Google Music [0]. Here are two things worth knowing (that are somewhat covered by the article): * aside from OAuth, any method of client auth is basically equivalent to SSO (ie, your entire Google account). As noted in the article, this includes app-specific passwords * SSO is not meant for programmatic access. If you want code to have access to SSO credentials, it's easiest to use some other auth service, and then "upgrade" to SSO (the linked blog post describes one way of doing this) [1] [0] https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API [1] http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/11/sso-using-account-manag...

I built an api for Google Music: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API.