If you have significant music collection of your favorite
tracks and you prefer having access to them whenever you want and wherever you
go, free service from Google might be a good choice to use. Starting from 2011,
Google offers you to upload for free up to 20,000 songs and access them from
any device equipped with appropriate application or through the Web browser,
given you have stable internet access. You may add your collection from iTunes,
Windows Media Player, or any folders on your dedicated hard drive. Then, you
may listen on the web or your mobile devices without the hassle of wires or
syncing.
While there is no need for the special application to use
the service, there is always easy to have special applications for such access.
The web interface can be reached: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/now
In this post, we will present several desktop
applications for Windows to improve your listening experience.
1. Music Manager
Music manager is an official Google application, allowing
uploading music from your computer to Google Play and listening to the music
you love anywhere you have Internet access.
Main features:
* Upload up to 20,000 songs from your iTunes library,
Windows Media Player library, My Music folder, or folders of your choice to
Google Play.
* Selective upload is available. You may upload only the
tracks you want - choose individual songs or upload songs automatically.
* Adjust the bandwidth available for uploading songs.
* View your upload progress.
* Download any songs that you previously uploaded to your
music library, as well as songs you purchased from Google Play.
2. Google Music
Desktop Player by Victor Gill
This is a desktop application for Google Music online
music service allowing you to use this service as a desktop application mainly
for accessing/controlling it with multimedia keyboard, taskbar buttons and as a
widget.
Main features:
* A notification splashform.
* LastFM Scrobbling
* Free RAM after song end
* Uses Webkit Engine
* Supports Multimedia Keys [PlayPause, Stop, Previous and
Next]
* Windows 7 Taskbar support [Buttons for: Play/Pause
Previous and Next]
* MiniPlayer
* Metro UI Like with Aero Snap support
*Multi-monitor support
*Windows 7 and 8 compatible
3. GMusic
GMusic is a desktop client for Google Music that supports
minimize to tray with a draggable playback control bar and support for
multimedia keys.
Main Features:
* Miniplayer - to enable, right click the system tray icon,
choose "Settings -> Show Miniplayer When Hidden." When the player
is minimized, this will show the always-on-top semi-transparent control bar
pictured below. You can move the bar by dragging the right hand side. We will
add a visual cure to make this more obvious in the near future.
* Multimedia Keys -
Play/Pause, Next Track and Previous Track keyboard keys can be used to control
playback. If you have troubles be sure there are no other media players running
and check to ensure your keyboard drivers are properly installed and
configured. You can find more information on configuration from your keyboard manufacturers’
website.
* Optional Browser Key Control - If your keyboard has
browser navigation keys (like Forward, Back, Home, etc.) but does not have
media control keys you can enable this option by right clicking on the system
tray icon and choosing "Settings -> Capture Browser Keys." Doing
so will cause the browser keys to control playback in lieu of multimedia keys.
One drawback is that some browsers will aggressively intercept these keys when
they have focus so you may not be able to control playback while actively
browsing the web, but it should work fine while you are using other
applications.
* Command Line Support
Website: http://gmusic.codeplex.com/
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