castalla wrote: > Don't use it myself. See here: > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105800-Announce-Google-Music-plugin&p=895357&viewfull=1#post895357
It is actually not a raspberry / max2play exclusive but "just" an LMS plugin, which only works on a Linux server as far as I know due to Python issues, but there are nearly no limits as it works on x86(-64) systems as well as on ARM based systems. Of course, max2play eases the installation with the integrated Plugin installer. The first post in the above linked thread contains a link to the github page of the Plugin where you can also find general installation instructions. Regarding the usability: - Basically it works great. - I don't use it all the time because my main source of music is the locally stored stuff, but when I need it, it just works. - BUT: you have to be aware that it can be tricky/limited because it is based on an unofficial API to Google Play Music. Means that if Google change their mind on something it might break immediately (which, on the other hand, is what happened to Spotify, too, as far as I can judge. Of course, Michael Herger jumped in and wrote the Spotty re-implementation). There was a serious issue some time ago that broke things but askvictor took over from the original (then inactive) plugin author and fixed it for the moment. - Regarding features: Searching and "favourites" (saved playlists and radio stations) work fine, you can also access your own uploaded music. I don't use all of GPM's features, so I am not sure what are the limitations, might be that you can't search for radio stations but can just access stuff that you have already played/used via other access methods (mobile device, GPM website, ...). But here you have to check the Thread linked above and/or the "Issues" page of the github maybe to get into more details. - I am not sure about the family account thing: we also use a family account in GPM, but for the LMS Plugin you can only input one user's account data, so I pretty sure that some of the multi-user features won't work or not as smooth as in GPM itself. Short summary: basically works fine, most but not all features are supported, can unfortunately break at any time. Cheers, Seb "The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it" (R.I.P. D.A.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108027 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
