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Comment by colindean | Hacker News Reader

This is looking good, but Radiant Player is the current king of Google Play Music on OSX.

https://radiant-player.github.io/radiant-player-mac/

    brew install Caskroom/cask/radiant-player

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The difference is that Radiant requires Flash as far as I read.

Last I checked so did the Google Play website player.

You should check again; it's tucked under the labs section but there's an HTML5 audio player available as a Flash alternative. Doesn't work in Safari though.

Ah, I was using Safari. Thanks!

Yeah just yesterday I was looking for something to play Google Music through on my new MBP, found Radiant, saw it required Flash and proceeded to move on. I'm on a 14 day trial of Gear Player, which seems nice but seems lacking for how I interact with my music.

It works well enough, has album art views, something I do want as a feature, but Radiant has a nicer overall UI (IMO), has a mini player that I can tuck away in the corner somewhere, and has the ability to add new playlists within the app. Installing flash is that much of a dealbreaker for me.

Radiant looks a little more native too

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