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I installed Google Music to my MacBook Pro a few months ago. It kept prompting me with the install screen, long after I'd dragged it into my apps folder.

I didn't use it and uninstalled it by dragging the app icon into the trash. Didn't work.

I tried the AppDelete path. No go.

I googled around and found I was not the only one. Uninstall is broken and you are basically stuck with a prompt twice a day to install the Google Music app until you reinstall your OS or go slogging through the guts of your box, throwing switches you don't understand by mixing internal uninstall tutorials (ok, to be fair, this is how you do just about everything...).

In conclusion, that app is a daily annoyance and I'd caution people against installing it.

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Slightly related note:

This seems to be a trend lately in Google's desktop software that I'm not comfortable with. On both my Linux and Mac machines 'ps aux | grep -i chrome' shows background processes running long after I've quit Chrome.

I don't see any GUI options to turn these off (there used to be an option in 'about: flags' that I think was related), and I have to end up killing them from the command line.

Not cool, Google.

Well, there is a GUI option for that: http://i.imgur.com/ENMmC.png

I have the same problems, and have considered dumping my OS (Windows) and re-installing it from scratch just to get rid of the two errors I get constantly.

All it does is serve as a reminder not to use or install any other Google app.

You should try http://www.audiogalaxy.com. I think you'll like it. Don't take my word for it though - I've built it. Look up user reviews on iTunes/Android.

Your stat counter is almost identical to that on the front page of Apple.com..

Heh, theirs has a bigger number and flips much faster. This style of counter is pretty common, afaik.

Yeah, it was popularized by physical tally counters [1], long before it made it into software UI.

They are still used sometimes at concerts or carnivals to tally up people entering a location for records keeping, and to make sure that you're under fire code.

I have one of these counters too, but I only use it on the range to keep track of how many targets I've hit by sheer chance. ;)

[1] http://9cloud.us/c/general/pictures/album/36357/id/1239690/

Do you use html5 for playing the music, or do you need flash? That's kind of my only big negative for google music, apart from the upload instead of indexing, it relies on flash for playing the music even though it is a html5-site.

HTML5 when available, Flash otherwise. It depends on the source audio format, and the browser you're using. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/ drives our playback on the website for most cases.

Oh man, the OS X integration utility is remarkably obnoxious. I wasn't pleased that it was getting a bit more into the guts of my system than expected without letting me know (although the system authentication request at the beginning was clearly a tip off, assuming I'm remembering correctly). After completing the install I suddenly had a Google Music menu icon and the app was accessible only through my system prefs pane. I much prefer Amazon's approach with their standalone application.

I've also had issues where the app wanted to completely reupload my entire library. No thanks---I now just keep it set to monitor an empty directory.

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