gMusic - Bing 2024

gMusic is a Windows 8 client for Google Play Music Through the application we can listen to individual songs or complete albums that we have uploaded to the Google servers or that we have acquired through the service. With gMusic you can manage playlists that you can create, edit and modify as you please.

gMusic allows us to express our preferences for songs with the 5-star voting system, play music in the background, search for songs with the Windows 8 search system (Search Charm), and supports multimedia keyboards.The application updates the hearing statistics on the servers.

gMusic is offered as a free application with , which can be removed through two subscription modalities: $1.99 AdFree (completely removes la) and Ultimate for $4.99. As of this writing, the Ultimate package does not offer any extras over AdFree at the moment, and extra features are on the way. Both modalities are currently on sale, so it is conceivable that they will be more expensive in the future.

How gMusic works

To be able to use gMusic it is necessary to have a Google Play Music account (the same one we have for any Google service), and the program will ask us for these credentials when it starts for the first time.Once the username and password have been entered, we can enjoy the application and the music service.

In the first boot we will find ourselves before a dark graphite screen with white letters, Home. Here we will see three main elements on the left: all the songs and the most voted in the first column (with their number and time required for their reproduction) and the playlists that we have created."

To the right of these elements and dominating the rest of the screen, we will have three music classifications: artists, albums and genres. It occupies a space on the right side of the screen permanently (at the moment it is not very aggressive) and is not affected by the horizontal scroll of the screen.

Each group is arranged in a matrix of 3x3 rectangular elements, where we will have a visual representation of the album, artist name and duration of the content, as well as a control to trigger its playback.

On any screen that has a list, after selecting one of its songs we can start playing it or add it to any of the lists that we have created. The song player and its controls are completely intuitive.

By pressing the “more” option we access some additional features, such as random playback (Shuffle), and continuous playback, among others. It also has the appropriate progress bar, accompanied by information about the topic being played.

The right mouse button, pressed on a clean area of the screen, shoots an upper and a lower band. In the first we will have access to the five sections of the program (queues, lists, artists, albums and genres), as well as the “Home” control to return to the screen major.gMusic complies with the minimalist and intuitive philosophy of Modern UI applications, 5 minutes are enough to master its use.

In the upper right area of the screen there are two more controls, one to access the gMusic Twitter account (@gMusicW), and another to gather feedback from users: uservoice, which connects, after launching the default browser, with a web page of the company responsible for the product, where you can vote for songs and make suggestions.

gMusic, conclusions

In general the application is fine, and it fulfills its mission flawlessly Of course, it is a limited client, since it does not allow upload music to our Google Play Music account, or buy songs. Perhaps these features will be included in the Ultimate package. The latter is an assumption, because nothing is said about it on the Windows Store page.