Best Music Players on Windows 8: gMusicW

Thanks to the extensive catalog of applications for playing music that are appearing in the store of Windows 8, the new Microsoft operating system makes it really easy for us to listen to our favorite songs either locally or by synchronizing the content between different platforms.

We also show you gMusicW in depth, an alternative for Google Play Music users This application, the work of the developer OutcoldSolutions, gives us It allows us to access all the content of our Google Play Music account, taking advantage of the practical Modern UI interface.

Listen to your favorite music locally or via streaming

The biggest advantage when using streaming music players, such as Deezer or Spotify, is being able to synchronize both our music and playlists reproduction between different platforms From the application store for Windows 8 we can download a version of Deezer, which integrates perfectly with the new Modern UI interface, which makes it very comfortable to use in touch screen devices. Let's see if Spotify finally decides and ends up following his example.

Xbox Music, in addition to playing tracks via streaming, allows us to easily manage and play all the music stored on our computer, including songs purchased from other services or discs digitized from a CD. As if that were not enough, we can buy individual songs or complete albums from the application itself.If we also purchase Xbox Music Pass we can synchronize our collection between our tablet, PC, phone, Xbox 360 or the Internet.

gMusicW, an alternative to play Google Play Music in Windows 8

The strong point of Google Play Music is that in addition to being a store where you can buy all kinds of music, it allows us to store 20,000 songs in the cloud that we can listen and sync for free between all our devices. Therefore, in the absence of an official application by Google for Modern UI, gMusicW fulfills its mission perfectly.

The interface is quite simple and although it lacks a visual aspect as attractive as that of Xbox Music, it has all the necessary management options : search function, playlist editing, random or continuous order selection, etc.We can also select which songs we want to keep as local content to be able to listen to them without an Internet connection.

A very interesting feature that gMusicW has is the radio mode Every time we use it it will generate a playlist that will be saved for future uses, made from 25 themes chosen randomly from all the ones we have in our library. If we wish, we can give our opinion on each topic through a 5-star voting system

Although we can listen to the music in the background, we appreciate the compatibility with the Snap View mode of Windows 8 In this way we can see the player on one side of the screen to be able to access it if necessary while we carry out another task on the rest of the screen. gMusicW constantly displays an advertising banner that doesn't bother too much, but if we want to purchase the version of the application without it, we will have to pay $1.99.

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