How To Install Google Play Music Desktop Player on Ubuntu 16.04

Google Play Music Desktop Player aka GPMDP, is an open source, unofficial Google play music app for Linux desktop released under MIT license, also available for Mac OS X and Windows. It’s made by a university student in Melbourne, Australia.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Google Play Music Desktop Player on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
Features in Google Play Music Desktop Player

Customizable built-in equalizer for audio
Audio output device options
Simple and nicely-designed mini player
Native desktop notifications
Last.fm support with now playing and scrobbling features
HTML5-based. No need for Adobe Flash Player
Customizable media key support. Use media keys or create custom shortcuts if you don’t have any
UI customization: Set the dark theme to your taste
Customize almost everything
Interface with external apps like Rainmeter

Install Google Play Music Desktop Player on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing Google Play Music Desktop Player.

First, Download the deb package from Github project page and run the following commands to install Google Play Music Desktop Player on Ubuntu systems:

sudo apt install gdebi
sudo gdebi google-play-music-desktop-player*.deb

Once installed, Google Play Music Desktop can be started from Unity Dash or your preferred app launcher.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Google Play Music. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Google Play Music Desktop Player on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Google Play Music Desktop Player web site.

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