Google Music Manager on Linux (Wine)

Google 的貼牌冰箱(Google Refrigerator)
Google 的貼牌冰箱(Google Refrigerator) (Photo credit: Aray Chen)

UPDATE:  Google have finally provided a native Linux client, just login to http://music.google.com/ and click ‘Add Music’ to install it.

Last
week I received a Beta invite for Google Music.  I jumped straight onto
it only to meet the message “Music Manager is only available for PC and
Mac”.  Being an avid Linux user I was most displeased!  “Ok, no
problem…
” I thought and I jumped straight into a VMware’d Windows
installation – no joy, it apparently doesn’t support ‘virtual machines’
either.

I stumbled upon musicalpha a Chrome Extension that
looked quite promising albeit not quite complete (metadata not working).

Alas, I had more important things to worry about and I gave up…

Until
today, I discovered that Ubuntu users had success running the Music Manager under wine.  One helpful guy even wrapped the
binaries in a ZIP file you can grab from here
.

Screenshot-Music Manager-1.pngMusic Manager running nicely (under Wine), 4,712 tracks uploading as I type…


Comments

One response to “Google Music Manager on Linux (Wine)”

  1. Micah avatar

    I think this is among the most significant information for me. And i’m glad reading your article. But wanna remark on some general things, The website style is great, the articles is really excellent : D. Good job, cheers

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *