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Great post. I may check this out, although I usually need more flexibility than just playing radio. It is pretty sad to me that in 2014, my Sandy Bridge Core

Great post. I may check this out, although I usually need more flexibility than just playing radio. It is pretty sad to me that in 2014, my Sandy Bridge Core i7 machine with 16GB RAM occasionally stutters while playing Google Music in Chrome.

throwawayaway 12y ago
pretty sure the hardware isn't the problem then! could be your internet connection?
Tiksi 12y ago
Thanks! I'm not much of a writer but I figured someone else might be looking for this, so I might as well put it out there. And you can do more than just radio, pretty much anything you can do on the web interface, you can do with GMusicProxy, short of uploading files.
nkozyra 12y ago
That would give me pause considering I run it without issue on a much slower Mac and have in fact run it on 5-year-old PCs without that issue.
- Tiksi 12y ago
  When you're pushing triple digits of open tabs, it can definitely become an issue. Plus the web interface runs on flash and support isn't great for Linux, even chrome's Pepper version has a ton of issues. edit: Point being that playing an mp3 should never freeze any system built in this millennium, and yet it does. So this is a bit of a workaround to avoid that. Plus with this setup you can enable global media keys/hotkeys and get a lot more control over playing your music.
  - nkozyra 12y ago
    I'm certainly not saying what they have is ideal, so don't take offense on that note. I welcome a native-ish client ala Spotify since I foolishly subscribe to both. But as someone who keeps their open tabs in the double digits (although pushing it sometimes), I've not encountered much playback issue.
    - Tiksi 12y ago
      I haven't run into any issues on my i5 machine, but on a core2duo machine it was many many times a day I had to kill firefox/plugin-container just in time or I'd have to reboot.
      - nkozyra 12y ago
        To be honest I've only run it in Chrome and it's been pretty happy there on Ubuntu, Windows or OSX.
  - vkjv 12y ago
    Triple digits of tabs? You're the guy with more icons on his desktop than can fit, right?
    - Tiksi 12y ago
      Heh, I actually don't have any icons at all, I just like having everything I need out in front of me so I use awesome window manager and open a bunch of windows with tons of tabs, multitasking at its finest.
u124556 12y ago
I don't think streaming can beat having the actual files on disk (and owning them). Specially if you like listening to high quality flac instead of lossy compressed music.

throwawayaway 12y ago

pretty sure the hardware isn't the problem then! could be your internet connection?

Tiksi 12y ago

Thanks! I'm not much of a writer but I figured someone else might be looking for this, so I might as well put it out there. And you can do more than just radio, pretty much anything you can do on the web interface, you can do with GMusicProxy, short of uploading files.

nkozyra 12y ago

That would give me pause considering I run it without issue on a much slower Mac and have in fact run it on 5-year-old PCs without that issue.

Tiksi 12y ago
When you're pushing triple digits of open tabs, it can definitely become an issue. Plus the web interface runs on flash and support isn't great for Linux, even chrome's Pepper version has a ton of issues. edit: Point being that playing an mp3 should never freeze any system built in this millennium, and yet it does. So this is a bit of a workaround to avoid that. Plus with this setup you can enable global media keys/hotkeys and get a lot more control over playing your music.
- nkozyra 12y ago
  I'm certainly not saying what they have is ideal, so don't take offense on that note. I welcome a native-ish client ala Spotify since I foolishly subscribe to both. But as someone who keeps their open tabs in the double digits (although pushing it sometimes), I've not encountered much playback issue.
  - Tiksi 12y ago
    I haven't run into any issues on my i5 machine, but on a core2duo machine it was many many times a day I had to kill firefox/plugin-container just in time or I'd have to reboot.
    - nkozyra 12y ago
      To be honest I've only run it in Chrome and it's been pretty happy there on Ubuntu, Windows or OSX.
- vkjv 12y ago
  Triple digits of tabs? You're the guy with more icons on his desktop than can fit, right?
  - Tiksi 12y ago
    Heh, I actually don't have any icons at all, I just like having everything I need out in front of me so I use awesome window manager and open a bunch of windows with tons of tabs, multitasking at its finest.

u124556 12y ago

I don't think streaming can beat having the actual files on disk (and owning them). Specially if you like listening to high quality flac instead of lossy compressed music.