G-Ear Music Player versions

G-Ear lets you connect to your existing Google Play (also known as Google Music) account and listen to your favorite music without confining yourself.
1.6
Jun 3, 2014
1.3
Aug 12, 2012
Review

What's new

v1.4 [Feb 22, 2013]
- Ability to create Radio / Instant Mix based on an Artist or Album
- Select Audio Output device (including Airport if Mountain Lion or better)
- Ability to show and edit disc numbers
- Removed unnecessary refetching library when add song to library from All Access
- Fixed rare immature song ends with All Access
- Fixed selection album/artist
- Fixed compatibility issue causing 'All Access' to show up when it's unavailable
- Fixed bug causing radio to still be shown on the sidebar after deletion
- Fixed bug sometimes causing radio list to be empty after startup
- Fixed fetching low quality album art sometimes
- Fixed All Access search not finding certain albums
- Fixed visual glitch with Modern Dark buttons
- Fixed rare crashes

v1.3 [Aug 12, 2012]
- Last.fm scrobbling
- Fully Retina compatible
- Song metadata is kept on disk for faster login times
- Added ability to create Instant Mixes (see bottom of playlist pane on the left)
- Buffering is improved so that song playback now starts faster
- Pressing back in shuffle mode plays goes back to the previously playing song (while the order is still random)
- Songs appear in the right order by default in playlists
- Holding forward or back button continusly seeks in song instead of skipping
- Apple Remote support (requires external preference pane, and please note that Apple Remote is a physical remote, not to be confused with the iOS app called 'Remote')
- Clicking on album art now jumps to playing song (like click on song title on top bar)
- Jumping to current song now also jumps to correct playlist
- Song is kept visible if user did not explicitly navigate away
- 'The Cure' is the same as 'Cure' when sorting
- Song without disc number is sorted like the first disc (useful if you have an album from multiple sources)
- Natural sorting ('song10' is after 'song2')
- You can scroll to song by typing
- Added option to be able to pause when screen is locked
- Added option for single-song looping
- Added rating column so you can rate your songs
- Added year, last played, play count, aded on columns
- Added album art display to Twitter share sheet
- Column arrangement is persisted between sessions
- Fixed crash on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Fixed rare bug with login
- Minor improvements, bugfixes

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