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foobar with google play music?

Been trying for a while to figure this out, I know foobar can play from a stream. I love google play music, the selection is amazing. The only thing I don't like is that it has to be played through browser and well being in love with foobar for probably at least 15 years any media player that isn't foobar is inferior in my opinion. I've downloaded and installed the upnp plugin, can't figure out for the life of me though where to go from here. I'm sure it's posted on here somewhere and I searched. Searched these forums and scoured google and found information but i just can't make sense of any of it :( Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: foobar with google play music?

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Google Play Music works in a funny way. It used to progressive stream MP3s via single-time-access URLs from their servers, in regular-sized chunks. With a tool like ChromeCacheView you could copy these to a location and concatenate them to produce listenable files.

Nowadays GPM serves AAC audio in .m4a files, served in DASH chunks. The first chunk is tiny (32 KB), the next is 64 KB, the next is 128, then 256, 512, up to 1 MB before the last segment or two which is however much remains in the file's original size.

If you're quick you can still grab them from your browser cache and stitch them, though there's some other things happening in the file headers which may cause problems seeking in some players. YMMV.

If an app like youtube-dl could implement support, you'd be able to download the files and play them after it had remuxed them to AAC in M4A. As it is, I expect it's not a simple job to write either core functionality or a plugin to make this possible, you'd probably need to utilise ffmpeg at the least.
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Reply #3 –
I was using that for a while and it eventually just stopped working properly. I'll give it a fresh install and see if that helps anything

EDIT: Fresh install and it's doing the same thing... Click sign in button, input password, and it goes back to the original sign in screen but the buttons don't work after that.

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Quote from: Mr_Nye on
I was using that for a while and it eventually just stopped working properly. I'll give it a fresh install and see if that helps anything

EDIT: Fresh install and it's doing the same thing... Click sign in button, input password, and it goes back to the original sign in screen but the buttons don't work after that.

What OS? What antivirus if any? I just did a fresh install on my new work laptop, it's working fine after sign-in. Almost sounds like it's having trouble authenticating if you're getting bounced back to the sign-in page. Either that or the Chromium browser it uses is faulting (checked the log in its appdata folder?) or the Electron wrapper is throwing a JS error but not showing an error message.
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Reply #5 –
windows 10, no antivirus running. It's weird it logs in long enough to see the playlists then boots back to sign in