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Gear Player

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Development status
  
Active

License
  
Commercial

Developers
  
Zsolt Szatmári

Written in
  
C++, Objective-C

Available in
  
English

Size
  
7 MB

Website
  
gearmusicplayer.com

Initial release
  
April 2012

Operating systems
  
macOS, iOS

Type
  
Audio player

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Stable release
  
macOS 2.1.5 (released June, 2015), iOS 1.2.5 (released March, 2015)

Gear Player is an application for macOS and more recently iOS that allows users to access Google Play Music and YouTube without having to confine themselves to a web browser or having to install Flash Player, with an interface similar to iTunes.

Contents

The application was created in 2012 by Zsolt Szatmári from Hungary.

It is compatible with Lion and up, and iOS 6.1 and up.

Features

Features:

  • play songs added to library from Google Music All Access (a subscription to Google Music All Access is required)
  • YouTube access
  • gapless playback
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • macOS version is capable of transmitting to a Chromecast device, and also displaying on the TV screen what's coming next
  • have an editable queue
  • post currently played song via Twitter or Facebook (Mountain Lion only)
  • fully Retina compatible
  • "Modern Dark" and "Cocoa" visual themes
  • album-, artist- and genre views
  • playlist support
  • compatible with Rogue Amoeba's Nicecast
  • Post songs to Notification Center (Mountain Lion only)
  • Share Sheets (e.g. can post currently audible song via Twitter, Mountain Lion only)
  • Previous, Play, and Next buttons in macOS status bar (can be turned off in settings if not desired)
  • Apple keyboard Previous, Play, and Next buttons (this is achieved by installing an open-source tool called Magic Keys made by the developer to circumvent Sandbox limitations )
  • pause playback if Mac goes to sleep
  • pause/play song by pressing Space
  • filter your songs
  • shuffle, repeat
  • 'instant mixes' and radios
  • Sandbox compliant for the user's security
  • full screen support
  • 2-factor authentication is supported
  • display album art for currently played song

    • Reception

    Gear has been generally well received by the press, citing its ease of use and its many features.

    References

    Gear Player Wikipedia
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