Google Music Manager Finally Launches On Linux

By , Published July 22, 2011

Google have announced the release of Google Music Manager for Linux. 

Google Music Manager in Ubuntu

The Various Steps of Google Music Manager

Google Music Beta, which was launched back in May, lets users upload as many as 20,000 tracks for free access and streaming through the web and mobile devices – wherever they are in the world.

Music is cached for offline play on both the desktop and mobile devices.

At the time of Music Beta’s launch Google only provided Windows and Mac version of ‘Google Music Manager’ – their desktop client for adding and seamlessly syncing your music folder with Google Music Beta. With the release of Google Music Manager for Linux, everyone* is now free to take advantage of the cloud-music-storage service.

Those of you already signed up/using the service can grab the linux installer – provided as both 32bit and 64bit .deb packages – by hitting the ‘Add Music’ button to the top of the player window.

Download | Google Music Manager for Linux (32bit, 64bit .deb)

*Although Google Music Beta is ‘restricted’ to US users, requesting an invite form your Google account via a US proxy ‘gets you in’. Just head to ‘music.google.com’ via a US proxy and request an invite. You only need to use the proxy to request the invite; all other steps, such as using the service, work wherever you are.

Thanks to all who sent this in

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  • Cédric Jolivet

    -1 … only available in the U.S.

    • Roberto Leinardi

      “Just head to ‘music.google.com’ via a US proxy and request an invite. You only need to use the proxy to request the invite; all other steps, such as using the service, work wherever you are.”

      • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

        how long do you have to wait for your the request to come through? just wondering.

        • Aldo Mann

          I waited about a week, it’s not immediately.

        • http://tsunddere.com konart

          Mine came in around a week(Russia)

          • edu ard

            germany here :P around a week, too

        • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

          and the wait begins, oh well its better google music a week later than never,

          • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

            it only took 4 days, :)

      • Ismail Gjevori

        it’s not the same

      • Gabriel G

        I can’t find any free US proxies :(

        • http://gordinskiy.com Артём Гординский

          hidemyass.com – one of the best.

          • Gabriel G

            cheers, everything went smoothly

          • Gabriel G

            cheers, everything went smoothly

          • http://ubuntex.blogspot.com João Santana

            Sad. Can’t load.

          • http://twitter.com/onderbakirtas Önder Emre BAKIRTAŞ

            It has hidden my a**. :].

        • http://gordinskiy.com Артём Гординский

          hidemyass.com – one of the best.

      • Gabriel G

        I can’t find any free US proxies :(

      • Anonymous

        I got an invite in my Gmail without ever doing this, I’m also in Canada. Odd :/ 

    • http://twitter.com/mimurrayy murrayy

      Nah, just sign up over a proxy (e.g. hidemyass.com) and once your in they don’t care anymore.

      • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

        Yeah! I did so and now I’m listening music by google :)

        • Adam Trueman

          How long did it take for the invite to arrive?

          • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

            About 3 days.

      • Connel Hooley

        I’m trying to use hidemyass.com but when I sign in with my google account I get this message come up:

        Your browser’s cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on

      • Connel Hooley

        I’m trying to use hidemyass.com but when I sign in with my google account I get this message come up:

        Your browser’s cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on

        • http://twitter.com/17Twenty Nick Glynn

          Use https://music.google. com and enable SSL. HTH.

          • Rex R

            What ist HTH? How can I enable it?

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QAMU7VOOCWYK5WT6PMLHLSMSFU Anup

            HTH = Hope this helps.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QAMU7VOOCWYK5WT6PMLHLSMSFU Anup

            HTH = Hope this helps.

      • fatriff

        Tried to then just kept getting this message, Your browser’s cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on. Believe me, it is on.

        • Anonymous

          Log out of google / gmail first.

    • Hammas Hamzah

      there’s no invite to me, although i have  request an invite :(

    • Hammas Hamzah

      there’s no invite to me, although i have  request an invite :(

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DWSOTHNJWUCFFCL5XJPX6CNABQ Renan

      Use Grooveshark then

  • http://profiles.google.com/manuel.pol Manuel .

    Great!

  • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

    How can I download deb file? I’m in Google Music but don’t see download link. I’m from Russia.

    • http://gudulin.ru Alexandr

      OK, I’m seeing it :)

      • http://profiles.google.com/lifeua7 Евгений Петрусенко

        И что работает?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DXTXNTQFCTH7T2HF3OPIX6QBDQ Marc

    We’re sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States
    ಠ_ಠ

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

      Read the bottom of the post ;)

  • Sashin Ranasinghe

    Isn’t there something wrong with using a US proxy to get an invite? I mean aren’t they restricting it for a reason?

    I understand that we all should have the right to access it, not just people from the US. But isn’t it somewhat unethical to bypass Google’s restrictions like that…

    • Anonymous

      Well, it’s definitely unethical to actually have restrictions like that.

    • Luis Andrés Gonzalez

      You better ask Tim Berners-Lee

    • Luis Andrés Gonzalez

      You better ask Tim Berners-Lee

  • http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Mark

    Never could’ve guessed you are a Katy Perry fan Joey.  >:D

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YI6YF5MODP2ZBSHKHC6PJ4GQJM DexterP17

      If you look at his Last.fm account you will be able to tell easily.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1220004173 Adam Schwartz

    All of these online music services require you to waste a lot of time, bandwidth and storage space UPLOADING your entire collection to the cloud. Just set up your own home music server and stream it over the web. Check out http://subsonic.org

    Works with Windows/Mac/Linux/iPhone/iPad/Android/and just about anything else you can think of and it is FREE!!!

    • Bob Baird

      I agree Subsonic is the way to go. Buy a license and add video streaming too. Super easy to set up and bam – Media library in your pocket!

  • Adam Trueman

    Having problem with hidemyass.com proxy server. Can log in but get stopped as the site thinks cookies are not enabled. Anybody had any luck on this or any other proxy server?

    • Connel Hooley

      I’m having the same problem :(

      • Adam Trueman

        It’s a problem I was experiencing with hidemyass.com .
        I headed over to zend2.com and it worked fine and sent of a request – still waiting for it to arrive.

    • Bob Hazard

      I had the same thing so I logged out of gmail first then signed in using HMA.  Google freaked out that I had changed continents and asked to verify my identity lol.  Still waiting for invite.

      • Bob Hazard

        My invite arrived yesterday

    • Bob Hazard

      I had the same thing so I logged out of gmail first then signed in using HMA.  Google freaked out that I had changed continents and asked to verify my identity lol.  Still waiting for invite.

  • Adam Trueman

    Having problem with hidemyass.com proxy server. Can log in but get stopped as the site thinks cookies are not enabled. Anybody had any luck on this or any other proxy server?

  • Connel Hooley

    I’m having the same problem :(

  • Connel Hooley

    I’m having the same problem :(

  • Anonymous

    Are you sure the service is only restricted to the US? I live in Italy, I received an invitation some time ago to Google Music without sending the invite request through a proxy service, and I have been using it without problem since…

    • http://twitter.com/andreagrandi Andrea Grandi

      I live in Italy too but I had to use a proxy ;)
      Anyway now it works! Thanks to the Linux client :)

      • Anonymous

        I guess I’ve been lucky then :) Any idea on how to make the client work with unity?

    • http://twitter.com/andreagrandi Andrea Grandi

      I live in Italy too but I had to use a proxy ;)
      Anyway now it works! Thanks to the Linux client :)

  • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

    linux users all over the world are just plain naughty lol, as in seriously you just use a us proxy, ive been using proxies to watch hulu, spotify and bbc iplayer and i never once thought to use it for google music, HOORAY!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/andreagrandi Andrea Grandi

    Just tried but it’s not compatible with Unity :(
    I had to switch to Ubuntu Classic session to be able to use it. Even whitelisting the application just like Skype to make it appear in the tray bar doesn’t work.

    • http://makariolewis.com Makario Lewis

      Yeah, same problem here.

    • http://profiles.google.com/fahadayaz Fahad Ayaz

      That’s strange. Works fine for me. What graphics card do you have?

    • http://profiles.google.com/fahadayaz Fahad Ayaz

      That’s strange. Works fine for me. What graphics card do you have?

      • http://www.mithriltabby.com/ Max Kaehn

        I’ve got an NVidia Ion and don’t get a tray icon.

    • http://profiles.google.com/fahadayaz Fahad Ayaz

      That’s strange. Works fine for me. What graphics card do you have?

    • Túlio Hoffimann

      Instead of use the tray icon, just open again the google music that the running instance will be showed.

    • dakira

      Got it to work by whitelisting the name of the process (MusicManager) instead of the name of the application command (google-musicmanager).

  • Anonymous

    Damn’t, it’s only available in the US.

    • http://www.corbindavenport.com/ Corbin Davenport

      You could use a U.S Proxy.

  • Aldo Mann

    Wow! It lets you upload .ogg files, the Windows version didn’t, yay!

  • Paul Brunton

    Apparently it takes about one week for the invite to process.
    Waiting, waiting, waiting…………

  • Matt Mossholder

    I can’t get the Linux App to let me log in. It keeps saying that “Connection to the service failed”. :/

    • Anilikos Mitsos

      here too.

      On help it is stated that the error is due to virtual machine, but I’m using my regular ubuntu installation to log in, so can’t figure out why realy

    • Josh Geierman

      I use fedora and found I was getting this same message.  I ran strace on the app and it turns out this app depends on ca-certificates being installed.  I installed but also found fedora doesn’t use the name the app was expecting.  This can be seen from the log here:
      open(“/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt”, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
      close(25)    <– this is where it gives up

      I made a symlink:
        ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

      and the app started up and connected just fine.  Now I can upload music

      • Jeremy Pope

        Hmm. I tried this on F15 with no luck… 

    • Josh Geierman

      I use fedora and found I was getting this same message.  I ran strace on the app and it turns out this app depends on ca-certificates being installed.  I installed but also found fedora doesn’t use the name the app was expecting.  This can be seen from the log here:
      open(“/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt”, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
      close(25)    <– this is where it gives up

      I made a symlink:
        ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

      and the app started up and connected just fine.  Now I can upload music

  • Dan Peddle

    alternatively, grooveshark.com :)

  • isaias torres

    thankz, i got 300 files o music uploaded.

  • http://onlineitguide.com James Thoenes

    Yeah! Now I can use my invite properly. :)

  • endle winters

    For anyone else who is slow like me and could not find the link for downloading:  http://music.google.com/music/addmusic?u=0

    I have had an account for some time and have been using an XP VM to run the music manager…uploading a little each night. Running in wine was very crashy and freezy. Happy to see the deb for this!

  • http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels

    This is so great with KPN and Vodafone limting 3G-data use in The Netherlands starting in August. A few songs and then you’re out of data. What an invention.

  • http://twitter.com/MotionShot Heimen Stoffels

    This is so great with KPN and Vodafone limting 3G-data use in The Netherlands starting in August. A few songs and then you’re out of data. What an invention.

  • Philip Stewart

    It always complains about “Could not identify your computer”. Any suggestions?

    • http://twitter.com/lunigma Lui

      What desktop are you using? It seems to only support gnome and kde. I haven’t been able to get it to work on mint-lxde

  • http://profiles.google.com/melnikov.anton Антон Мельников

    Yeah, thanks,  Gooooogle. But we all know, it’s a part of the “Chrome OS conspiracy”.
    So you will know what kind of music I prefer, try to sell me stuff, show ads and delete my files “due to copyright butthurts”.
    Music on mobile devices from the Net, huh. What about traffic costs? And faster battery depletion?

    Sorry Google, your mail and search services are cool, but this whole idea is great for you, not for me.

  • http://koffeehaus.myopenid.com/ Koffeehaus

    thry should also make an app that will be able to play music from google music whih will effectively replace my music player.

  • Anonymous

    Hm, not bad. Thanks, Google.

  • Zs -

    “Stay signed in” button does not appear using KDE. What should I edit in /opt/google/musicmanager/config.xml  to set that option?

    • http://twitter.com/Zaibon Christophe

      Same with gnome… any solution?

  • http://profiles.google.com/lifeua7 Евгений Петрусенко

    We’re sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States(

  • Anonymous

    I’ll stick with my Ubuntu One Mobile! Even if I have to pay for it, at least I’m supporting a good cause!

  • Brian Oswald

    Finally! I’ve been playing around with the Android app lately, wondering when Linux would get it. 

  • Thomas Ebert

    How about downloading your songs for offline mode in the named alternatives (e.g. subsonic)? This is a great plus for googles solution.

    Another question: The android app is also restricted to users form the U.S. Has anyone been able to donwload it outside from the U.S. (hidemyass didnt work here.

  • Thomas Ebert

    How about downloading your songs for offline mode in the named alternatives (e.g. subsonic)? This is a great plus for googles solution.

    Another question: The android app is also restricted to users form the U.S. Has anyone been able to donwload it outside from the U.S. (hidemyass didnt work here.

  • Glaasje

    Us only..

    forget it.

    now were is my gitaur?

  • Glaasje

    Us only..

    forget it.

    now were is my gitaur?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000344203118 Doğukan Korkmaztürk

    @Roberto Leinardi, which proxy did you use? I can’t find any working proxy.

    • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

      I used easy-hide-ip to switch my ip to the US one, just requested for an invite and now I wait, (btw on of the only few apps i still go back to windows for) if you can’t or don’t have windows, just google firefox and us proxy trust me its going get you started.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000344203118 Doğukan Korkmaztürk

        Oh thank you so much, that worked for me too

  • http://profiles.google.com/dhananjaysathe dhananjay sathe

    Google Music toatlly rocks on the android :P

  • http://profiles.google.com/bupahs Keith Rea

    Does not work on Unity, nor in Classic on 11.04

  • http://twitter.com/ButlerPCnet Michael Butler

    Wow, just a bit too late :( when I found Google Music beta didn’t support Linux, I switched to Amazon Cloud Drive + Player and uploaded a lot of music there already.

  • Philip Stewart

    For the people having problems with the “could not identify your computer” errot: Try adding biosdevname=0 to your grub.conf The MusicManager wants your network device name to be eth*

    • http://profiles.google.com/bupahs Keith Rea

      not in Ubuntu 11.04

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4BNNDYD7DUMHTSBDFLFQ535VIQ fean

    If any one help me to get an invitation it would be very kind

    fean101@yahoo.com

  • Zombie Kitten

    To be honest, as long as there are music services out there that try to prevent me from using them by blocking my country, I’ll have absolutely no qualms about pirating any music I want to listen to. 

    • Anonymous

      The exact opposite of shooting the messenger.

      • Zombie Kitten

        In Soviet Russia the messenger shoots you?

        (sorry, I’m not sure what your comment is referring to :P )

        • Anonymous

          Justifying piracy because some streaming sites don’t support your region is a bit of a non sequitor.

          Shooting the messenger – harming the middleman because the message sucks.

          The opposite of that is harming the original content producer (stealing their product) because a couple services, that they have little to no control over, aren’t playing fair.

          • Zombie Kitten

            Hmmm… you have a point here, but I see it as simply a kind of workaround. Let’s say that a music streaming site X has the song Y. However, when I go there to listen to it, it tells me that I can’t do it because I live in the wrong country. So, to get around that, I simply look for a place on the internet that also has the song Y, but doesn’t tell me that I need to move to another country to listen to it.

            In fact, it seems to me that in such a situation, fighting piracy is ethically wrong, since only piracy guarantees that all people have access to contemporary culture on equal terms (I’m not saying that everyone should be able to download everything for free, I’m just saying that there should be equal terms for everyone).

            As for original content producer, I’ve never seen original content producers getting organized together to actually do something against that kind of location-based censorship. They could at least try – make petitions to companies so that they allow everyone to have access to their music. It may not work, but at least the fans would see that their favorite musicians actually care about them. But I think that if there’s enough demand from musicians that their music is distributed globally without restrictions, then someone will actually provide that.

          • Anonymous

            I second that equality is first thing humans should look forward groove shark is better option bro and it’s semi legal too :)

  • Zombie Kitten

    To be honest, as long as there are music services out there that try to prevent me from using them by blocking my country, I’ll have absolutely no qualms about pirating any music I want to listen to. 

  • Anonymous

    No ARM builds :-(

  • Anonymous

    It looks like an Ubuntu app.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002167018726 Maximilian Reisch

      yeah you see that on the search page and that black bar too. i love that because it fits nicely with my ubuntu setup.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002167018726 Maximilian Reisch

      yeah you see that on the search page and that black bar too. i love that because it fits nicely with my ubuntu setup.

    • Anonymous

      Ambiance + Google Music = Bravo! They are made one for the other!

  • Anonymous

    It looks like an Ubuntu app.

  • Anonymous

    It looks like an Ubuntu app.

  • http://ninja.pk Aaqil Mahmood

    Hurray! waiting to see it for Pakistan.

  • http://gordinskiy.com Artem Gordinskiy

    Spotify is much better for me, as my internet connection is 512/256. I could listen not only to the music I have, but to ALL of music ever recorded. Well, almost. 
    And yes, they have beta Linux client, too. It will only cost 5-10 bucks a month, depending on your needs. Google Music is still semi-legal, btw.

  • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

    anyone else faced the icon not being in the system panel, and found a fix of any sort.

    • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

      you can either add the app to the panel whitelist or just allow all apps to get on that whitelist,

      dconf-editor –> desktop —>unity —> panel —> ['edit here'] instructions are down there

      • http://www.therealneo.com JohnDoe

        the ['all'] is a bad idea though

  • Anonymous

    Just tried it on my system (11.04 64bit), it was completely unusable. Had to remove it after my system developed shut down and start up problems which disappeared after I removed it!

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t this a clone of the Ubuntu One streaming music service?

  • shashank agarwal

    Thanks a lot, just waiting for the invite now. and used this  for US proxy – http://pressfilter.info . hope i android app is available in India .

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002167018726 Maximilian Reisch

    Google sure LOVES ubuntu’s colors :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Felipe-Araújo/100000923339064 Carlos Felipe Araújo

    Brazil, 2000 years after :O

  • http://twitter.com/Azur_BlackHole Azur

    Why not a integration with Banshee?

  • http://twitter.com/Azur_BlackHole Azur

    Why not a integration with Banshee?

  • Support – Bestvpnservice.com

    Thanks for the post. Though i have noticed that it is only accessible from US. and if you want to access it from somewhere else then your ISP will not permit you to do that. Though my friend told me that best vpn service is the best option if i want to access music beta outside us…Any ideas which is the best best vpn to get google music beta outside us???
    I am planning to go with hidemyass vpn service…

 
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