Gear Player

Gear PlayerFile:G-Ear music player screenshot.png

Developer(s)| Zsolt Szatmári
Initial release| April, 2012
Stable release|

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

Written in| Objective-C, C++
Operating system| macOS,[1]iOS[2]
Size| 7 MB
Available in| English
Type| Audio player
License| Commercial
Website| www.gearmusicplayer.com

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[3] or having to install Flash Player, with an interface similar to iTunes.[4]

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

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

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 Reception
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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 [5])
* 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[1]

## Reception

Gear has been generally well received by the press, citing its ease of use and its many features.[4][6][7][8][9]

## See also

* Comparison of audio player software

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mac App Store product page
2. ↑ App Store product page
3. ↑ Try A Cheap Mac App That Brings Google Music To Your Ears (without browser or Flash)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Google Play Musique : quel client Mac choisir ?
5. ↑ Magic Keys, a tool that gives exclusive access to media keys to media applications
6. ↑ G-Ear – Desktop Mac-Client für Google Play Music
7. ↑ The Verge - Best Mac Apps
8. ↑ Mac360 - Got Google Music? Get Gear Player!
9. ↑ A YouTube review by Original doBo

## External links

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