Enable Google Play Music GMusic

GMusic is no longer available (see https://play.google.com/music). This howto won’t work anymore.

See this thread for details: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/issues/522

You can connect your Phoniebox to Google Play Music.

You need to extend mopidy to work with Gmusic.

You can manage GMusic the same way you are doing this with Spotify (using the iris-interface activate GMusic at the top right search). Then you need to copy the GMusic URI instead of the Spotify URI. The cover won't be added automatically, everything else seems to work.

How to add Gmusic

Using the 2 factor authentification (as you should), you first need to create an application password in your account. That way, you don't need to add your own password during the configuration - and can block the access easily any time for the application.

• go to https://myaccount.google.com/
• go to Security --> App Passwords --> (Login) --> “Generate”
• where it says Custom App add your name
• use the generated password

Install and configure mopidy-gmusic

Prerequisite: You need to have Phoniebox Spotify edition installed.

ATTENTION: Currently (pre 2.0 version) this works only with Phoniebox installations from develop branch, because Mopidy 3 is necessary.

• Install GMusic sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements-gmusic.txt
• Configure GMusic login mopidy gmusic login

Manual configuration

Edit /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf:

sudo nano /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf

Add your configuration:

If you don't have "All Access" (the streaming subscription), Set this to false in this step.

[gmusic]
username = your.name@gmail.com
password = your_password
deviceid = mac
all_access = true
bitrate = 160

Troubleshooting

Mopidy fix for interrupted streams

See Issue 161 for details.

Simply change /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mopidy/audio/actor.py so that this line:

_GST_PLAY_FLAGS_AUDIO = 0x02

Looks like this:

_GST_PLAY_FLAGS_AUDIO = 0x02 + 0x80