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+#gmusic.api: an unofficial Java API for Google Play Music
+
+The project is not supported nor endorsed by Google. 
+
+**Respect Google in your use of the API**. Use common sense (protocol compliance, reasonable load, etc) and don't ruin the fun for everyone else.
+
+This project is a port of [(Simon Weber's great work)](https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API) of a port [(Taylor Finnell's port to .NET)](https://github.com/Byteopia/GoogleMusicAPI.NET) written in Java.
+
+**Feature Overview:**
+
+* Getting library information:
+    * all song metadata
+    * all user playlist titles and ids
+    * songs from a specific playlist
+
+* Song downloading
+
+The api currently only implement read methods (get and retrieval) but more methods could be implemented in time either by me or you:)
+
+This project is licensed under GNU GPL, Version 3.
+
+Copyright 2012
+[Jens Kristian Villadsen] (http://www.genuswillehadus.net).
+[Baron Keith Hall, Sapien Mobile, LLC] (http://www.sapienmobile.com).