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We don't know why Google do not develop applications for their services for Linux/Unix, there are Google Chrome and Google Earth applications available for Linux but not for all of Google services, many of us want Google Drive. Well, for Google Play service there is an 3rd party application available for all desktop platforms.
Google Play Music Desktop Player (GPMDP) is a standalone application for Google Play service, now you don't have to hunt through your tabs to pause your music, or stop listening to your favorite track because being a lightweight, standalone framework it uses far less resources than having Google Play Music open in a web-browser tab. This frees up your computer's resources to do things you care about, instead of wasting them on playing music.
GPMDP desktop client is developed by Samuel Attard and from now you don't have to touch your mobile for Google play service because you can do it right from your desktop. It is open source, lightweight, free, and cross platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The application has since been consistently updated, and features Google's Material design, along with nice functionalities like a settings window.
There are also GPMDP apps available for Android and iOS which means you don't even have to touch your desktop, just select something to play from your mobile application and your desktop will play but it's kind of useless because if you are on your PC then you don't have to use mobile to play something.
Do you use Google Play Music on your Android device? If yes, here is good news for you, Samuel Attard developed a Google Play Music desktop client and from now you don't have to touch your mobile for Google play service because you can do it right from your desktop. It is open source, lightweight, free, and cross platform available for Linux/Windows/Mac OS X. Google is known to not make applications for Linux desktop except few like Chrome, etc.. The application has since been consistently updated, and features Google's Material design, along with nice functionalities like a settings window.

The player is based on HTML5 and doesn't require Flash to work, and it has Last.fm integration and there is even a clean implementation of hands-free voice controls (which is experimental). You can also switch to mini-player and make desktop experience better, also there is a panel indicator for this application which comes in handy. Another feature offers media key support that allows you to set hot-keys for specific actions and make it easy to use for yourself.



If it freezes while logging into your Google account, simply run it from terminal using this command (as mentioned in FAQ)
google-play-music-desktop-player --disable-gpu
Deb packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian based distributions but if you are using other distribution then download source from Github and compile it.