Feature Request: Open share links

[jasekiw]

When ever I click on a shared google play music link (The link generated when hitting share on a song), I would like there to be some way to open the destination in the desktop player.

Current workaround:

• Open the share link in the browser.
• Read the name of the artist and song name
• Search this in the desktop player

This would make is much easier to listen to music sent from friends.

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[jostrander]

This is already possible, but a little less obvious. If you press ctrl+shift+g in the player you can paste the share URL and the player will navigate to the shared link. I don't believe we can register url handlers for play music because http is already registered, and we can't register anything more specific than that.

[jasekiw]

I don't see that hotkey on the hotkeys settings page, that would be a good place to add this.

I just tried it but for some reason it doesn't do anything after hitting Let's Go. The dialog disappears but it doesn't navigate anywhere.

[jostrander]

What link are you trying to navigate to? That dialog does have some guarding so you can't browse the web in the app.

[jasekiw]

I just hit share on a song from the app and copied it right back in.

https://play.google.com/music/r/m/Tclrw7tcnfb6yo63op63f3rddoe?t=Vogue_-_Mia_Vaile

[jasekiw]

I found out why it wasn't working. It doesn't navigate if you are playing music. This isn't so obvious until you try it with music stopped. I assume this is to protected the user from wiping their playlist because it causes a full page reload.

Is there a way to control play music's navigation client side? Is there any information that can be gathered on this matter or is the player completely black boxed? Thanks!

[MarshallOfSound]

I found out why it wasn't working. It doesn't navigate if you are playing music. This isn't so obvious until you try it with music stopped. I assume this is to protected the user from wiping their playlist because it causes a full page reload.

This makes sense now that I think about it, I guess the best thing to do is to assume the user knows what they are doing and just navigate 😆

[jasekiw]

@MarshallOfSound Is it possible to navigate the application on the client side? Play music navigates to a share link client side once the page is loaded. Is there any way to control google play music's router?

[ShowMeBillyJo]

Is it possible to navigate the application on the client side? Play music navigates to a share link client side once the page is loaded. Is there any way to control google play music's router?

@MarshallOfSound: One thought I had about this is to navigate to the pasted URL in a separate process, wait for it to finish, and then capture the relevant hash. For example:

1. Paste https://play.google.com/music/m/Tem7hx6faq5ldtpqjzhqh2ejjrq?t=Beauty_Beats_-_Beats_Antique
2. Navigate and wait. The client-side URL eventually switches to https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/album/Bl6po7brycpievzideeptcpccjy
3. Replace the hash on the main UI with #/album/Bl6po7brycpievzideeptcpccjy.

[artemskriabin]

opening links using ctrl+shift+g does not work in youtube music also I would like to open links in app instead of browser