Download songs from Google Music

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Google Music is a new service from Google that allows you to store your music on the cloud and listen to them wherever you want 🙂 However, there is no option available at this time to download the songs you’ve previously uploaded.

I’ve created a simple app that allows you to download ALL the music you’ve on Google Music. It supports the download of all the songs, searches and playlists… mainly because download all the songs when you only want one is not very useful 😛

It is quite simple:

  1. Open the app (just in case :P)
  2. Login to Google Music (you’ll be asked, don’t worry)
  3. Go to “Songs” or search something or go to a playlist
  4. Click “Download those songs!”
  5. Wait until it finishes and enjoy 🙂

Songs will be stored on the same directory under the name “<Artist> – <Title>.mp3” where artist and title are the real title and artist of the song.

I’d love to hear from you and use your feedback to improve the app 😉

Updates

01/12/2011

  • Download link now points to the correct location… sorry about that

17/11/2011

  • UltraID3Lib replaced with TagLibSharp

11/11/2011

  • [Feature] Title, album and artist are now written to the file with ID3 tags using UltraID3Lib (Alex McChesney)
  • [FIX] Application now closes instead of running in background without notice (Alex McChesney)
  • [FIX] Invalid characters are now changed to underscores (Alex McChesney)
  • [FIX] When downloading multiple files with the same name, the application will now rename them to file(counter) instead of overwriting it all over again (Alex McChesney)

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50 thoughts on “Download songs from Google Music

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  2. Alex M

    Hi there.

    I was looking for a tool to let me download my extensive Google Music library. This almost fits the bill, but there are a couple of things that might be nice to add.

    Firstly, the song titles in Google Music are read from the original MP3’s ID3 tags. This means that they can contain characters that aren’t always allowed in Windows file names. Your downloader just seems to skip any song that has an invalid character, where it should ideally rename them in a windows-friendly fashion. It also doesn’t maintain ID3 data, so there’s no indication of the album that a particular track comes from.

    I realise that adding ID3 data might be a little tricky, however, as you would probably have to insert it yourself.

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  3. Carballude Post author

    maria The songs are stored in the same directory of the application. If, for example, you downloaded the application to your desktop, the songs will be stored in your desktop.

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  4. Dave

    I have a quick question. I was looking for an app to do exactly what yours does except for some reason I am only able to download about half of my music collection. When I try to continue downloading the rest, it downloads one song and then gives me an error. Any suggestions?

    Here is a copy of the error if it helps…

    System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘taglib-sharp, Version=2.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db62eba44689b5b0’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
    File name: ‘taglib-sharp, Version=2.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db62eba44689b5b0’

    Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated…

    Dave

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    1. Carballude Post author

      During some days the link to download the program was pointing to the wrong exe file which produced the failure you’re experiencing. It is due to a missing dll file I was supposed to distribute with the application.

      If you download the application again you should get a zip file containing both the exe and a dll that will prevent that failure 🙂

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  5. Jeremy

    So it looks like this app downloads all the music in the songs section of Music. I just purchased an album through Google Music that I want to download back to my computer. Is it possible to do that without going through each individual track to download?

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    1. Carballude Post author

      I didn’t tried myself, but I’m guessing that you could create a playlist with all the songs you want to download (in this case, all songs of that album) and then download the playlist (which is supported by the program).

      To easily create the playlist, you could search by album and select all the songs in just one click, then right button to create the playlist containing the selected songs 😉

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      1. Jeremy

        PERFECT solution. Thank you so much for your help. Each time i tried to download it straight from the album, it told me i had to be in the songs section.

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  6. Dan

    so this means that google is removing the mp3 tags once the files are uploaded oh their site? or ar the tags lost at download? losing the tags would be a major bummer for me…

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    1. Carballude Post author

      I do not know the details about how Google Music operates because, to the best of my knowledge, they’re not public.

      What I can say is that the method I use to download songs seems to strip out the tags. Fortunately enough, Alex M has implemented a system that will acquire the title, artist and album from the web page and write the appropriate tags to the MP3.

      However, I’m afraid any other tags are lost in the process 🙁

      Reply
  7. Malone

    Thanks Pablo, useful application, but there is not options to download one, or more songs. Only all of them
    Download “Search Results” or “Playlist” don’t work for me.
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Google Chrome 16.0.912.63 m

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  10. Babette

    Hi. I only want to download certain playlists, but the app is trying to download my ENTIRE collection and then it crashes. How do I just download a few songs from a playlist or an album?

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    1. Carballude Post author

      You can create a Playlist and then download it. Some people with large collections are experimenting similar issues… creating playlists with less than 1000 songs seems to be a good workaround.

      Reply
  11. Renan Altendorf

    Amazing, great job!

    I know that the program is new but if you want to implement the future more, it would be interesting:
    – Download the songs in folders “Artist – Album Name”
    – Be able to define what albums / artists

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    1. Carballude Post author

      Issues downloading large collections have been reported in the past, however it doesn’t seem to happen to everyone or with a fix amount of songs.

      A workaround that seems to work for all situations is the creation of different playlists, each of them with a fare amount of songs. Downloading these playlist one by one allow you to download your entire collection with just a few clicks.

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  14. Gabe

    Hey,
    This App Sounds Great! I downloaded it, but when i tried to open it my Mac wouldn’t let me because it was a Windows app. Is there any way you can make it compatible for Macs?
    -Thanks

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    1. Carballude Post author

      The main issue is the use of an embedded Internet Explorer within the application. It seems fairly reasonable to think that changing it for a WebKit component will make it work under Mac.

      I’ve never developed for Mac before and I’m afraid I lack the time I’d need to make the appropriate changes. However, the source code is public and anyone with the necessary skills and the time, could add Mac compatibility.

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  17. Egrodo

    It seems to be downloading my songs but I cant find where they are being downloaded to? I checked my downloads folder (where I downloaded the ZIP to) and nothing was in there? Please help I want my music.

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  18. S. H

    Hi, this is exactly what i need! however i am having a problem opening the app. i downloaded it but it only opens in read-only format. what should i do? your help would be greatly appreciated!

    sidenote: im using a mac.

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  19. R.W.

    First of thank you for this program. It’s great. It was working perfect for me but now I keep getting this error. Any ideas?

    See the end of this message for details on invoking
    just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

    ************** Exception Text **************
    System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at GoogleMusic_Downloader.FindFilesWindow.btDownloadSongs_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

    ************** Loaded Assemblies **************
    mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
    —————————————-
    GoogleMusic Downloader
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Randy/Desktop/GoogleMusic%20Downloader.exe
    —————————————-
    System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
    —————————————-
    System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
    —————————————-
    System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
    —————————————-
    Microsoft.mshtml
    Assembly Version: 7.0.3300.0
    Win32 Version: 7.0.3300.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.mshtml/7.0.3300.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.mshtml.dll
    —————————————-

    ************** JIT Debugging **************
    To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
    application or computer (machine.config) must have the
    jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
    The application must also be compiled with debugging
    enabled.

    For example:

    When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
    will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
    rather than be handled by this dialog box.

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  20. Terry

    I try using the ap but when I log into Google music and click on the cd I want to download I get message saying there is a source code error and it won’t open the list of songs. Any idea what’s up?

    Thanks,

    Terry

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  21. Jeff

    When Google switched over to the Google Play moniker, it changed the source code. The change rendered this tool and all similar tools useless.

    Reply
  22. sid

    I really want to use this app! But I’m getting the following error when I am on the Songs screen and click Download…

    ************** Exception Text **************
    System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at GoogleMusic_Downloader.FindFilesWindow.btDownloadSongs_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
    at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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  24. Boris65

    I do not download google, I go to YouTube, copy the link of the song, and then inserted into the form on the site youtubeconverter.me and convert YouTube to mp3 in

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