When comparing Google Play Music Desktop Player vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Mellow Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Windows?” Mellow Player is ranked 27th while Google Play Music Desktop Player is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose Mellow Player is:
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
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Pros
Pro Native
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
Pro AppImage
It is available as AppImage so you can easily try it.
Cons
Con Runs just the webplayer inside a chromium/electron window.
Con No Portable version
It has no portable release wich makes it unusable for Office.
Con QML
It written in Qt-QML which ignores all Human Interface Guidelines and make the app look like a web page.
Con Not native
It's using qt5-webengine which is not much different from electron / a webbrowser.