Over the past few weeks, I've been becoming increasingly annoyed how the Google Music Manager Beta for Ubuntu fails to remember my password.

Like many of you out there I utilise the Google 2 Step Authentication for my account. Every time I launched the Google Music Beta application on Ubuntu I had to then log into my Google Account and recreate an application specific password for Google Music Manager Beta.

So, today I decided enough was enough and started playing around with various flags to start the application.

You guessed it, I found a way!

Follow these simple steps:

Launch a terminal window

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cd /usr/share/applications

In here there is a small file called 'google-musicmanager.desktop' That's exactly what we need!

We need to edit that file like so:

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sudo nano google-musicmanager.desktop

Once the nano screen opens, you'll see this:

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[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Google Music Manager

# Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName.

GenericName=Google Music Manager

# Gnome and KDE 3 uses Comment.

Comment=Upload to Google Music

Exec=/opt/google/musicmanager/google-musicmanager

Terminal=false

Icon=google-musicmanager

Type=Application

Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Network;

Does it seem complicated? Well, it's not. We need to add a flag onto the line starting with Exec=

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Exec=/opt/google/musicmanager/google-musicmanager -p XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Replace the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with your Google Account password or Google Application Specific Password for the Google Music Manager Beta application

Your final file should look like this:

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[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Google Music Manager

# Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName.

GenericName=Google Music Manager

# Gnome and KDE 3 uses Comment.

Comment=Upload to Google Music

Exec=/opt/google/musicmanager/google-musicmanager -p MyPasswordIsNotThis

Terminal=false

Icon=google-musicmanager

Type=Application

Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;Network;

Now that's complete, just click Ctrl+X, then click Y and then Enter.

You've just saved the shortcut. Now, if Google Music Manager Beta is running, exit the application. Try to relaunch it by selecting it from your application menu.

Voila! There you have it. Automatically logging you in just as we wanted it!

Did this help you? Is so, let me know in the comments...

Tags: Ubuntu 11.04 Google Music Manager Beta, Remember Password Google Music Manager Beta, Google Music Linux remember password