Ha I just saw your edit. No need to feel stupid. I’m clawing my through all this stuff as well. Every step of the way I’ve been learning as I go. Figure out one thing and then it’s something else.
I wish I was smart enough to somehow fix this track skipping issue inside the gmusic_player without relying on something else but at this point, that seems a long way off so relying on gmusicproxy will likely be around for awhile. Would love to see a gmusicproxy add-on for Hass io. Sure would make this much easier. Maybe we could furnish the add-on master @frenck with lavish gifts , beer and monetary bribes. I would give it a shot myself but I don’t use hass io or even docker for that matter. I’d have much to learn and not enough time for me at this point. I could on the other hand create a FreeNAS plugin for gmusicproxy if anyone wanted. I would be surprised to see how many people run HA on FreeNAS and use gmusic_player