alt.hn

5/30/2026 at 3:01:45 PM

MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/05/30/your-mp3s-from-google-drive-in-music-assistant-on-home-assistant/

by tomayac

6/2/2026 at 11:55:13 PM

Are you _trying_ to get your entire Google account and all its linked accounts banned and nuked at Google's whims when they flag one of your mp3s as being pirated?

by joeframbach

6/3/2026 at 1:24:19 AM

This was my first thought. Why would you use a cloud provider to store MP3s? There are plenty of cheap local options that don't paint a giant target on your back.

by vjsrinivas

6/3/2026 at 12:13:13 AM

It seems like adding an encryption/decryption step might be an easy work around.

I do wonder about this. Google AI Ultra subscriptions come with 30TB(!) of Google Drive storage at no additional cost. Aside from people who do a lot of video editing or want long backups of home surveillance videos, who has that kind of storage need for completely legally licensed content? I'm sure there are some data hoarders out there. But if I were going to back up my NAS to Google I'd sure as hell use a backup tool with encryption, completely negating the ability to use the files natively in Google Drive.

by anticorporate

6/3/2026 at 12:47:12 AM

People in arts and engineering can easily fill terabytes upon terabytes. RAW photos, uncompressed audio, 3D laser scans etc consume gigabytes like they're nothing, especially if you store many intermediary files of the same thing.

by mopsi

6/3/2026 at 2:59:18 AM

The author works at Google.

by OuterVale

6/2/2026 at 11:06:44 PM

That's a very complicated way to have a samba share, but I guess it's fun.

by Muromec

6/2/2026 at 11:38:54 PM

just create mp3 server

by iberator