MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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?

Re: MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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Post by anticorporate » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 12:13 AM UTC

joeframbach wrote: post #5

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?

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.

Re: MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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Post by mopsi » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

anticorporate wrote: post #6

joeframbach wrote: post #5

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?

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…

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.

Re: MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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Post by haunter » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

What you actually need is copyparty, nothing else

https://github.com/9001/copyparty

Re: MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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Post by vjsrinivas » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

joeframbach wrote: post #5

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?

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.

Re: MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

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Post by OuterVale » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 2:59 AM UTC

joeframbach wrote: post #5

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?

The author works at Google.