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How to connect VLC on PC to Google Drive for music playback?

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Heads up to all, I have decided to sign up for Astiga web player, and simply connect my Google Drive to it. It's able to by FLAC, as well of course MP3s and other common audio formats. So far so happy!

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How can I connect VLC on PC to Google Drive for music playback? So far in web of Google Drive, I can open 1 file at a time... not very useful. I'd like to browse into my Google Drive via VLC on PC to queue up multiple tracks.

 

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You install the google drive app, sync it and will then have your files locally for vlc to play. 

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18 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You install the google drive app, sync it and will then have your files locally for vlc to play. 

I'm trying to do a stream instead, so I don't have to do a local file sync

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I doubt that's possible, and what you do now likely downloads the file in the background already. 

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Heads up to all, I have decided to sign up for Astiga web player, and simply connect my Google Drive to it. It's able to by FLAC, as well of course MP3s and other common audio formats. So far so happy!

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YouTube now (2023) has a video on streaming a Google Drive video to VLC which seems relevant.

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