Like most millennials, I grew up with Napster, then Kazaa, then eDonkey2000, obviously CD rips, and of course LAN parties. Over the years, this has led to a large collection of completely legal MP3 files that I have backed up on two large external USB spinning disks that haven't spun for a long time now, but the files also exist on Google Drive. I'm also heavily invested in the Home Assistant ecosystem, which lets you install a full-featured music player app called Music Assistant. These days, of course I pay for my music (we have the YouTube Music family plan), but I recently thought it'd be fun to revive my old MP3 collection. This blog post describes how to connect Google Drive to Music Assistant on Home Assistant. Create a rclone configuration for Google Drive 🔗 The first step is running rclone, a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. Among many other providers, it supports Google Drive. Download rclone to your regular computer (that is, very likely, not your Home…
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