Chromium Question

I tried looking on google but could not find an answer.

This would be pretending to use a Chromium powered computer (with <30GB of space)

I like to keep my music as FLAC files for the quality.

Is there a way to keep the files on google drive and stream them while not keeping them locally (like having another computer on the network and playing off their drive).

Can you stream personal movies off of google drive without keeping them locally?

I ask as the new Google Pixel comes with 3 years of 1TB storage and that is more than enough for all my music and I would like to keep it there and play it from there as lossless.


And also the same with photos. With Picassa I remember a 1600x1200 or so resolution limit. Is this still the case? Or could I keep higher resolution photos on there, edit them and keep the same resolution?

Also is there a way to play these over a home network as in a desktop just being a file server?


Thank you

 

Is there a question here or are we just supposed to guess?

 

Is there a way to keep music on google drive and stream it while not keeping them locally (like having another computer on the network and playing off their drive)?

Can you stream personal movies off of google drive without keeping them locally?

Also is there a way to play these over a home network as in a desktop just being a file server?

 

I believe the Google Play Music app is what you're looking for regarding your first and second question.

To play over a network with a desktop computer as your file server, if your network is configured you should be able to map the network drive from any system on your home network to the specified drive on said desktop.

 

I have know about google music but that is only 320kbps and I would like lossless so that does not really work... And I dont think those are google drive files but another system with a 20,000 track capacity.

I was wondering if I could keep my lossless files on the drive and play them from a chromebook without keeping them locally.

 

I don't know if there is a way to migrate GD files.

Since lossless media takes up so much space, I don't know of any viable cloud storage options, let alone any that will provide streaming capability. Can you really tell the difference in a lossless format vs a 320 Kbps compression (or do you need lossless outside of simple aural pleasure)?

 

Do you think that Chromebook will be up for the loseless playback?

 

There is a big difference from lossless to mp3's from the compression. When on campus doing homework it is fine. But when at home with my nice headphones or through a sound system you really hear the difference. Next step for me is to find a digital sound out put from the computer to use a better DAC but that is another thread for another day.

And if I was to get the Google Pixel it has 1TB of google drive storage (about 280GB of music about 50GB of pics) so it would work for me. But the local storage on the computer is 32GB so I would not be able to keep it local. Hence streaming the high quality music from the google drive.

@killkenny1

The Pixel supports FLAC files from what I read and should have more than enough grunt if it can run multiple 1080p videos at once (1.8GHz i5 and HD4000 graphics which is faster than my computer).

 

Better get an external HDD.

 

I know, but I was thinking it would save having to maintain something or be tethered to it.

If not I would get a windows computer and just keep it on the HDD plus another HDD for backup and that would be expensive for a SSD setup or have a desktop plus a external backup for it and that could get spendy and in fire I would loose it all.

I would rather keep it backed up on the cloud and then not have to worry about it (backing it up).

 

You can still backup your music online (although I don't know if it's legal to do so, copyright and such) and use external HDD for music playback. It's not like you aren't tethered by your audio setup already.
In the mean time use those 30GBs for storing some of your tunes locally, just to have something to listen to on the move.

 

I could, then keep my backup on google drive rather than having to buy another drive for the duplicate.

And I have lots of CD's, shelves...

 

Get a external HDD and a headless server like a pi, install Gdrive on the pi and network it and use a nfs share to access the music this way the external HDD is always up to date no matter where you add a file from. Just keeping the important stuff local?

Can't think of a decent way to do it really.

 

Could chromium read media off of a HDD connected to a router?