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How can I use the Google Drive connection in Crates?
The Google Drive connection lets you store your music files in your own Google Drive and stream them directly in Crates. It is also an important first step toward full cloud sync between your devices using your own storage.
What you can do with it
- Connect your Google Drive account
- Either right-click the Online Libraries > Google Drive and choose Connect to Google Drive, or
- Go to Settings > Accounts and click Connect to Google Drive.
- During this step you can also choose to import existing music files in your Google Drive folder (as indicated in the dialog).
- Upload files from Crates to Google Drive
- In Crates, right-click on any tune corresponding to a file audiosource (or selection of tracks), go to Actions > Upload to Google Drive.
- Crates will copy those files and upload them to the ‘Crates app data’ in your Google Drive.
- Access your music from another computer
- On a second Crates installation, connect the same Google Drive account (step 1 above)
- Crates will see the files you previously uploaded to that folder and can stream them directly from Google Drive, even if the local files are not on that machine.
- This is especially useful if you use Crates on multiple computers on different networks and want to keep your files available to listen everywhere.
How this relates to future Cloud Sync
The Google Drive connection is an essential stepping stone toward a full Cloud Sync feature, where you will be able to use your own cloud storage (Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox and others) to keep your library and metadata synced between devices, without any third party or us having access to your private files.