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I'm considering Google as my cloud provider. 99% of my 500GB of music are FLAC. Does Google store them as FLAC or do they get converted. At this point I'm thinking backup and not streaming, although after I learn more about it, streaming theoretically sounds fun. A bit of insight would be appreciated.
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If by Google cloud you mean drive.google.com. I use it and store FLAC there. It stays as FLAC. I think you are talking about music.google.com which allows you to upload your music library for streaming, that one converts to MP3.
Google Drive is just storage and won't mess with your files.
Can it connect as a drive letter. Have you ever played files directly from google drive?
with my Auralic Aries using Bubble DS Next app on android I can stream folders directly to my Aries from Google Drive which is sort of an internet player and streamer. There's an icon for Google Drive on Bubble DS Next and tap on it and next thing I know I am streaming FLAC, even my high res archives.
I use Google Chromebook Pixel, I'm not familiar with Drive Letters anymore, I'm sure you can find out though. The great thing is once you start paying for a Google Service they have customer service that can help you. I found this article, if you are meaning drive letter like you are using Windows you might want to take a look at the link below...
Nice link but this is about using the Windows app for Google Drive.
If you install this on a PC you get
C:\Users\user name\Google Drive
In this dir all files are available.
You might as well point the media player to this Dir.
In fact all files are on your local HD
To the best of my knowledge: using Google Drive this way means you synchronize between your local HD and the cloud storage.
You don't access the clud storage directly
The Well Tempered Computer
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-mount-your-google-drive-on-linux-with-google-drive-ocamlfuse/
Well I do have a Linux system, you can use this if you have one also.
I use Bubble DS and it streams from google drive, no need for a machine to be on...
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, I haven't used Windows since around 1997.
Dropbox doesn't, at least to my knowledge.
.pdf stays .pdf as well as all of the other document formats.
I would hope, anyway.
sorry, cheap come on...
I hope that they wouldn't, but I read somewhere that when you stream from google it converts to MP3. I'm not technically savvy enough to know if this is apples to oranges or not.
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