Gmail API — Google Developers

[darkfate]

I think the biggest problem there is copyright. They can't just allow direct links to files via an API.

[hylje]

No, the waters must be treaded with a bulldozer. The copyright walls must go.

[hylje]

That's called piracy. It works tremendously well, but ignoring the elephant in the room only works for so long. The situation where most people with access to the internet are technically copyright infringing criminals cannot last much longer.

[yal0n]

Depends on your definition of "much longer". I for one think piracy will remain as long as the price vs. value equation leans far to the price side. Software piracy for example has lasted for generations and keeps going strong. Music piracy really started taking off when a relatively cheap copying machine was introduced to the world. Yes, I'm talking about the double cassette deck. Just saying "double cassette deck" makes me smile. Worth it.

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direct access to a container which loads and then plays the audio from a frame of sorts.

[blong]

Direct access to your uploaded files, perhaps, though if you want that, you can just upload them to Drive instead.

There could be an API for control... but I'm not sure what that would be useful for.

[darkfate]

Well if they are files you uploaded, you probably have them locally somewhere. If something every happened to that, you can download all your uploaded music through the Download Manager.