[ashwinsundar]

I want to do this too, and have a feeling that it's not as hard or time-consuming as it seems. 15 years ago, all my music lived in a /Music folder and I could play anything in there, instantly. It should be easy to just move that folder to a networked drive, get some sort of mp3 player app on my phone/devices, and point it at that folder. If the app is allowed to download files as well, that's even better. Otherwise, plugging in my phone/mp3 player and uploading songs manually was never particularly difficult, even back then.

If I remember correctly, all my playlists were really just text files used by Windows Media Player or iTunes, so it should be easy to support that type of functionality as well.

[roywiggins]

You can more or less do this with apps that will stream your library off Google Drive. The one I tried demanded permissions to read everything in my Google Drive which seemed too dangerous, but if you had a separate cloud drive somewhere you could set it up pretty easily.

[slig]

I believe it's too risky to have DMCA-able content in Google Drive.

[roywiggins]

Maybe, though I will point out that Google did/does offer this as a service:

https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en

[galleywest200]

The VLC app can read and play from networked drives, at least on my iPad.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Run a DLNA server and you client options grow.