How can I hotlink an mp3 in Google Drive with a URL ending in .mp3?

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I would like to obtain a link to an mp3 hosted in Google Drive that has the format filename.mp3, so I can link to it from sites that provide in-line audio players when linking to mp3 files.

I have searched the web and different SE sites, but the closest thing to a solution I have found is obtaining a direct download link for the file or advice on hosting it elsewhere. However, for (future) convenience I would prefer to host and link directly from / to Google Drive.

Can anyone provide some insight or point out why this might not work?

mbaljeetsingh · Accepted Answer

Yes, it is possible.

First, change the directory permission to public in which your mp3 files reside. 
Copy the folder ID, that will be at the end of URL when you are inside the directory. It will be something like this

0C2QKl-TsV6cVTE7wbWNOelRiRlk

Next you can access the mp3 files using hosted mode:

https://googledrive.com/host/0C2QKl-TsV6cVTE7wbWNOelRiRlk/filename.mp3

Note that the beginning part of the URL changes to https://googledrive.com/host/ for hosted mode compared to "normal" shared link mode URL https://drive.google.com/open?id=.

Johan Suh · Answer

spent an entire day on this problem. like others say it
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
worked few minutes then it got blocked.
I used Github.  basically, you can drag and drop an MP4 file to an issue then use that link to upload in my code works.   NOT MP3 because GitHub allows only certain files to be uploaded.  then I googled mp3 convert to mp4   (which https://www.zamzar.com/). works.

Jasbir · Answer

This example works:

tfrancois · Answer

I had the same issue and got it work with the following URL:

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Ali · Answer

Don't know if this still helps anybody, but this can be done. With an “anybody with the link can view the file” link:

prefix the file ID with uc?id= and append it with &export=download

So it would look like this:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=FILE-ID&export=download

Kpym · Answer

If you share an MP3 by link, you obtain a link like this

https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/view?usp=sharing

where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the ID of your MP3 file. Then you can obtain a direct link to this audio by

http://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

In particular you can use

<audio controls>
   <source src="http://docs.google.com/uc?export=open&id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" type="audio/mp3">
   <p>Your browser does not support HTML5 audio :(</p>
</audio>

user95558 · Answer

I researched this topic today for about an hour. As of recently (i.e. 2015/05), I also don't believe it's possible any more, but I'd love to be proved wrong.

References

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/gyv_QYx8T7M
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/8dTBhovs38U/9pvfxjQxgnkJ

How can I hotlink an mp3 in Google Drive with a URL ending in .mp3?

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