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by Martin Brinkmann on May 28, 2013 in Google - 15 comments
Google Music is Google's go to service for all things music. While that is the case, I'm not entirely sure if users from all over the world have access to it. While I do have access, I cannot use all features that Google makes available in this regard.The All Access music streaming service is for instance not available in my country yet.
You can upload music files to Google Music to play them online, but that is not the only option that you have. You can also host music on Google Drive and while it was previously possible to play those songs in the browser directly, a recent change seems to prevent this from happening now.
Music files seem to open up with the default Google Drive Viewer app which does not play them. While you are taken to a preview page, it simply states 'no preview available', and that you can download the file or use one of the apps that you have installed to open it.
It is however easy to get Google Drive to play mp3 files directly on the site without downloading them first to your computer. Follow these easy steps to enable this for your account:
Play mp3 on Google Drive
It is easy if you already have at least one mp3 file on Google Drive. Browse to a mp3 file and right-click it
Select Open With > Connect More Apps from the context menu that opens up.
Find Music Player for Google Drive in the list. You can enter music to find it faster.
Click connect and follow the on-screen instructions.
Double-click on the mp3 again once you are back on Google Drive.
You will receive a prompt asking you to allow access to Music Player for Google Drive.
Click on Allow access and the music should start to play in an on-screen player right away.
If you have no mp3 file on Google Drive right now do the following instead:
Click on Settings in the upper right corner and select Manage apps from the menu.
Click on Connect more apps and follow the instructions above from 3. on.
You can play one or multiple audio files to the playlist to play them all one after the other. Hollywood movie in hindi.
Keep in mindHappy new year videos free download songs. : All music that you upload to Google Drive counts against your storage limit whereas you can upload 20,000 songs to Google Play Music without affecting it.
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Remark: there have been reports of errors when trying to download. See this thread.
There are several options how to do this.
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Data added in Google Photos (Descriptions or captions added in Picasa Web Albums, changed date/time, locations) are stored in a database and not downloaded when using the download options in Google Photos. If possible it is recommended to add captions or locations and changing dates before you upload to Google Photos.
The only method to download both Originals and Edited copies in batch is by using Google Takeout
Downloading more than one photo at once leads to downloading a ZIP file.
Download a single picture or video
Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
Click 'More options' (3 dots icon at the top-right corner)
Click 'Download' (Shift+D) or 'Download original' (unedited version)
OPTION 2:
Select a picture or video by hovering over it and clicking the check mark in the top left corner.
Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner), then select 'Download' (Shift+D).
OPTION 3:
Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
Drag and drop the photo to File Explorer (checked in Windows 10)
In Album Archive
Open a photo
Click 'More option' (three dots in the top-right corner)
Click 'Download Photo'
Download up to 500 selected pictures or videos using Google Photos
This method has a limitation of up to 500 pictures and/or videos that can be downloaded at one time
Select multiple photos: see here how to select.
At the top right, click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
Click 'Download' (Shift+D)
The pictures will be downloaded in a zip file.
When a photo is edited in Google Photos, only the edited copy will be downloaded.
Download your own albums or albums shared with you
Open the album by left-clicking on the album or on the link to the album
Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
Click 'Download all'
All files in the album will be downloaded in a zip file. See below for how to extract images from a zip file. Note: when a photo is edited in Google Photos only an edited copy is downloaded
Can't Download Google Drive Files
Download albums using Album Archive
Go to your Album Archive at https://get.google.com/albumarchive
Click 'More options' (three vertical dots in the top-right corner)
Click 'Download album'
Download albums using Picasa3 (disabled)
Download Files From Google Drive Without Zipping Software
Google disabled this option in March 2018
Download using Google+ (disabled)
Google+ is no longer available for personal and brand accounts since April 2019
Download using Google Takeout
Using Google Takeout to download all your pictures and videos including backed up files from Android and iOS mobile uploads (Google Photos app) or from a computer.
Move Files From Google Drive To Computer
Go to https://www.google.com/settings/takeout and login using a desktop computer. Click 'Deselect all' unless you want to download ALL data from ALL products.
Scroll down to 'Google photos' and select it. The button 'Multiple formats' gives some info about what will be downloaded.
Click 'All photo albums included' to get the list of albums. All albums are selected by default.
To select specific albums, click 'Deselect all' and select the albums you want to download. When you added ALL your photos to albums you can ignore the (often empty) folders with a date as title. To find albums down the list you can use the Find function of the browser (Ctrl+F). See also Notes 2-3 below
Click 'OK' to continue. That brings you back to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Next step'
Choose how you want to get the data ('Customize format')
Choose 'Delivery method' (includes Email, Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box .. ). Select an option to get more info. Note that this will create a ZIP file in all cases, but not all services can UNZIP. Search for example 'Google Drive' unzip to find how to unzip in Drive.
'Export type' (One-time or scheduled every 2 months)
'File type' - choose Zip format
'Archive size'
Click 'Create archive' or 'Link account and create archive' (depends on delivery format you selected)
After awhile, you'll receive an email that says 'Your Google data archive is ready'
for example your Zip file is ready to download. Download and unzip the file into a drive that has enough room to store it. The file size could be quite large depending on how many photos are in your collection.
or where it is stored, for example 'View in OneDrive'. In OneDrive or the like you will find a ZIP file with the photos/videos. To my knowledge there is no UNZIP feature in OneDrive.
Notes
When a photo is edited in GP the ZIP folder includes both the original and the edited photos.
In takeout you find many albums with a date as title. That is how they are stored. You may have to unpack them all and move to one folder. ExifTool is quite effective for moving photo files into new folder organization. See a step-by-step blog post by I. Gouy.
Photos that are in your own albums may also be present in the dated albums. Thus when you download everything using Takeout there may be duplicates between the 'Auto Backup' albums listed by date and your own albums. Takeout works better when you add ALL photos to albums and deselect the dated albums. It may be worth to add ALL photos to (for example) year albums before you use Takeout.
The ZIP folder also includes .json files with data (for example descriptions, locations) added in Google Photos. Google does not provide any tools to add them to the photos, but EXIFTool seems able to do it:
Takeout does not remove photos from Google Photos.
Google Drive Zip File Download
Download using 'Google Photos' folder in Google Drive
This folder is only present when the option 'Create a Google Photos folder' is activated in the settings of Drive.
Photos are sorted in year/month folders. Own-made albums must be downloaded using another method.
This folder is ONLY intended to show photos uploaded directly to Google Photos in Drive. You cannot use it to add folders to Google Photos
Photos uploaded from the computer using 'Backup & Sync' are NOT added to the 'Google Photos' folder in Drive. See a work-around below.
Downloading manually from 'Google Photos' folder in 'My Drive'.
Go to https://drive.google.com and sign in to your Google account
Click 'Google Photos' folder on the main panel. Select a folder or one or more photos.
In the top right corner of Drive, click the 3 vertical dots ('More actions').
Click 'Download'
See also: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534?hl=en
Sync using Google Drive
When you have activated Create a Google Photos folder in the settings of G drive you will have a 'Google Photos' folder in My Drive, with year/month folders. You can download this folder or sub-folders manually: right-mouseclick (or 3-dots) > Download.
This folder can be synced with the computer when you download and install the Google Drive app to the computer. In july 2017 the Drive App has been replaced by the new 'Backup & Sync'. You can use the new app for syncing the Google Photos folder with the computer.
Photos uploaded from the computer using 'Backup & Sync' are NOT added to the 'Google Photos' folder.A work-around to download ALL photos from Google Photos may be :
Share your library with the second account. See https://support.google.com/photos/answer/7378858 Archived photos are in account 1 are not shared.
Accept the share in account 2 and select 'Automatically add to library' for all photos
Wait, might be best to leave overnight, until the photos have all been added to the second account
Enable 'Create a Google Photos folder in Drive' in Google Drive Settings
Use Backup and Sync, Google Drive section, to Sync down to your computer. It does not use quota in the recipient account: The help says: 'Any photos you save from a shared library won’t take up storage, unless your partner stops sharing their library with you, or deletes the original copy.'
How to determine if a photo or video is stored in Google Photos or in Google Drive
Go to Google Photos settings (https://photos.google.com/settings)
Under 'Google Drive' select 'Show Google Drive photos & videos in your Photos library' (the selection button will turn blue when selected)
Go to Google Photos (https://photos.google.com)
Click into the search bar (https://photos.google.com/search)
Scroll down and click the first 'Show more' then 'Google Drive' (https://photos.google.com/search/_td_)
You will be shown all the photos from Google Drive which are also visible in Google Photos.
Check your Google Drive quota: https://drive.google.com/drive/quota
ZIP files
After downloading a .zip file using any of the methods above, your browser prompts you to save the .zip file. You can also rename the zip at this time
Click 'Save' and specify a location to download
Unzip the zip file
In Windows Explorer, right click the zip file, click 'Extract All' then 'Extract'
When unzipping is finished, you may delete the zip file (but check before you delete)
How to preserve 'Captions' ('Descriptions' in Google Photos)
In Google Photos 'Captions' are called 'Description' and found in the Info panel (click i)
Captions added in Picasa Web Albums (PW) or Google Photos (GP) are lost when downloading from Google Photos. Captions added before uploading are not lost, but after editing in PWA or GP you get the original caption, not the edited version.
When using Takeout a .json file in the downloaded zip includes the info about the missing caption, but is hard to use. I found these articles online: latest version(s) of EXIFTool seems able to do it in batch: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42024255/bulk-join-json-with-jpg-from-google-takeouthttp://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=8154.0
Captions are added to the photo when you use 'Import from Google Photos' in Picasa3 (under the File menu). Note: Google disabled this option end March 2018.
If you know other ways of downloading pictures and video from Google products, please let us know in the Google Photos Help Community: https://support.google.com/photos/community