Spotify has (had? I no longer use it) a feature that would allow you to make local media available as part of your library anywhere so long as your machine was on and connected to the internet. I would imagine that feature requires disk access under these sandbox / permission models.
Edit: I should say, the model it was created with (select a folder, all media in that folder is mirrored) requires such permissions. One could imagine designs that don’t.
moecables · · focus · HN ↗
- Ghostty (fine, it's my terminal)
- Alfred (fine, I use it for searching everywhere)
Then I have a few turned off:
- Spotify (why does it need full disk access) ??
- Gemini (nope, don't need it to know everything about my computer)
king_geedorah · · focus · HN ↗
Edit: I should say, the model it was created with (select a folder, all media in that folder is mirrored) requires such permissions. One could imagine designs that don’t.
crooked-v · · focus · HN ↗
The gap here in functionality is between 'single manually specified folder/file' and 'entire disk'.
Hobadee · · focus · HN ↗
Still does, at least on Windows. I use it all the time - I have a playlist with a mix of Spotify music, and music from my server.