I looked at a million posts here on stack and nothing seems clear cut on my issue. I created a storage bucket in Firebase with 15 mp3 files in it.

But I’m getting access denied for attempting to access this area.

My rules for my bucket look like this :

When I attempt to go to my default bucket on the web, it looks like this…

I attempted to add a cors.json file on the web app, within Google Cloud like so, and ran the command to process it in the terminal :

I also attempted to modify my firebase.json file for hosting settings to allow .mp3’s like so:

   {
      "source": "**/*.@(mp3)",
      "headers": [ {
        "key": "Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
        "value": "*"
      }]
    }

I also gave a quick look on Google Cloud, for my bucket detail permissions page, but don’t know what the heck to do here, if it would save my life.

Why is all this rocket science to simply have my default storage bucket be public? Or is there something I am missing in my setup for it to be public?

Many thanks for helping me reduce my frustration…