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niania
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

Can't play music when I minimize the Dropbox app on Android

Hello. When I minimize the app while playing music on android it stops playing. I've tried to add a new player and open my files in external apps but nothing works. My whole music team uses dropbox a...
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Mark
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8 months ago
niania wrote:
Do you think it would be possible to fix this problem? Thank you so much

There isnt anything to fix I'm afraid. This is by design. 

Simply put Dropbox isnt designed as a music player. It does it to help people access single files for work etc. on the go, not, listen to music - hence the 20gb bandwidth limits apply to streaming via mobile devices. 

 

The only work arounds I can think of are to use third party applications. 

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