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jan m.17
10 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Listen to music via dropbox
I placed my music in dropbox. If I want to listen directly using dropbox, I can listen only to one song at a time I had to select an other song in a folder to listen again. Is there a possibility to listen to more songs or a complete CD?
Did you ever solve this issue? With only playing one song at a time?
There is no solution for this in Dropbox because it's not a media player. Find a media player application that has Dropbox functionality built-in to it.
- tvc1881New member | Level 2
Just hold down on the audio file and release. It will reappear with an icon play button. Press play and you be rockin' and did I mention rollin?
- Matt H.37New member | Level 2
I'd like to see this feature too please Dropbox
- RuiPTExplorer | Level 4
I really support this feature! Also, if there was some sort of Built-In Media Player wich plays video files (such as movies, tv shows, etc...) with support for subtitles, it would be amazing!
I think the streaming feature (Built-In Media Player) on Dropbox would make such a possitive impact on the platform.
Hopefully, they will listen to this requests and do something.
- vladzExplorer | Level 4
I would absolutely love to see a music player feature as well. More than half the files I store in Dropbox are music, and I have to rely on other apps to play them.
- charliesainiNew member | Level 2
so, no player worth a **bleep** from dropbox... even though they should have money from their hefty storage fees and the shriveled R&D budget... i mean, watt in Good God's Earth is the point for that Home tab, other then to make it harder for newbies to find their files.. It's as annoying as Quick Acces on W10.. useless... if you have folders/files in dropbox or in Windows that are frequently opened, the user can quickly scroll to it, out of habit or use the Search... there was no need to clutter up the tree by putting "home" as the first tab.. beginers don't know why most of their files are not showing from Home, by then, they are too flustered to hit the 2nd Tab; File.. i've seen it over and over at the office, and if i'm stoned enough, i'm catch myself going "where r my GD files.. oh.. yea.. not at Home... stupid Dropbox improvement.. and are you offering encryption yet? can you get with VLC and make something happen, we want to play song after song.. Charge us for it, i mean, that's the way of it's done, no? This should have been obvious to you guys.. we store all our effffn musix on here.. a player(VLC!) should integrate online or inbeded in DB soon.. or i'm taking my **bleep** elsewhere.. good nite and a better tomorrow... ps. Keep Up the Good Work.. i don't feel i've touched on the positives enough but give yourselves a big pat on the back for me.. all you underpaid, understimulated and underestimated soldiers that keep our files where we need them.. Have a Blessed day
slow uploads/downloads since day 1
- essa1-New member | Level 2
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- liafailExplorer | Level 4
It just doesn't make sense for google to produce dropbox and want people to go beyound the free service and not make a simple music play list music player available.
To some this is a very good reason not to pay for a service that does't seem to have the users as the number one priority. Make the sevice useable in evey way and continue to make it user frendly and the customer base will grow.
Now it seems like you are limiting what you want the service to do and don't care what the users want. Not good business.
Dale
- Yan M.New member | Level 2
Frustrated Dropbox users, welcome to check out BoxStream, and Android app for playing music from your Dropbox account: [link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines].
- JoPeHelpful | Level 6
Sadly, DropBox does not implement the necessary functionality to make this painless. The "make available offline" functionality is the only way how to get a whole directory or directory structure stored on the Android device, but the files which are synced that way cannot be discovered by the usual music apps because they are stored only in the app directory and in a way that is not usable.
Syncing with the Android device should allow to store directories in dedicated media folders and also on an SD storage device, if present, but DropBox does not provide this.
This is extremely basic and something everyone would expect from a Cloud storage solution, yet DropBox has failed for a long time now to provide this and continues to respond with "solutions" which are just absurd, like exporting every single file individually, without any option of actual syncing.
Very disappointed by this. - LandeplageNew member | Level 2
I listen to music on my dropbox app all the time. Please add a feature to swipe to the next or previous file!
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