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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.
hello dopboxers
I'm thinking about a pro account because I would like to acces to all my music database, on the ios mobile app it's ok to play one file but is there a way to play a folder content or at least several files ?
Thanks
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
- Plzcani
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Android Dropbox app needs to make offline files available to other apps to scan. I don't want to use some special app to stream from Dropbox. I want to download files while on WiFi then play with any basic player. This shouldn't be difficult.
- android and cloudbeats syncs to folder looks an sounds good even in car use software to make dropbox a drive on desktop
I know, it's a bit late reply :wink:
Anyway, there is a way. Now, you can be the owner of your personal music streaming service!!! Or your personal "Audible" for your audiobooks. I've created an Alexa skill ("Sound Stream") that allows you play your audio files from your personal Dropbox account on any Amazon Echo device.
Available on Amazon for US, UK, CA, AU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NDD6TWZ
This thread is like going to McDonald's and asking them to fix your car.
For an "experienced collaborator" that little gem was woefully unspecific and did not advance the argument by one iota. If you have something cogent to share, please give us the benefit of that vaunted "experience", or else hold your peace. Quips like that one are singularly unhelpful.
- Why is that, exactly? In addition to sharing raw files, Dropbox already has a built-in audio player, a built-in image viewer, a built-in documents viewer and a built-in video player. In addition to viewing images individually it has the capability to create an entire image gallery from a folder of images - it is not a huge jump to assume a folder of audio could be played sequentially in the existing audio player. After all, that’s essentially what a playlist is.
Applied to your scenario McDonalds is already selling all the car parts and advertising that it does vehicle repairs, so it’s not a silly or unreasonable request to say ‘you have all the parts available and we know you will change a brake-pad, so why won’t you change a tyre as well?’
Also, I’d generally expect a more helpful, and perhaps more adult response from an ‘Experienced Collaborator’. There may very well be technical challenges that mean this feature is not possible, and it would have been fine to relay those, but your response was facile, rude, dismissive and added zero context. As a developer looking in from the outside this should be relatively easy to implement and is therefore reasonable to request.
It doesn't appear that Dropbox has created this feature yet, but it also appears I'm not the only one who's been interested in playing multiple audio files in a folder continuously such as Box. I'm definitely interested in this feature as I use Dropbox to store all my production sessions with bounced audio files. It'd be great to give clients and friends a series of music (such as an album or playlist) with the functionality of an audio player to skip to next track...pause, fast forward, etc. I know that's probably a HUGE feature to develop, but it seems like a really solid one for professional music makers, audio lovers, etc. that dig Dropbox and pay for the platform. Thanks for consider!!!
- Actually, you can play your own audio and video from Dropbox with these Alexa skills: Sound Stream and My Video:
www.amazon.com/dp/B095K38Q2K
www.amazon.com/Voice-Activity-Ltd-Sound-Stream/dp/B08NDD6TWZ
You will need Echo Dot (playing audio only) or Echo Show (playing audio or video).
I don't know if this is what everyone else is looking for, but.... I've been searching for an iOS player that could basically import my WinAmp MP3 music library stored in a Dropbox folder, and scan MP3 tags as well (so music can be sorted into genres, albums, etc).
Every app I've tried -- dozens -- will generally let you download or otherwise import your Dropbox MP3 files, but it dumps them all in one big folder sorted alphabetically by title (filename). That's totally not helpful.
FINALLY found one that correctly scans all the MP3 tags and sorts correctly into a library: CloudBeats for iOS (thanks to a previous poster in this thread). It autoplays the next song, too. Hope this helps someone.
I use Cloudbeat for my iPhone it plays my Dropbox folders and in the car also via car play.
Not sure if it's helpful but I wrote a free online tool that allows you to browse your Dropbox and play, skip, shuffle, repeat, view album art etc: https://asti.ga/dropbox-music-player
No install necessary!
Let me know how it can be improved.
Disclaimer: this is a free tool hosted on my commercial music streaming service's website. The free tool is gratis though.
- Found one ‘CloudBeats’ €9,99
