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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 ...
- 9 years ago
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.
Jim K.23
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
Did you ever solve this issue? With only playing one song at a time?
- Rtipping20014 years agoExplorer | Level 4Cloudbeats for iPhone or android
For desktop there is software that will stream from cloud treating Dropbox cloud as drive expanadrive I think it's called cheap and useful for more than just streaming music also keeps me from having to store Dropbox local- Neil W.64 years agoHelpful | Level 6
5 years on ....
I was at least hoping for a very very basic playlist feature by now to be honest.
Another reason for doing this is customers who deal with audio for a living can then use Dropbox for work. I've just come from a community discussion with Sync artists, many of whom want to use Dropbox, but have to turn to other services because of a lack of a basic playlist feature.- Walter4 years agoDropbox Staff
Hi people; thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this.
I know this is not much, but I found some related ideas you might find interesting.
In that case, you could all up-vote the ones you like and would like to see implemented or integrated with our services:- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Skip-play-next-audio-files-from-folder/idi-p/349576
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Add-repeat-button-for-audio-files-in-the-mobile-app/idi-p/153700
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Listening-to-audio-rewind-button-and-bookmark/idi-p/255248
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Music-Application-for-smart-devices/idi-p/434257
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Syncing-With-Online-Music-Apps-Deezer-Spotify-etc/idi-p/435438
See you around the Community and thanks for the feedback!
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