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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 ...
Does the small files kept on the disk when it's set to online only have some kind of attributes that these file size programs are mistakenly thinking that the files are on the disk?
Look at the Properties window for one of the files and check the Size on disk attribute. This is the true size of the file on your local drive. For example, here's a 679 MB Zip file showing that it takes up 0 bytes on the disk.
Likewise, here's the properties of the entire Test folder, where the Zip file is located, showing that the folder is 691 MB but only takes up 11 MB on the disk.
If these values don't match what you're seeing in the third-party programs, then they may not be looking at the Size on disk attribute for the files.
kitty
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi
The Dropbox app is not designed to be a fully-featured media player, so if you're playing items from a folder of audio files, it will not progress automatically to the next file.
I have the paid version of MediaMonkey on my Windows system and it reads from Dropbox as if they are on my computer and works great. But on my iMac it sorta works with itunes and i finally got the made a duplicate in itues setting turned off. But really hoping there is a solution for Mac. I updated my IOS to the latest update and utterly hate the new version of itunes and so wish there was something else i could be using on Mac.
I may have just found a solution that works for me. Just hunted the app store and downloaded a simple free version of Music Player lite. There is a paid version but i am able to click and drag and make a temporary playlist and then just hit the delete button to get rid of them and was still able to make a file name change while it was playing. Simple but when i need to play a few songs or hear something this may just cover my needs. Not sure what else it can do with the paid version but this was all i was wanting, to have a simple playlist when needed, don't want to save them just have more flexibility.
How do you make MediaMonkey read media files from Dropbox? (I never heard of MediaMonkey)
