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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 ...
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.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIDid 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.
This is a terrible response.
People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence.
- Your customers want playlists and have been asking for years.
- They ARE using your app to listen to music. You can pretend or insist they are not, but they are.
(My primary reason for getting a paid account was that my LARGE music files made me grow beyond the basic account size. Had I not used you for music and audio I'd still be a free user.) - There are other (bad) solutions on the web to create playlists for dropbox because you have refused to. http://www.online-playlist.com
Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this.
It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list.
Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back.
My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Thanks,
Greg
gstout wrote:
This is a terrible response.
People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence.
- Your customers want playlists and have been asking for years.
- They ARE using your app to listen to music. You can pretend or insist they are not, but they are.
(My primary reason for getting a paid account was that my LARGE music files made me grow beyond the basic account size. Had I not used you for music and audio I'd still be a free user.) - There are other (bad) solutions on the web to create playlists for dropbox because you have refused to. http://www.online-playlist.com
Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this.
It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list.
Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back.
My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Thanks,
Greg
I totally agree with Greg. Your reply IS ABSOLUTELY UNEXEPTABLE. please refer us to a solution or recommended app.
For those that are still interested, I found an iPhone app that I'm using to listen to music with dropbox.
I tried a bunch of them and they were all fairly poor and then I found one that was not bad. It's called MusiCloud
It does everything that I had wished dropbox would do. It lets you make playlists, jump to the previous and next song, store a selection of songs locally so you're not killing your bandwidth. It even attempts to match up your songs with album art from online. It has not ever gotten the correct art for my albums but I almost find it extremely endearing the completely wrong selections that it makes.
Is it perfect, no. Is it free, yes, but the free version had a lot of intrusive ads that irritated me so I paid the 1.99 for the Pro version.
I have no connection to this piece of software and I get no benefit from this post. I simply want to say that there is a solution that will let you listen to music from dropbox and gives you exactly the sort of functionality that dropbox should be providing its users by default.
- I use this app as well however the exporting of files from DB to Music Cloud is a little tedious. It would be so much better if DB would allow us to play music in our folders with the next file playing automatically after one file ends.
Hi Greg,
There is another cloud storage solution that is very similar to Dropbox, but it's a much smaller company - pCloud. But this hasn't stopped them to add a music player to their app. Both for mobile and desktop. It's very cool! I really wish Dropbox had been progressive like that.
The ONLY reason I finally chose Dropbox is because the pCloud music feature is bad at reading the metadata of the files. So Cloudplayer + Dropbox works better in that regard. If pCloud would've made the music player better, I'd switch to them instantly.
Also pCloud (Music Player) plays HiRes music files without first having to ‘make available offline!’ If Dropbox could introduce something similar (a music player), WOW that would be supreme!
- Dropbox,
Greg makes a completely rational point. I would love to read your answers to his questions? I've privately emailed you guys regarding this exact issue. I'm sure that sooner or later someone will develop exactly what we (paying customers) are desiring. And if Dropbox waits too long, it may be another company. To me that seems downright silly to not listen to your paying customers. - Jane
Dropbox Staff
Hey
Dear Jane,
Your response is dated May and I am still waiting for some sort of constructive response (it is now September.)
Please inform us of the progress being made by the Dropbox team on this issue.
Thank you
16 giga
- Jane, has any improvement been made for playing music in Dropbox?
Yeah Dropbox. Please let us know where you stand on this. Thanks.
- so well put man! I feel exactly the same
Is the music player going to become more usable at some point. I would just like to have a bar to slide forward to get to the end of the song when i am looking for a certain spot. Really hoping you update the music player. I love dropbox otherwise and am slowly cleaning up my various systems and getting all the music files in just one place online. Thank you. But updating the player so i am not stuck using itunes would be a blessing. Detest itunes and how controlling it is. I need to be able to easily change file titles and and have control of what folders they go into and this has been the perfect solution. A multi-functional player would make if perfect.
I wholeheartedly agree. Dropbox needs to make offline files available or findable via other apps than Dropbox! Why are my files (backed up in Dropbox) in my PC visible via the Files Explorer, and the same files in my Mac visible via that Mac's explorer, but those SAME files are available offline in my phone only through the Dropbox app? This is what is blocking my Music Player apps from accessing and handling my music files offline in my phone.
This is a widely held need. How can we, the paying Dropbox customers (and the free ones too!), use Music Players in our android phones to play our Dropbox folders that are meant to be "available offline"?
- I copy and paste from Greg as he put it best!
This is a terrible response.
People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence.
Your customers want playlists and have been asking for years.
They ARE using your app to listen to music. You can pretend or insist they are not, but they are.
(My primary reason for getting a paid account was that my LARGE music files made me grow beyond the basic account size. Had I not used you for music and audio I'd still be a free user.)
There are other (bad) solutions on the web to create playlists for dropbox because you have refused to. http://www.online-playlist.com
Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this.
It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list.
Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back.
My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Thanks,
GraemeJust in case anyone revisits this thread.
On PC I use StreamBoxr to play my music stored in DropBox
For my Android phone, I'm using BoxStream.
There's also CloudStream and others.
I'm using the free version of BoxStream at the moment
I've been using VLC for Android to solve this and it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
The file has to be downloaded to the device in Dropbox, but it integrates with Dropbox directly. After installing it, click on the file in Dropbox, and select the VLC app to play the file.
Specifically, this supports playing *in the background*, which some other apps don't support.
I wholeheartedly agree. I may leave Dropbox (which is not the cheapest annual cloud storage, by the way) because of the lack of this feature. I don't want to spend time discovering another company I trust to give access to a bunch of my data. I already trust Dropbox, but not being able to simply login to the Dropbox app to play music seems to signal "we don't care about what you really want from your cloud storage."
