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Forum Discussion
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.
I can't listen to any music or sound in my dropbox... it keeps showing ERROR 500
My dropbox was full. I deleted a big amount of files. Can I continue to use dropbox and to save other files ?
Did you ever solve this issue? With only playing one song at a time?
- Cloudbeats 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 local5 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.
- Rich
Super User II
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.
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
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Hey
- I would love to see a feature that would allow me to play a whole directory of MP3. Whether that is understanding an M3U file or advancing to next audio file in a directory.
I wouldn't want Dropbox to aspire to be a music player but basic playback is just a handy feature.
Similarly, while Dropbox is not a photo library application, it can advance to next picture in a directory.Take a look at their Dropbox player demo page - [link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]
Actually it's not a player at all, it's just an HTML page with a list of Dropbox mp3. Just create a Dropbox app, then add its credentials to your account. Then open this player page and it will play all your mp3.
The workaround I found is to load your music library to Amazon Music. Then Alexia will play on your devices like your car or phone.
Which media player application do you recommend. It seems there are lots of problems with the few I just reviewed.
Thanks, Jim
I can only recommend one player, and I've tried most of them. It's Cloud Player by Double Twist (for Android). It has it flaws too, but it works and looks very nice. It's not free though, but it's a one time cost.
If anyone has a recommendation for a similar player on iOS, I'd be grateful. Most players I've tried are more or less crap.
Good suggestion!
For iOS, I swear by Documents6 by Readdle. I really miss it on the Android platform. What those guys have done in terms of reliable off-line sync, and of built-in players and readers - and for free - is truly remarkable.
In fact, it so much makes the Google Drive app look like useless rubbish that I uninstalled it and just use Documents6 on my mobile devices to access Google Drive instead! But I digress :-)
- Rich
I can't offer a recommendation as I don't use Dropbox to play media.
- Can’t recommend an app??! Pfft no dislike button. If there is an app with Dropbox functionality would be nice to know. Seriously Dropbox is amazing. BUT a small simple not fancy media player would be amazing. Come on people .. you can be more amazing, I know you can. I do like the quick look but to do a small even 20 song player can’t be that challenging to add give the player the ability to make a playlist.you can do it!!
kittyHi
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.
- Try down loading airbeats, I it's associated with drop box that should do ya
Hi,
A bit late to the conversation here but wanted to let the community know that I have solved the streaming problem for music on Dropbox.
[link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]. has been relaunched with the new(ish) Dropbox 2.0 API and features the ability to create playlists, save playlists (back to dropbox) and load them across devices. You can listen to all of your music stored in Dropbox in your own custom playlists - on your phone or on your PC/Laptop.
We are open to your feature suggestions and the service is free.
And no need to download an app - just use Chrome - the UX is responsive.
Happy Streaming!
I downloaded CloudBeats from the iPhone App Store and it works well.
It allows you to login to your iPhone Dropbox App and see folders and songs to add to CloudBeats. Songs go to the Cloud, so don't require storage on your phone, but you do need an internet connection to play them.
The FREE CloudBeats version allows only 20 files (songs) per folder. Then it operates as a real media player: playlist, skip songs, scan ahead in a song, repeat, etc.
To remove 20 file/song limitation you need PRO version for $4.99.
Am happy with this solution!
