Listen to music via dropbox

[jan m.17]

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?

[lsucre]

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"?

[Liltank07]

Plzcani

[likho1eye]

+1

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.

[Songbirdflying]

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!!

[Rtipping2001]

android and cloudbeats syncs to folder looks an sounds good even in car use software to make dropbox a drive on desktop

[PG_VoiceFirst]

I know, it's a bit late reply

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

[Grae Matter]

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,
Graeme

[J0hnTS]

Just 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

[lchengify]

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.

[Rtipping2001]

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 local