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When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
Hello, just wondered if any other music tech-y people have had any trouble with glitchy audio files when using Dropbox to share them? A track that I have mixed and bounced down on my studio pc, whic...12KViews2likes74CommentsRe: When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
Woo I got a badge, shame they can't spend more time and resources on fixing the audio glitch problem. I have actually stopped using Dropbox for sending mp3s and wavs as it's so unreliable.1.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
Hi Daphne, In my experience I first noticed the problem around 3 weeks ago on mp3 files which played fine on the computer used to create them, but as soon as the file was copied to the Dropbox fo...1.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
I initally noticed the problem when using mp3s, but the same thing occurred when I tried a 16bit WAV file. However, it seems to be ok if you 'make available offline' i.e. download it to your device. ...2.1KViews1like25CommentsRe: When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
So it would appear to be a Dropbox fault, which is good news for my studio pc which was about to get launched out of the window! I have tried making the file 'available offline' on my iphone and it ...4.5KViews0likes30CommentsRe: When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?
Well I'm glad it's not just me having problems with this (but obviously sorry that you are too!). I have tried re-exporting the same track several times, but when I copy it to Dropbox the glitches ke...4.7KViews0likes33Comments