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Incorrect duration of some streamed audio files.
Hello, I have a problem with some audio files. To be able to read them correctly on an audio player (in my case on android) you have to be able to determine the duration. for some files the duratio...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for following up. I can't offer any details on the implementation of the Dropbox Android app itself, but I'll follow up with any updates on the reports you linked to.
Greg-DBDropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorUpdate: in order to temporarily accommodate clients that don’t properly support automatically handling “Transfer-Encoding: chunked”, we’re temporarily rolling back this change, so that these links will no longer use “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” and will instead return “Content-Length” on HTTP/1.1. We will begin rolling that out starting around 2/17. That will be in place until around 3/1. At that point, we will begin using “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” and no longer returning “Content-Length” on HTTP/1.1 again.
Going forward, please ensure that your clients are able to automatically handle both chunked encoding and non-chunked encoding automatically.
Thanks Greg-DB for the follow up.
But there will therefore be a problem with Android because at this stage, I don't see how it is possible to force the client integrated into the mediaPlayer to handle both chunked encoding and non-chunked encoding automatically, it is not accessible, or so by a method that I do not know.
It is possible to partially circumvent the duration problem by calculating with file size and bitrate (for MP3 files with CBR) but not to circumvent the ability to seek .
Is there a way to get feedback from the developers of the DropBox app for android?
- Greg-DB
Thanks for the additional context. I cannot provide support for third party clients unfortunately though, so please refer to the documentation/support resources for the client.
Also, no, I can't offer a way to get help from the developers of the official Dropbox Android app itself.
Apologies I can't be of more help in that regard!
- Greg-DB
Update: the team has been able to complete some further updates to our infrastructure to be able to support the previous non-chunked behavior going forward indefinitely. That means that we plan to continue returning Content-Length (and not 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked') in the future and will not be reverting this as previously planned. (Regardless, for HTTP compatibility in general, we still recommend you make sure your HTTP clients support both types.) Hope this helps!
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