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Aristide
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4 years ago

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...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Update: 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.

Aristide's avatar
Aristide
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

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's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    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!

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