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espringer
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
embedded audio links *suddenly* stopped working
Hello all, I often embed dropbox-shared audio files (as well as other files) on my educational websites for students (copying the link, swapping in raw=1 instead of dl=0 at end, and inserting into su...
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
5 years agoHey peeps, could you also make sure that you don't have any third party browser extensions/plugins running?
espringer
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Lusil,
Just as suddenly and unpredictably as this issue started, the problem seems to have evaporated as of today. I'm feeling cautious, but relieved.
(The working of these embedded audio links never did seem to depend on any browser or browser-extension situation, nor have I done anything on my end that could account for the improvement. At any rate, for web-hosting purposes, it's not possible to micro-manage the browsers of visitors. All we can expect is reasonably up-to-date and stable configurations.)
Lusil, I don't know whether something changed at the dropbox end, but if you had any role in nudging someone in any way to restore something, many thanks!
(As far as educational content-management systems go, I actually use a website that's independent of any institutional CMS, but in the past I have used moodle, Although moodle generally allows us to upload multimedia files, which can be then played within some kind of frame, I have found CMS systems too clunky and constraining in various ways. For that reason I have designed my own interactive websites for most teaching purposes, and rely heavily on dropbox to be the backend for embedded images, pdfs, and audio.)
-ESpringer
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