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espringer
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

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...
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espringer
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

aaumann, have you checked to see whether your embedded audio links for students are functioning properly again? 

 

(I admit I haven't tried playing any embedded-link file all the way through; since my audio iframes weren't even rendering well enough to hit "play" last week, I'm now delighted that they render and seem to work for the first 30 seconds.)

 

-espringer

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aaumann
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

espringer, I have been working with the Dropbox customer service for the past few days and the problem appears to be fixed. Here is what they said to me in their last e-mail: 

"We had another similar report of this recently and our engineering team has made some changes that may resolve what you're seeing here."

 

I haven't had any complaints recently and it appears to be working on my end. I hope it is fixed for you too!

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