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Listen to music via dropbox
I placed my music in dropbox. If I want to listen directly using dropbox, I can listen only to one song at a time I had to select an other song in a folder to listen again. Is there a possibility to listen to more songs or a complete CD?
Did you ever solve this issue? With only playing one song at a time?
There is no solution for this in Dropbox because it's not a media player. Find a media player application that has Dropbox functionality built-in to it.
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- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi people; thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this.
I know this is not much, but I found some related ideas you might find interesting.
In that case, you could all up-vote the ones you like and would like to see implemented or integrated with our services:- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Skip-play-next-audio-files-from-folder/idi-p/349576
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Add-repeat-button-for-audio-files-in-the-mobile-app/idi-p/153700
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Listening-to-audio-rewind-button-and-bookmark/idi-p/255248
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Music-Application-for-smart-devices/idi-p/434257
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Syncing-With-Online-Music-Apps-Deezer-Spotify-etc/idi-p/435438
See you around the Community and thanks for the feedback!
These ideas are not related and are not interesting. Just let us access the shared folder from other apps of our choosing. That's it. No need for streaming, or implementing playback, or integration with some other services.
You know what I do right now? I connect my phone via USB cable to my PC, manually copy the musing files I want, then play them using the app of my choice. Why can't I do exact same thing by making a folder available offline in Dropbox? That's really all I want, super simple.
For desktop try https://www.expandrive.com/desktop/ to turn any cloud directory into a network drive aim any media player at the new drive letter.
For phone, cloudbeats stream from dropbox onto your phone tablet Android and IOS.
- Actually, you can listen the music from Dropbox now with this Alexa skill:
https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Activity-Ltd-Sound-Stream/dp/B08NDD6TWZ
You can create multiple playlists and share them across all your Echo devices.
You may found this quick tutorial helpful:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gfLWlKQmwM The workaround I found is to load your music library to Amazon Music. Then Alexia will play on your devices like your car or phone.
Also pCloud (Music Player) plays HiRes music files without first having to âmake available offline!â If Dropbox could introduce something similar (a music player), WOW that would be supreme!
This thread is like going to McDonald's and asking them to fix your car.
There's just no good options for making a mix for someone these days. Dropbox clearly has some advanced player technology built in, like the gallery and video player are both amazing.
The "Solution" for this doesn't work. There's no music integrated service that makes it easy to make a mix and share it with someone without that person also going through a complicated install process.
For an "experienced collaborator" that little gem was woefully unspecific and did not advance the argument by one iota. If you have something cogent to share, please give us the benefit of that vaunted "experience", or else hold your peace. Quips like that one are singularly unhelpful.
- Why is that, exactly? In addition to sharing raw files, Dropbox already has a built-in audio player, a built-in image viewer, a built-in documents viewer and a built-in video player. In addition to viewing images individually it has the capability to create an entire image gallery from a folder of images - it is not a huge jump to assume a folder of audio could be played sequentially in the existing audio player. After all, thatâs essentially what a playlist is.
Applied to your scenario McDonalds is already selling all the car parts and advertising that it does vehicle repairs, so itâs not a silly or unreasonable request to say âyou have all the parts available and we know you will change a brake-pad, so why wonât you change a tyre as well?â
Also, Iâd generally expect a more helpful, and perhaps more adult response from an âExperienced Collaboratorâ. There may very well be technical challenges that mean this feature is not possible, and it would have been fine to relay those, but your response was facile, rude, dismissive and added zero context. As a developer looking in from the outside this should be relatively easy to implement and is therefore reasonable to request.
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