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jan m.17
Helpful | Level 6
11 years ago
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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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  • seattlesurpher's avatar
    seattlesurpher
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    It doesn't appear that Dropbox has created this feature yet, but it also appears I'm not the only one who's been interested in playing multiple audio files in a folder continuously such as Box. I'm definitely interested in this feature as I use Dropbox to store all my production sessions with bounced audio files. It'd be great to give clients and friends a series of music (such as an album or playlist) with the functionality of an audio player to skip to next track...pause, fast forward, etc. I know that's probably a HUGE feature to develop, but it seems like a really solid one for professional music makers, audio lovers, etc. that dig Dropbox and pay for the platform. Thanks for consider!!!

  • FoulFoot's avatar
    FoulFoot
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    I don't know if this is what everyone else is looking for, but....  I've been searching for an iOS player that could basically import my WinAmp MP3 music library stored in a Dropbox folder, and scan MP3 tags as well (so music can be sorted into genres, albums, etc).

     

    Every app I've tried -- dozens -- will generally let you download or otherwise import your Dropbox MP3 files, but it dumps them all in one big folder sorted alphabetically by title (filename).  That's totally not helpful.

     

    FINALLY found one that correctly scans all the MP3 tags and sorts correctly into a library: CloudBeats for iOS (thanks to a previous poster in this thread).  It autoplays the next song, too.  Hope this helps someone.

  • Rtipping2001's avatar
    Rtipping2001
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    I use Cloudbeat for my iPhone it plays my Dropbox folders and in the car also via car play.

  • gravelld's avatar
    gravelld
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago

    Not sure if it's helpful but I wrote a free online tool that allows you to browse your Dropbox and play, skip, shuffle, repeat, view album art etc: https://asti.ga/dropbox-music-player

     

    No install necessary!

     

    Let me know how it can be improved.

     

    Disclaimer: this is a free tool hosted on my commercial music streaming service's website. The free tool is gratis though.

  • Gizmofo's avatar
    Gizmofo
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    THANK YOU! Man, this is hard to get a solid answer to a legit question. Cloud Beats seems to do the trick

  • Grae Matter's avatar
    Grae Matter
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago
    “there is no solution” is the solution? Seems like Dropbox could easily create a simple media player that works in the Dropbox app. I’ve been using db for years now and love for everything about it except that it won’t play multiple files.
    Come on Dropbox, read the room!
  • hbmm's avatar
    hbmm
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    I wholeheartedly agree.  I may leave Dropbox (which is not the cheapest annual cloud storage, by the way) because of the lack of this feature.  I don't want to spend time discovering another company I trust to give access to a bunch of my data.  I already trust Dropbox, but not being able to simply login to the Dropbox app to play music seems to signal "we don't care about what you really want from your cloud storage."

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