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jan m.17
10 years agoHelpful | Level 6
What is the best way to utilize Dropbox when listening to music?
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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- lOurs6 years agoNew member | Level 2
hello dopboxers
I'm thinking about a pro account because I would like to acces to all my music database, on the ios mobile app it's ok to play one file but is there a way to play a folder content or at least several files ?
Thanks
- Jane6 years ago
Dropbox Staff
Hey lOurs, it looks like you’d like to play items from a folder of audio files, so it would be worth noting that it will not progress automatically to the next file as you’re listening to your .mp3s.From there, kindly note that this isn't currently an available Dropbox feature, however I appreciate the time you took to drop us a line detailing us your interest! I’ve moved your comment to under the relevant thread, just to add your voice to the feedback we’re gathering, since you could upvote 🗳️ this feature implementation here to show your support.Thanks & please let me know here in case you have any additional questions or thoughts! - Songbirdflying5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Is the music player going to become more usable at some point. I would just like to have a bar to slide forward to get to the end of the song when i am looking for a certain spot. Really hoping you update the music player. I love dropbox otherwise and am slowly cleaning up my various systems and getting all the music files in just one place online. Thank you. But updating the player so i am not stuck using itunes would be a blessing. Detest itunes and how controlling it is. I need to be able to easily change file titles and and have control of what folders they go into and this has been the perfect solution. A multi-functional player would make if perfect.
- Songbirdflying5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I have the paid version of MediaMonkey on my Windows system and it reads from Dropbox as if they are on my computer and works great. But on my iMac it sorta works with itunes and i finally got the made a duplicate in itues setting turned off. But really hoping there is a solution for Mac. I updated my IOS to the latest update and utterly hate the new version of itunes and so wish there was something else i could be using on Mac.
- Songbirdflying5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I may have just found a solution that works for me. Just hunted the app store and downloaded a simple free version of Music Player lite. There is a paid version but i am able to click and drag and make a temporary playlist and then just hit the delete button to get rid of them and was still able to make a file name change while it was playing. Simple but when i need to play a few songs or hear something this may just cover my needs. Not sure what else it can do with the paid version but this was all i was wanting, to have a simple playlist when needed, don't want to save them just have more flexibility.
- RuiPT5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
How do you make MediaMonkey read media files from Dropbox? (I never heard of MediaMonkey)
- lsucre5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I wholeheartedly agree. Dropbox needs to make offline files available or findable via other apps than Dropbox! Why are my files (backed up in Dropbox) in my PC visible via the Files Explorer, and the same files in my Mac visible via that Mac's explorer, but those SAME files are available offline in my phone only through the Dropbox app? This is what is blocking my Music Player apps from accessing and handling my music files offline in my phone.
This is a widely held need. How can we, the paying Dropbox customers (and the free ones too!), use Music Players in our android phones to play our Dropbox folders that are meant to be "available offline"?
- Liltank075 years agoNew member | Level 2Plzcani
- likho1eye5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
+1
Android Dropbox app needs to make offline files available to other apps to scan. I don't want to use some special app to stream from Dropbox. I want to download files while on WiFi then play with any basic player. This shouldn't be difficult.
- Songbirdflying5 years agoExplorer | Level 4Can’t recommend an app??! Pfft no dislike button. If there is an app with Dropbox functionality would be nice to know. Seriously Dropbox is amazing. BUT a small simple not fancy media player would be amazing. Come on people .. you can be more amazing, I know you can. I do like the quick look but to do a small even 20 song player can’t be that challenging to add give the player the ability to make a playlist.you can do it!!
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