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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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- android and cloudbeats syncs to folder looks an sounds good even in car use software to make dropbox a drive on desktop
I know, it's a bit late reply :wink:
Anyway, there is a way. Now, you can be the owner of your personal music streaming service!!! Or your personal "Audible" for your audiobooks. I've created an Alexa skill ("Sound Stream") that allows you play your audio files from your personal Dropbox account on any Amazon Echo device.
Available on Amazon for US, UK, CA, AU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NDD6TWZ
- I copy and paste from Greg as he put it best!
This is a terrible response.
People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence.
Your customers want playlists and have been asking for years.
They ARE using your app to listen to music. You can pretend or insist they are not, but they are.
(My primary reason for getting a paid account was that my LARGE music files made me grow beyond the basic account size. Had I not used you for music and audio I'd still be a free user.)
There are other (bad) solutions on the web to create playlists for dropbox because you have refused to. http://www.online-playlist.com
Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this.
It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list.
Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back.
My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Thanks,
Graeme Just in case anyone revisits this thread.
On PC I use StreamBoxr to play my music stored in DropBox
For my Android phone, I'm using BoxStream.
There's also CloudStream and others.
I'm using the free version of BoxStream at the moment
I've been using VLC for Android to solve this and it works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
The file has to be downloaded to the device in Dropbox, but it integrates with Dropbox directly. After installing it, click on the file in Dropbox, and select the VLC app to play the file.
Specifically, this supports playing *in the background*, which some other apps don't support.- Cloudbeats for iPhone or android
For desktop there is software that will stream from cloud treating Dropbox cloud as drive expanadrive I think it's called cheap and useful for more than just streaming music also keeps me from having to store Dropbox local 5 years on ....
I was at least hoping for a very very basic playlist feature by now to be honest.
Another reason for doing this is customers who deal with audio for a living can then use Dropbox for work. I've just come from a community discussion with Sync artists, many of whom want to use Dropbox, but have to turn to other services because of a lack of a basic playlist feature.- 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.
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