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