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jan m.17
Helpful | Level 6
10 years ago
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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?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    9 years ago

    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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  • gravelld's avatar
    gravelld
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 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
    2 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
    2 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
    1 year 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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