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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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For those that are still interested, I found an iPhone app that I'm using to listen to music with dropbox.
I tried a bunch of them and they were all fairly poor and then I found one that was not bad. It's called MusiCloud
It does everything that I had wished dropbox would do. It lets you make playlists, jump to the previous and next song, store a selection of songs locally so you're not killing your bandwidth. It even attempts to match up your songs with album art from online. It has not ever gotten the correct art for my albums but I almost find it extremely endearing the completely wrong selections that it makes.
Is it perfect, no. Is it free, yes, but the free version had a lot of intrusive ads that irritated me so I paid the 1.99 for the Pro version.
I have no connection to this piece of software and I get no benefit from this post. I simply want to say that there is a solution that will let you listen to music from dropbox and gives you exactly the sort of functionality that dropbox should be providing its users by default.
- Dropbox,
Greg makes a completely rational point. I would love to read your answers to his questions? I've privately emailed you guys regarding this exact issue. I'm sure that sooner or later someone will develop exactly what we (paying customers) are desiring. And if Dropbox waits too long, it may be another company. To me that seems downright silly to not listen to your paying customers. - I use this app as well however the exporting of files from DB to Music Cloud is a little tedious. It would be so much better if DB would allow us to play music in our folders with the next file playing automatically after one file ends.
- Jane, has any improvement been made for playing music in Dropbox?
Yeah Dropbox. Please let us know where you stand on this. Thanks.
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Does anybody know if there is an app for Kubuntu (or Ubuntu) that allows playlists using music from the dropbox cloud? I saw something about Clementine, but wondering if there are other options (would love KDE/QT based solution, although GTK would be OK)
Thanks, jetpeach
Hi Jetpeach. I use Ubuntu, and the only player with integrated Dropbox is as you said Clementine. However, I use GMusicbrowser since my Dropbox music is on my hard drive. Therefore, everything I do locally is synced in the cloud. So I can use any music player, edit files and artwork, and everything get synced.
The drawback is of course that you need to keep all your Dropbox content on hard drive, which takes up loads of hd space.
I use CloudBeats music player on iOS and works perfectly for me.
Good suggestion!
For iOS, I swear by Documents6 by Readdle. I really miss it on the Android platform. What those guys have done in terms of reliable off-line sync, and of built-in players and readers - and for free - is truly remarkable.
In fact, it so much makes the Google Drive app look like useless rubbish that I uninstalled it and just use Documents6 on my mobile devices to access Google Drive instead! But I digress :-)
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