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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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- +1 for CloudBeats
- Try down loading airbeats, I it's associated with drop box that should do ya
You can't even register on that website. full of errors.
- I would love to see a feature that would allow me to play a whole directory of MP3. Whether that is understanding an M3U file or advancing to next audio file in a directory.
I wouldn't want Dropbox to aspire to be a music player but basic playback is just a handy feature.
Similarly, while Dropbox is not a photo library application, it can advance to next picture in a directory. Sometimes **bleep** happens, you know. Looks like this is the case. It worked when I registered, I have my account and use it.
Maybe they had some issues with their hoster. I don't know.
Try now, maybe it works.
Take a look at their Dropbox player demo page - [link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]
Actually it's not a player at all, it's just an HTML page with a list of Dropbox mp3. Just create a Dropbox app, then add its credentials to your account. Then open this player page and it will play all your mp3.
- Thank you, gstout! It wortht it!
- so well put man! I feel exactly the same
Hi,
A bit late to the conversation here but wanted to let the community know that I have solved the streaming problem for music on Dropbox.
[link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]. has been relaunched with the new(ish) Dropbox 2.0 API and features the ability to create playlists, save playlists (back to dropbox) and load them across devices. You can listen to all of your music stored in Dropbox in your own custom playlists - on your phone or on your PC/Laptop.
We are open to your feature suggestions and the service is free.
And no need to download an app - just use Chrome - the UX is responsive.
Happy Streaming!
I downloaded CloudBeats from the iPhone App Store and it works well.
It allows you to login to your iPhone Dropbox App and see folders and songs to add to CloudBeats. Songs go to the Cloud, so don't require storage on your phone, but you do need an internet connection to play them.
The FREE CloudBeats version allows only 20 files (songs) per folder. Then it operates as a real media player: playlist, skip songs, scan ahead in a song, repeat, etc.
To remove 20 file/song limitation you need PRO version for $4.99.
Am happy with this solution!
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