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Tinlinmusic
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6 years ago

When previewing audio files on Dropbox, the playback skips or drops out. Any ideas?

Hello, just wondered if any other music tech-y people have had any trouble with glitchy audio files when using Dropbox to share them? A track that I have mixed and bounced down on my studio pc, whic...
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6 years ago

When playing a file on the Dropbox website, you're not playing the original. You're getting a transcoded preview of the original file. To hear the file in its original file as intended, it needs to be downloaded to your computer and opened in a supported application.

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Tinlinmusic
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6 years ago
Thanks for the reply. I guess that makes sense. Could the glitches on the audio file be caused by a flaky internet signal?

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