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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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kroft
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6 years ago

FWIW, I haven't been able to reproduce the problem using uncompressed audio (AIFF or WAV). So that might be a workaround, but I don't want to be uploading huge files. Or has anyone had the problem when the file uploaded is in an uncompressed format?

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Tinlinmusic
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

I initally noticed the problem when using mp3s, but the same thing occurred when I tried a 16bit WAV file. However, it seems to be ok if you 'make available offline' i.e. download it to your device.  Though this kind of defeats the object of having a Dropbox folder.

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