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Tinlinmusic
6 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
dabu2012
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
I have the same problem.
File is a 6 Minute long song
16bit/44.1k .wav file
Using website dropbox
Safari 13.1
Mac OS 10.14.6
Audio file has dropout when playing back from Dropbox website and IOS App. IOS and dropbox app are up to date. Obvioulsy my computer is not up to date... cause you know if it aint broke with audio, don't touch anything!
My clients were listening to the file from IOS as well. We all heard the audio drop out in the exact same spot.
Download song and it plays fine. So for me it seems like a playback problem from Dropbox servers.
dabu2012
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Ticket# 10714597
- bassdude0076 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Hi Daphne, no, I didn't get a ticket number because no one came back to chat, they had me on hold and I run out of time. The same audio issue is still happening! I'm having clients download zip files to get around it...
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