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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.
bassdude007
6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Ditto for me!!!
- Daphne6 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for joining us here dabu2012!
I've just passed along your comments to your ticket you mentioned. I can see that you received a reply from my colleague there, can you please check your inbox for that email and reply there?
Through our Support channel we'll be able to have a better look into this with you alongside some account specific info.
bassdude007, since you didn't get a ticket number can you please submit a new ticket from here. Then if you can let me know that ticket number I can follow up with you there.
Let me know!
- bassdude0076 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Daphne wrote:Thanks for joining us here dabu2012!
I've just passed along your comments to your ticket you mentioned. I can see that you received a reply from my colleague there, can you please check your inbox for that email and reply there?
Through our Support channel we'll be able to have a better look into this with you alongside some account specific info.
bassdude007, since you didn't get a ticket number can you please submit a new ticket from here. Then if you can let me know that ticket number I can follow up with you there.
Let me know!
Hi, it seems that we are going around in circles here... It's really quite simple and I'll fill out a ticket as well but here is what the issue is. When we upload an audiofile, it plays back within dropbox with audio glitches: skips, dropouts etc. When we take the file out of dropbox and play it directly from our computers: No Problem. *If someone @ dropbox would just take the time to do this, it would be very clear to them. I know others have submitted tickets over the last few weeks so if you need redundancy, fine, I'll play along but we also need a resolution or we will have to use another service very soon because in our line of work, I can't have this issue for weeks on end. thanks
- Daphne6 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
If you can just let me know the ticket number if you submit one bassdude007, I can follow up with you there.
As I mentioned, this will allow us to continue looking into this as there's not much more I can do from here in terms of troubleshooting since this is a public forum.
Thanks!
- kroft6 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I've been informed that this is now fixed -- I've tried a few files that had dropouts before and they have indeed gone.
- SECRETSOUND6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I got the same message but haven't tried it. Good to know. Thx!
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