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AFrench
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago
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Newly made embedded mp3s won't play, they are grayed out.

I have a website where I share recordings of my piano playing with family/friends.  I use blogspot to link to the audio files that are in a public folder on Dropbox.  I have used the same html for 12...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    8 months ago

    Hi AFrench, change dl=0 to dl=1 forces the file in the shared link to automatically download to that person's machine.

    There is also the option to change it from dl=1 to raw=1 for the file to actually preview on the Dropbox site.

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AFrench
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

so the problem was that the file was just not downloading?

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    Jay
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    8 months ago

    Yes, that is possibly the issue that you experienced with those files.

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    8 months ago
    AFrench wrote:

    What is that parameter and why did it change?

    Its worth remembering that Dropbox isnt a hosting platform. They have often done changes to the way things are shared via links to stop people hosting. The changes to links is something that has happened before, and almost certainly will happen again. 

    I'd strongly suggest trying to look at a proper hosting platform if you want to keep things up and running. 

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