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Please allow audio from Dropbox to be played/listened to while using another app please, and thank you. Allow audio to be used in the background.
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- Graham
Community Manager
Thanks for posting this idea here on the Dropbox Community. I've just moved it here to this thread as both ideas seem to be the same. This one is currently being investigated. don't forget to give the original a vote to give it another boost!
Thanks again, and have a great day!
Graham
- I got the Samsung S23,I tried the music player in Dropbox for the first time today.Dropbox won’t play music while I’m in other apps or lock the phone.What is the solution for this?
It is now only possible to select 1 music track to listen to. I would like to see that many music tracks can be selected for play at the same time.In the cloud service MEGA you can set whether or not you want to allow the music player to continue in the situations mentioned.That would also be a desirable situation for Dropbox. - Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Status changed:OpentoUnder Consideration As I also shared that idea, I'll leave this here:
Make dropbox musician friendly
Dear dropbox community,
I switched from iphone to android. And for years I'm using dropbox with my band mates.
But we now are thinking about switching, because we cannot review our audiofiles and demos anymore, when we switch to other apps or turn off the display.
Its such a tiny little thing, but creates a big unnecessary issue for me.
Also for years I wished I could skip through my audio files. It would also be much savier while driving! (And I know my bandmates. They still use their phone while driving when a new demo lands in the box!)
Please help us and make dropbox musician friendly ♡- let us play audio files in the background (saver for drivers)
- let us skip some tracks that are in the same folder
- Cannot run Dropbox media in the background. For example if we play some Audio from Dropbox and switch to another App or press Home, the audio stops playing
Besides making the audio be playable in the background, also make the audio files play in consecutive order, like a playlist. (Or allow a button/slider for this) So you can listen while driving/working etc.
I don't understand why can't we play audio in the background on Android. Hopefully this feature will be added soon. iOS has it, so should Droid.
- I suggest the ability to play audio from dropbox, in the background on android. As i very frequently listen to my own music on there.
I have wanted this change for years! Shouldnt be too hard to implement. Much appreciated - As a musician and a music producer, I paid for Dropbox primarily to be able to review audio on my phone in different listening environments (car, home stereo system, etc) with clients. But it appears that there is no possibility to have audio playing in the background, which literally every other media player app I use on Android does as a default. If there is no plan to either develop this for Android or enable Dropbox to utilize other apps (VLC) to play audio in background then I have wasted my money and will no longer be using Dropbox, nor recommending it for use to other producers.
- Just like other audio players
