Playing audio while using another app on mobile devices

Wow!! Awesome news!! Finally after years! Thank you Dropbox <3

This is great news and a really great improvement! 

Hi JayJayPayDay​!

I'm happy to announce that we have rolled out background audio to all of our users now.

Thank you for helping deliver this idea and please reach out further if you have any more feedback!

Yes - this gets my vote as it is the feature I would like the most

I have an android and i think all of us would like to play music on dropbox while locking our phone or doing something else on our phone.

The possibility to listen to music with screen off on android phones as well as while other apps are open, and the ability to make the music player cycle through songs in folders and even shuffle songs in folders within a folder would be a nice addition to the application. This way artists who back up their music to this platform can stream and don't have to download to their phones if the resources or phones music player has issues with the files.

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JoPe wrote:

Why can the app not behave like a proper media player which will continue playing and show playback controls even on the locks screen?

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Because it's not a media player? The ability to play a media file is meant as a way to preview the file. If a media player is what you need, there are far better options available, some of which can link to your Dropbox account, such as CloudPlayer.

This is something I find extremely annoying: it is possible to play video or audio files directly from Dropbox storage (which is good), using the Android Dropbox app, but as soon as the screen locks up or another app goes to the foreground, playback stops. Why can the app not behave like a proper media player which will continue playing and show playback controls even on the locks screen?