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Tinlinmusic
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

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...
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SR SLS
Explorer | Level 3
1 year ago
I haven’t tested this with longer audio files uploaded myself, I’ve only uploaded shorter audio files but haven’t ran into this issue with those in the past.
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Jay
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1 year ago

Hi SR SLS, what is the exact codec you are using for the audio, and the bitrate (kbps) and sample rate (MHz)?

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