I placed my music in dropbox. If I want to listen directly using dropbox, I can listen only to one song at a time I had to select an other song in a folder to listen again. Is there a possibility to listen to more songs or a complete CD?
Did you ever solve this issue? With only playing one song at a time?
There is no solution for this in Dropbox because it's not a media player. Find a media player application that has Dropbox functionality built-in to it.
I can't listen to any music or sound in my dropbox... it keeps showing ERROR 500
My dropbox was full. I deleted a big amount of files. Can I continue to use dropbox and to save other files ?
Which media player application do you recommend. It seems there are lots of problems with the few I just reviewed.
Thanks, Jim
I can't offer a recommendation as I don't use Dropbox to play media.
I can only recommend one player, and I've tried most of them. It's Cloud Player by Double Twist (for Android). It has it flaws too, but it works and looks very nice. It's not free though, but it's a one time cost.
If anyone has a recommendation for a similar player on iOS, I'd be grateful. Most players I've tried are more or less crap.
Hi @jan m.17,
Thank you for reaching out on Community!
The Dropbox app is not designed to be a fully-featured media player, so if you're playing items from a folder of audio files, it will not progress automatically to the next file.
This is a terrible response.
People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence.
Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this.
It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list.
Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back.
My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Thanks,
Greg
Hey @gstout,
Thanks for posting your feature request here and welcome to the Dropbox Community!
Indeed, users' opinions are valued immmensely. Positive or negative, your feedback is extremely valuable as we are always looking for ways to improve. I will personally ensure that your need to create playlists in dropbox is passed along to the team, and I'd like to invite you to continue posting constructive feedback like this here.
Indeed, there is a special section on the Community that is dedicated exactly to this purpose. Please use the "Share an idea" section here (I can see that some already have) to give us similar ideas, we'd love to hear back from you.
Again, I remain at your entire disposal if further asssitance or clarifications are needed.
Hi Greg,
There is another cloud storage solution that is very similar to Dropbox, but it's a much smaller company - pCloud. But this hasn't stopped them to add a music player to their app. Both for mobile and desktop. It's very cool! I really wish Dropbox had been progressive like that.
The ONLY reason I finally chose Dropbox is because the pCloud music feature is bad at reading the metadata of the files. So Cloudplayer + Dropbox works better in that regard. If pCloud would've made the music player better, I'd switch to them instantly.
@gstout wrote: This is a terrible response. People, many, are using dropbox to listen to music. It's a far better solution that iTunes. This dismissive response shows a lack of fundamental marketing intelligence. Your customers want playlists and have been asking for years. They ARE using your app to listen to music. You can pretend or insist they are not, but they are.(My primary reason for getting a paid account was that my LARGE music files made me grow beyond the basic account size. Had I not used you for music and audio I'd still be a free user.) There are other (bad) solutions on the web to create playlists for dropbox because you have refused to. http://www.online-playlist.com Why not embrace your customer feedback and make ANY solution to handle this. It could be as simple as allowing users to make a text file with a specific extension that listed the files names they want in a list. Or if you are feeling fancy, add an option under the multiple file select menu that said: "Play all" and supported a swipe right and left while playing to skip forward and back. My point is STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEY DON"T WANT WHAT THEY WANT and please LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS. Thanks, Greg
I totally agree with Greg. Your reply IS ABSOLUTELY UNEXEPTABLE. please refer us to a solution or recommended app.
Dear Jane,
Your response is dated May and I am still waiting for some sort of constructive response (it is now September.)
Please inform us of the progress being made by the Dropbox team on this issue.
Thank you
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For those that are still interested, I found an iPhone app that I'm using to listen to music with dropbox.
I tried a bunch of them and they were all fairly poor and then I found one that was not bad. It's called MusiCloud
It does everything that I had wished dropbox would do. It lets you make playlists, jump to the previous and next song, store a selection of songs locally so you're not killing your bandwidth. It even attempts to match up your songs with album art from online. It has not ever gotten the correct art for my albums but I almost find it extremely endearing the completely wrong selections that it makes.
Is it perfect, no. Is it free, yes, but the free version had a lot of intrusive ads that irritated me so I paid the 1.99 for the Pro version.
I have no connection to this piece of software and I get no benefit from this post. I simply want to say that there is a solution that will let you listen to music from dropbox and gives you exactly the sort of functionality that dropbox should be providing its users by default.
Yeah Dropbox. Please let us know where you stand on this. Thanks.
Does anybody know if there is an app for Kubuntu (or Ubuntu) that allows playlists using music from the dropbox cloud? I saw something about Clementine, but wondering if there are other options (would love KDE/QT based solution, although GTK would be OK)
Thanks, jetpeach
Hi Jetpeach. I use Ubuntu, and the only player with integrated Dropbox is as you said Clementine. However, I use GMusicbrowser since my Dropbox music is on my hard drive. Therefore, everything I do locally is synced in the cloud. So I can use any music player, edit files and artwork, and everything get synced.
The drawback is of course that you need to keep all your Dropbox content on hard drive, which takes up loads of hd space.
I use CloudBeats music player on iOS and works perfectly for me.
Good suggestion!
For iOS, I swear by Documents6 by Readdle. I really miss it on the Android platform. What those guys have done in terms of reliable off-line sync, and of built-in players and readers - and for free - is truly remarkable.
In fact, it so much makes the Google Drive app look like useless rubbish that I uninstalled it and just use Documents6 on my mobile devices to access Google Drive instead! But I digress :-)
You can't even register on that website. full of errors.
Sometimes **bleep** happens, you know. Looks like this is the case. It worked when I registered, I have my account and use it.
Maybe they had some issues with their hoster. I don't know.
Try now, maybe it works.
Take a look at their Dropbox player demo page - [link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]
Actually it's not a player at all, it's just an HTML page with a list of Dropbox mp3. Just create a Dropbox app, then add its credentials to your account. Then open this player page and it will play all your mp3.
