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.
Hi,
A bit late to the conversation here but wanted to let the community know that I have solved the streaming problem for music on Dropbox.
[link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines]. has been relaunched with the new(ish) Dropbox 2.0 API and features the ability to create playlists, save playlists (back to dropbox) and load them across devices. You can listen to all of your music stored in Dropbox in your own custom playlists - on your phone or on your PC/Laptop.
We are open to your feature suggestions and the service is free.
And no need to download an app - just use Chrome - the UX is responsive.
Happy Streaming!
I downloaded CloudBeats from the iPhone App Store and it works well.
It allows you to login to your iPhone Dropbox App and see folders and songs to add to CloudBeats. Songs go to the Cloud, so don't require storage on your phone, but you do need an internet connection to play them.
The FREE CloudBeats version allows only 20 files (songs) per folder. Then it operates as a real media player: playlist, skip songs, scan ahead in a song, repeat, etc.
To remove 20 file/song limitation you need PRO version for $4.99.
Am happy with this solution!
Just hold down on the audio file and release. It will reappear with an icon play button. Press play and you be rockin' and did I mention rollin?
I'd like to see this feature too please Dropbox
I really support this feature! Also, if there was some sort of Built-In Media Player wich plays video files (such as movies, tv shows, etc...) with support for subtitles, it would be amazing!
I think the streaming feature (Built-In Media Player) on Dropbox would make such a possitive impact on the platform.
Hopefully, they will listen to this requests and do something.
I would absolutely love to see a music player feature as well. More than half the files I store in Dropbox are music, and I have to rely on other apps to play them.
so, no player worth a **bleep** from dropbox... even though they should have money from their hefty storage fees and the shriveled R&D budget... i mean, watt in Good God's Earth is the point for that Home tab, other then to make it harder for newbies to find their files.. It's as annoying as Quick Acces on W10.. useless... if you have folders/files in dropbox or in Windows that are frequently opened, the user can quickly scroll to it, out of habit or use the Search... there was no need to clutter up the tree by putting "home" as the first tab.. beginers don't know why most of their files are not showing from Home, by then, they are too flustered to hit the 2nd Tab; File.. i've seen it over and over at the office, and if i'm stoned enough, i'm catch myself going "where r my GD files.. oh.. yea.. not at Home... stupid Dropbox improvement.. and are you offering encryption yet? can you get with VLC and make something happen, we want to play song after song.. Charge us for it, i mean, that's the way of it's done, no? This should have been obvious to you guys.. we store all our effffn musix on here.. a player(VLC!) should integrate online or inbeded in DB soon.. or i'm taking my **bleep** elsewhere.. good nite and a better tomorrow... ps. Keep Up the Good Work.. i don't feel i've touched on the positives enough but give yourselves a big pat on the back for me.. all you underpaid, understimulated and underestimated soldiers that keep our files where we need them.. Have a Blessed day
slow uploads/downloads since day 1
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It just doesn't make sense for google to produce dropbox and want people to go beyound the free service and not make a simple music play list music player available.
To some this is a very good reason not to pay for a service that does't seem to have the users as the number one priority. Make the sevice useable in evey way and continue to make it user frendly and the customer base will grow.
Now it seems like you are limiting what you want the service to do and don't care what the users want. Not good business.
Dale
Frustrated Dropbox users, welcome to check out BoxStream, and Android app for playing music from your Dropbox account: [link to external website removed according to our Community Guidelines].
Sadly, DropBox does not implement the necessary functionality to make this painless. The "make available offline" functionality is the only way how to get a whole directory or directory structure stored on the Android device, but the files which are synced that way cannot be discovered by the usual music apps because they are stored only in the app directory and in a way that is not usable. Syncing with the Android device should allow to store directories in dedicated media folders and also on an SD storage device, if present, but DropBox does not provide this. This is extremely basic and something everyone would expect from a Cloud storage solution, yet DropBox has failed for a long time now to provide this and continues to respond with "solutions" which are just absurd, like exporting every single file individually, without any option of actual syncing. Very disappointed by this.
I listen to music on my dropbox app all the time. Please add a feature to swipe to the next or previous file!
hello dopboxers
I'm thinking about a pro account because I would like to acces to all my music database, on the ios mobile app it's ok to play one file but is there a way to play a folder content or at least several files ?
Thanks
Is the music player going to become more usable at some point. I would just like to have a bar to slide forward to get to the end of the song when i am looking for a certain spot. Really hoping you update the music player. I love dropbox otherwise and am slowly cleaning up my various systems and getting all the music files in just one place online. Thank you. But updating the player so i am not stuck using itunes would be a blessing. Detest itunes and how controlling it is. I need to be able to easily change file titles and and have control of what folders they go into and this has been the perfect solution. A multi-functional player would make if perfect.
I have the paid version of MediaMonkey on my Windows system and it reads from Dropbox as if they are on my computer and works great. But on my iMac it sorta works with itunes and i finally got the made a duplicate in itues setting turned off. But really hoping there is a solution for Mac. I updated my IOS to the latest update and utterly hate the new version of itunes and so wish there was something else i could be using on Mac.
I may have just found a solution that works for me. Just hunted the app store and downloaded a simple free version of Music Player lite. There is a paid version but i am able to click and drag and make a temporary playlist and then just hit the delete button to get rid of them and was still able to make a file name change while it was playing. Simple but when i need to play a few songs or hear something this may just cover my needs. Not sure what else it can do with the paid version but this was all i was wanting, to have a simple playlist when needed, don't want to save them just have more flexibility.
How do you make MediaMonkey read media files from Dropbox? (I never heard of MediaMonkey)
I wholeheartedly agree. Dropbox needs to make offline files available or findable via other apps than Dropbox! Why are my files (backed up in Dropbox) in my PC visible via the Files Explorer, and the same files in my Mac visible via that Mac's explorer, but those SAME files are available offline in my phone only through the Dropbox app? This is what is blocking my Music Player apps from accessing and handling my music files offline in my phone.
This is a widely held need. How can we, the paying Dropbox customers (and the free ones too!), use Music Players in our android phones to play our Dropbox folders that are meant to be "available offline"?
+1
Android Dropbox app needs to make offline files available to other apps to scan. I don't want to use some special app to stream from Dropbox. I want to download files while on WiFi then play with any basic player. This shouldn't be difficult.
I know, it's a bit late reply
Anyway, there is a way. Now, you can be the owner of your personal music streaming service!!! Or your personal "Audible" for your audiobooks. I've created an Alexa skill ("Sound Stream") that allows you play your audio files from your personal Dropbox account on any Amazon Echo device.
Available on Amazon for US, UK, CA, AU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NDD6TWZ
Just in case anyone revisits this thread.
On PC I use StreamBoxr to play my music stored in DropBox
For my Android phone, I'm using BoxStream.
There's also CloudStream and others.
I'm using the free version of BoxStream at the moment
I've been using VLC for Android to solve this and it works great.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlcThe file has to be downloaded to the device in Dropbox, but it integrates with Dropbox directly. After installing it, click on the file in Dropbox, and select the VLC app to play the file.Specifically, this supports playing *in the background*, which some other apps don't support.
5 years on ....I was at least hoping for a very very basic playlist feature by now to be honest. Another reason for doing this is customers who deal with audio for a living can then use Dropbox for work. I've just come from a community discussion with Sync artists, many of whom want to use Dropbox, but have to turn to other services because of a lack of a basic playlist feature.
