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 people; thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this. I know this is not much, but I found some related ideas you might find interesting. In that case, you could all up-vote the ones you like and would like to see implemented or integrated with our services:
See you around the Community and thanks for the feedback!
These ideas are not related and are not interesting. Just let us access the shared folder from other apps of our choosing. That's it. No need for streaming, or implementing playback, or integration with some other services.
You know what I do right now? I connect my phone via USB cable to my PC, manually copy the musing files I want, then play them using the app of my choice. Why can't I do exact same thing by making a folder available offline in Dropbox? That's really all I want, super simple.
For desktop try https://www.expandrive.com/desktop/ to turn any cloud directory into a network drive aim any media player at the new drive letter.
For phone, cloudbeats stream from dropbox onto your phone tablet Android and IOS.
The workaround I found is to load your music library to Amazon Music. Then Alexia will play on your devices like your car or phone.
Also pCloud (Music Player) plays HiRes music files without first having to ‘make available offline!’ If Dropbox could introduce something similar (a music player), WOW that would be supreme!
This thread is like going to McDonald's and asking them to fix your car.
There's just no good options for making a mix for someone these days. Dropbox clearly has some advanced player technology built in, like the gallery and video player are both amazing.
The "Solution" for this doesn't work. There's no music integrated service that makes it easy to make a mix and share it with someone without that person also going through a complicated install process.
For an "experienced collaborator" that little gem was woefully unspecific and did not advance the argument by one iota. If you have something cogent to share, please give us the benefit of that vaunted "experience", or else hold your peace. Quips like that one are singularly unhelpful.
It doesn't appear that Dropbox has created this feature yet, but it also appears I'm not the only one who's been interested in playing multiple audio files in a folder continuously such as Box. I'm definitely interested in this feature as I use Dropbox to store all my production sessions with bounced audio files. It'd be great to give clients and friends a series of music (such as an album or playlist) with the functionality of an audio player to skip to next track...pause, fast forward, etc. I know that's probably a HUGE feature to develop, but it seems like a really solid one for professional music makers, audio lovers, etc. that dig Dropbox and pay for the platform. Thanks for consider!!!
I don't know if this is what everyone else is looking for, but.... I've been searching for an iOS player that could basically import my WinAmp MP3 music library stored in a Dropbox folder, and scan MP3 tags as well (so music can be sorted into genres, albums, etc).
Every app I've tried -- dozens -- will generally let you download or otherwise import your Dropbox MP3 files, but it dumps them all in one big folder sorted alphabetically by title (filename). That's totally not helpful.
FINALLY found one that correctly scans all the MP3 tags and sorts correctly into a library: CloudBeats for iOS (thanks to a previous poster in this thread). It autoplays the next song, too. Hope this helps someone.
I use Cloudbeat for my iPhone it plays my Dropbox folders and in the car also via car play.
Not sure if it's helpful but I wrote a free online tool that allows you to browse your Dropbox and play, skip, shuffle, repeat, view album art etc: https://asti.ga/dropbox-music-player
No install necessary!
Let me know how it can be improved.
Disclaimer: this is a free tool hosted on my commercial music streaming service's website. The free tool is gratis though.
THANK YOU! Man, this is hard to get a solid answer to a legit question. Cloud Beats seems to do the trick
I wholeheartedly agree. I may leave Dropbox (which is not the cheapest annual cloud storage, by the way) because of the lack of this feature. I don't want to spend time discovering another company I trust to give access to a bunch of my data. I already trust Dropbox, but not being able to simply login to the Dropbox app to play music seems to signal "we don't care about what you really want from your cloud storage."
