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Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#11

Post by tedmiston » Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 8:19 PM UTC

Hi,

App looks really cool. I'm loading some music up in Dropbox to try it.

But first, I see music coming up that I don't believe I have anywhere -- John Lennon, Bob Marley, etc. It's not in my iTunes library or Dropbox. What's going on?

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#12

Post by ing33k » Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

works great.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#13

Post by maz29 » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

kingnight wrote: post #10

What is a typical situation for someone storing music in Dropbox/Mega/Google Drive? What is used to play the music on the Desktop. Looking forward to trying this out though. I currently use iTunes Match but really enjoy Dropbox for photos. If this is as robust as it looks, and I could find a filesystem based music player that works as nicely as iTunes, then it'd be under consideration for longterm use

There are a lot of different use cases. For me personally i upload audio files that arent available on streaming services suchs as Spotify or rdio. Then i am able to stream/download them in the app. To play the songs on my laptop/desktop i just set the Dropbox/Drive folder as a music folder with Spotify.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#14

Post by maz29 » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #11

Hi, App looks really cool. I'm loading some music up in Dropbox to try it. But first, I see music coming up that I don't believe I have anywhere -- John Lennon, Bob Marley, etc. It's not in my iTunes library or Dropbox. What's going on?

Hey first thanks so much for downloading the app. I really appreciate it! If the app is importing music that you didn't know you had then those songs must be in a hidden/obscure folder. Either that or some songs aren't tagged incorrectly. The app tries to read id3 tags for every song. If they are set incorrectly, then that could be your issue.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#15

Post by maz29 » Sat, Jul 12, 2014, 3:33 PM UTC

ing33k wrote: post #12

works great.

Thanks so much for downloading! There is a feedback feature where you can make requests suggestions.

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#16

Post by spacec0wb0y » Sun, Jul 13, 2014, 8:49 PM UTC

Very nice app. Lovely interface and easy to use. I think this will replace the app I've previously used. I would request a feature to browse music by folder structure as is in dropbox. I use dropbox/drive to store song collections, but not strictly albums.

Also I was looking for a nice app to browse dlna/mpd library on my network and something that works like this would be perfect. Although I acknowledge that would bring your project off in a totally different direction!

Good work and thanks for the special free offer!

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#17

Post by sergiomiranda » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 12:05 PM UTC

Great app! I sent you a feature request in-app about adding another cloud service, hope you got it and consider it! Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Music Player for Dropbox, Mega, and Google Drive

#18

Post by farhanpatel » Wed, Jul 16, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

Any plans of adding S3 support. Would be great for uploading a larger library. This paired with something like ArqBackup could auto upload your library to S3.