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The existing dropbox music apps are terrible, you have to select songs one by one instead of streaming entire directories. Thank you. Going to download…",{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},"3244647","This is my new iPhone app. Been working on it for ages now. I've always wanted a cloud music service I could just drag files into, and I realized Dropbox would be the perfect…",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"iPhone users with music stored in Dropbox","inferred",[63,64],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"3245090","checker","I have a friend working on CloudAround for Android. They support a variety of cloud file hosting platforms. TuneBox is iOS though, so I will definitely be checking this app out…",{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Wanted a cloud music service you could drag files into, using Dropbox as the platform","maker",[72],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":77,"objections":100,"requests":138,"questions":161,"alternatives":173},[78,93],{"value":79,"source":50,"evidence":80},"Clean, useful app that works well with Dropbox",[81,85,89],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"3245123","gurgeous","I participated in the beta. This is a nice app, well done. Dropbox and music - two great tastes that taste great together.",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"3244803","zach","I actually don't think so. For one thing, this argument is true of Dropbox itself, and are music files really that special? For many people, the simplicity and convenience is…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"3245364","Derbasti","Awesome app! I really like it! My wishlist: I would like to download some albums for offline use and I would like to have the app index more than 1000 songs. But don't take these…",{"value":94,"source":50,"evidence":95},"Dropbox Linux client makes it usable on Linux",[96],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"3246775","farslan","That's great especially for Linux users. I'm looking for a long time to an all-in-one solution for my music. With Tunebox I'm now able to upload, organize all my music within my…",[101,115,128],{"value":102,"source":50,"evidence":103},"Dropbox storage is expensive for large music libraries",[104,108,111],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"3244755","run4yourlives","This is a good app, but Dropbox would be very expensive as a cloud platform. Wouldn't it make more sense to use Amazon or something cheaper?",{"id":109,"by":106,"text":110},"3244835","Music files are special: they're relatively big. I've found Dropbox works really well for documents and such, but if you're talking 100GB music collections, that's a lot of cash.…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"3244817","timerickson","And $99 yearly. iTunes Match is only $25 yearly, it's not billed monthly. Furthermore, iTunes Match limits at 25,000 songs. At 256kbps, thats roughly 175GB.",{"value":116,"source":50,"evidence":117},"Offline caching is limited to recently played songs",[118,121,124],{"id":119,"by":11,"text":120},"3244751","Yes - kinda. Recent songs are cached as they play, and library info is maintained locally. So if you know you've listened to a song you should be able to go back and play it…",{"id":122,"by":11,"text":123},"3245359","I totally agree, it just didn't make sense to build all the offline stuff into v1. Obviously I'm just getting started on this, but I'd prefer not to have a switch, but just to do…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"3248027","roc","I get that you gotta ship sometime :) Looks great though, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it. Though I would urge you to reconsider the switch. There are plenty of times…",{"value":129,"source":50,"evidence":130},"Metadata and organization are often wrong for some libraries",[131,135],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"3245640","sjaakkkkk","Very nice app, have been looking for this for some time as I wasn't pleased with dropbox only playing one song. However, the app doesn't recognize the names etc of most of my…",{"id":136,"by":133,"text":137},"3245762","Sent you some pics. I have some pretty badly tagged music so it's partly my fault, however Spotify did recognize some things that your app didn't. Still, really good app that…",[139,146,157],{"value":140,"source":50,"evidence":141},"Android version",[142],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"3245251","trun","This is fantastic! I've been hoping for something like this for quite some time. Any plans for an android version? I'm also curious - how does it fetch metadata for songs? It…",{"value":147,"source":50,"evidence":148},"Better offline download and caching control",[149,152,156],{"id":150,"by":126,"text":151},"3245161","Does \"shuffle\" intelligently shuffle through cached songs while offline? That'd be handy. And is there an \"offline\" toggle in the app, or would you have to put the device in…",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"3245914","sidwyn","Can I save them for offline playback? 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