Hi There. Just saw this thread. To recap as I understand it:
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Right now, if you include a dropbox audio link in discourse, it will try to “onebox” it–so it will try to convert the link into an audio player you can play in the discourse post itself.
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But, dropbox doesn’t allow remote playing. So, users will just see an audio player that won’t actually play. You could try appending
?d1=1to the end of the link to enable the audio player to play, but this actually doesn’t work either in most browsers (it doesn’t work in my update chrome, for example). -
The alternative is to have people upload the file directly–but that could get expensive as audio files can get large, or use something other than dropbox.
The original question in the first post here still seems valid to me–if the one-boxing “won’t work”, then it would be nice to turn off the oneboxing for the link, so users can get the most straightforward result–a link that allows them to access the actual file on dropbox.
Users probably won’t understand steps 1-3 I just laid out. They will just assume a dropbox link will either (1) play automatically or (2) take you to the dropbox site where it will play. So it would be nice to just give them the link to click on to go dropbox to view the file, if the file won’t play.