Problems with dropbox MP3 hotlinks for billyplayer? -- Le Solution
okay - so for those of you who use billyplayer for your blogs, you may have tried to use dropbox hotlinking without success... i certainly did the first time i tried. so i wrote a tutorial using kiwi6 instead of dropbox as a host - HOWEVER - apparently kiwi6 can be temperamental when it comes to playing from those links. so - here’s how to fix those pesky hotlinks on dropbox...
make your account and upload your mp3 files as usual -
click on the ‘share’ link and get the url -
e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ha72q1c839xaj3e/playlist.MP3?dl=0
now if you try to use this in billyplayer you’ll get an error - all you need to do is edit the link just a little...
delete the first part of your link up to /s/ and replace it with this;
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/
you also need to delete the end so the url ends with ‘MP3′.
e.g.
original link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ha72q1c839xaj3e/playlist.MP3?dl=0
altered link - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ha72q1c839xaj3e/playlist.MP3
test this by pasting your new link into your browser - you should get a single audio player and your song should play ( click on the altered link to see what you should get ) - if it’s playing, then your hotlink is good to go - so just head on over to billyplayer and throw it into there!