MP3 tags with dropbox links

In the past, I've been able to post MP3 clips via URLs here to open a Flash player in the body of the post. The syntax looks like:

{MP3]{URL]http://www.abc.com/blah.mp3[/URL}[/MP3}

(the curly parentheses are just there to fool the BB engine into showing the code.)

However, I cannot make this work when the link points to a Dropbox file. The file can either be in the Public folder or elsewhere, it does not matter. I can post the links as URLs and they work fine, open another browser tab and playing merrily away via Quicktime or HTML5.

Is there something funky with Dropbox in this regard? What am I missing?

Dropbox is just not able to be used this way. It is a cloud storage site and has built in protections for that kind of use... especially with MP3 files.

By the way, your syntax on the link looks incorrect I think you mean:

http://www.abc.com/blah.mp3

No is needed.

Also, you can use bbcode "noparse" to show bbcode without parsing it. I can't show you because I'm using it here on my message to show you the code above.

But it works like all bbcode. So an example is:

{noparse} some URL {/noparse}.

Everything between the two noparse tags will not parse and that can be an entire long message if you wish.

Also, if you use the "advanced editor" (not the quick reply editor) there is an option below the message box to check to not process bbcode in the message.

Dropbox is just not able to be used this way. It is a cloud storage site and has built in protections for that kind of use... especially with MP3 files.

By the way, your syntax on the link looks incorrect I think you mean:

http://www.abc.com/blah.mp3

No is needed.

Also, you can use bbcode "noparse" to show bbcode without parsing it. I can't show you because I'm using it here on my message to show you the code above.

But it works like all bbcode. So an example is:

{noparse} some URL {/noparse}.

Everything between the two noparse tags will not parse and that can be an entire long message if you wish.

Also, if you use the "advanced editor" (not the quick reply editor) there is an option below the message box to check to not process bbcode in the message.

Thanks! I just learned quite a lot. Oh well, too bad about Dropbox, it's otherwise really convenient.

BTW, the only reason I added the [url] tag in my post is because I observe that when the MP3 tag is used and one goes back to edit the post, the [url] tags have been automagically added.