Dropbox integration

Selected Credits streams audio directly from your Dropbox without uploading anything to our servers.

How the connection works

When you connect Dropbox in Account settings, Selected Credits gets read-only access to your account. Then, when you click Add from Dropbox in your Library, the Dropbox Chooser lets you pick the audio files you want. We store a permanent file ID for each one — not the file itself.

• The audio file stays in your Dropbox. We don't copy it.
• We only act on the files you pick in the Chooser.
• Each play, we ask Dropbox for a short-lived streaming link and hand it to the player.

What we store

For each Dropbox track: the file ID, the file name and duration, anything you add in Selected Credits (title, description, etc.), and a waveform preview.

The waveform is generated once at import inside your browser — your computer briefly downloads the file to draw the preview, then discards it. Nothing audio is ever uploaded to us.

What playback looks like

The visitor's browser streams audio directly from Dropbox's servers. Selected Credits is just the player UI; the bandwidth is Dropbox's.

Renaming and moving files is safe

Selected Credits tracks files by their internal Dropbox file ID, not by name or path. Renaming or moving a file in Dropbox won't break anything — Selected Credits follows it.

Ways your Dropbox links can break

Anything that removes the file or revokes our access will break the link:

• Deleting the file (including letting it expire in Dropbox trash).
• Disconnecting Selected Credits from your Dropbox account — either here in Account settings, or by revoking from dropbox.com. This invalidates every track at once.
• Closing or downgrading your Dropbox account in a way that removes the file.

When a link breaks, only that track is affected — the rest of the portfolio still works. To fix, re-add the track from the Chooser.