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Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service by zach on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @03:00PM (#3244803)
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 worth it. Plus if you have some extra space in your Dropbox (yes, there are some of us) this gives you a good use for it.

Very slick. I like it. Dropbox should promote this app.

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Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service by run4yourlives on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @03:06PM (#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. Yes, this is a Dropbox issue, not an app issue. I think the app is really neat.

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Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service by callil on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @11:39PM (#3246416)
I think it's great for those of us who want to switch out music really fast without syncing or anything from any computer. Also solves some space issues like me filling up 8gb and needing only about 4 more...
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Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service by lloeki on Thursday November 17, 2011 @05:15AM (#3247135)
> Music files are special: they're relatively big.

Dropbox supports delta sync (a la rsync), which means a change to music metadata translates to only a few bytes being transferred instead of the whole file. This is a killer.

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