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The amount of music in my feed and the trouble of curating it all. I found new songs I loved every day, but being a programmer, and having to switch to the SC
by legohead 9y ago
The amount of music in my feed and the trouble of curating it all. I found new songs I loved every day, but being a programmer, and having to switch to the SC browser window/tab to hit shift-right-arrow to skip a song, or space to pause it, became too troublesome.
I eventually switched to Spotify, since I could have global keyboard shortcuts for the app. If SoundCloud had a desktop app I would use that instead of Spotify in a heartbeat (assuming I could play my own music as well).
- cyphunk 9y agoI use this desktop app, opensource and cross platform, constantly https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app
- legohead 9y agoI was aware of that, but if a company fails to understand it's users' needs, I don't have much faith in them, so I just move on to something else.
- brodock 9y agoNot to mention that the limitation in the API usage made the soundnode app useless, as it hits the API limit in a few hours of use. They are failing not to provide an alternative and to prevent you from using an alternative.
- cyphunk 9y agoIs the API dependent on popularity of songs you listen to? Because I find I dont hit limit until a whole day of use (4 to 6 hours) but guessing this could be because I don't have much popular music in my queue. I ask because I notice that now they introduced advertisements but these also only come up on songs with over 60k plays
- snthd 9y agohttp://www.streamkeys.com http://www.streamkeys.com is a chrome extension that gives global hotkeys for many streaming media sites (including SC). I wish there was a firefox port.