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SoundCloud without the stupid CSS files

75 points by paulosman 14y ago

paulosman 14y ago
Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stockholm-13/hacks/soundcloud2000 https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...
walls 14y ago
Nice to finally have something going the other direction; The recent SoundCloud redesign is a usability nightmare. > SoundCloud: Mind if we keep playing music after this song with no indicator of how to stop it or setting to prevent it from happening? Too bad!
- ddfreyne 14y ago
  I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?
  - drkmtr999 14y ago
    He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?
    - ddfreyne 14y ago
      I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.
      - mpyne 14y ago
        But was the OP talking about that? It sounded like he was complaining that music continued to play from somewhere after the one song was linked to finished.
  - walls 14y ago
    Yes, that would be expected if I selected a playlist. Unfortunately, if I link you directly to a single song, and you click play, SoundCloud decides you came wanting to hear music for as long as the tab is open. All of this ignores the fact there's no way (that I've found, and no, I'm not signing up) to disable 'automatic playlist' behavior. Worse than that, there's no obvious way to just STOP the second track without navigating away. Hell, the only indicator that a second song is even playing, other than my seething rage, is the 50px wide audio visualization tucked away in the top bar.
- lzh-ng 14y ago
  I had the same issue until I discovered you can pause playback with spacebar. I agree that the lack of an indication for pause/play is a serious oversight. That being said I prefer the new design over the old.
  - hipsters_unite 14y ago
    Agreed, the new design is better but the autoplay feature is frankly baffling - doubly so when you consider the lack of curation/low quality/irrelevance of 'related' tracks.
achompas 14y ago
Excited to use this, but I don't have installation instructions...
- grobie 14y ago
  Cool :) Please have a look at the README (https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000#installation https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000#installation). And keep in mind that this is a hack version and still in alpha status. We'll add more features during the next days, including the ability to listen to something else than the hardcoded track list of Four Tet.
  - achompas 14y ago
    Awesome! Thanks for adding instructions. You could do much worse than a hardcoded Four Tet tracklist, but I'm looking forward to listening to other stuff. :)
jack7890 14y ago
Reminiscent of something we made for SeatGeek: https://github.com/seatgeek/sgcli https://github.com/seatgeek/sgcli
eliasmacpherson 14y ago
Great, I use debian, and the version of gnash I have (0.8.11~git.master21579-20120430-none) won't stream from soundcloud or e.g. rephlex. However gnash isn't so broken that it can't stream audio. For example the flash streamer on www.zippyshare.com works fine with gnash. I will give this command line tool a bash. At the moment am limited to downloading from soundcloud by this.
- grobie 14y ago
  Cool to hear that there are real use cases for this hack. We currently depend on Apple's CoreAudio library, but we have some plans to switch to a more generic solution to support Debian/linux as well.
  - hunterhusar 14y ago
    sick app bro i look cool sitting at my desk at work
drkmtr999 14y ago
haha, a terminal emulator that only works on an OS for people who hate terminals, known for its stylistic graphics appeal. Great job, irony driving hipsters!
- ward 14y ago
  While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.
- adam_albrecht 14y ago
  I absolutely love the terminal in OSX and I'd guess that the majority of mac-using developers probably do too.
mmahemoff 14y ago
Thanks for open sourcing this. Could you please add your license details to the project, as I'm pretty keen to build a podcast player from it (assuming certain permissive licenses).
- grobie 14y ago
  Sounds cool. I just added the License (MIT).
  - mmahemoff 14y ago
    Thanks!
chimeracoder 14y ago
Is there a build for this that doesn't require CoreAudio? I would love to run this on Linux - yet one more thing I can do straight from my terminal.
- mgeorgi 14y ago
  We're currently working on replacing CoreAudio with portaudio. Stay tuned!
SparrowOS 14y ago
Some nigger trying to claim my work? God says... curest Victor applied educate Prepared unknown unused verse dreams thereby own forceth bird conveying observing singly groan death- obtain cheered through whiner Unity covetous void till then Blessedness vicissitudes nation imperturbable excess strictness fiercely Thanks createdst ripened emblem accompany hurt contentiousness 95 reason refreshing forgetfulness China facio understood entrails endure gilded matrons served roses_are_red http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Adam/Snd/HDAudio.html#l1 http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Adam/Snd/HDAudio.html#l1 I'm white, not a nigger. God is just. You are niggers.
teeja 14y ago
My 'favorite' part of the SC redesign is how I can't scroll downward ... only the top of the page is visible. I've run across no other page on the web like that. Digg it.

75 points by paulosman 14y ago

Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stockholm-13/hacks/soundcloud2000 https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...

walls 14y ago

Nice to finally have something going the other direction; The recent SoundCloud redesign is a usability nightmare. > SoundCloud: Mind if we keep playing music after this song with no indicator of how to stop it or setting to prevent it from happening? Too bad!

ddfreyne 14y ago
I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?
- drkmtr999 14y ago
  He's not talking about playing a playlist. Usually, users create and manage playlists. Are you familiar?
  - ddfreyne 14y ago
    I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.
    - mpyne 14y ago
      But was the OP talking about that? It sounded like he was complaining that music continued to play from somewhere after the one song was linked to finished.
- walls 14y ago
  Yes, that would be expected if I selected a playlist. Unfortunately, if I link you directly to a single song, and you click play, SoundCloud decides you came wanting to hear music for as long as the tab is open. All of this ignores the fact there's no way (that I've found, and no, I'm not signing up) to disable 'automatic playlist' behavior. Worse than that, there's no obvious way to just STOP the second track without navigating away. Hell, the only indicator that a second song is even playing, other than my seething rage, is the 50px wide audio visualization tucked away in the top bar.
lzh-ng 14y ago
I had the same issue until I discovered you can pause playback with spacebar. I agree that the lack of an indication for pause/play is a serious oversight. That being said I prefer the new design over the old.
- hipsters_unite 14y ago
  Agreed, the new design is better but the autoplay feature is frankly baffling - doubly so when you consider the lack of curation/low quality/irrelevance of 'related' tracks.

achompas 14y ago

Excited to use this, but I don't have installation instructions...

grobie 14y ago
Cool :) Please have a look at the README (https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000#installation https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000#installation). And keep in mind that this is a hack version and still in alpha status. We'll add more features during the next days, including the ability to listen to something else than the hardcoded track list of Four Tet.
- achompas 14y ago
  Awesome! Thanks for adding instructions. You could do much worse than a hardcoded Four Tet tracklist, but I'm looking forward to listening to other stuff. :)

jack7890 14y ago

Reminiscent of something we made for SeatGeek: https://github.com/seatgeek/sgcli https://github.com/seatgeek/sgcli

eliasmacpherson 14y ago

Great, I use debian, and the version of gnash I have (0.8.11~git.master21579-20120430-none) won't stream from soundcloud or e.g. rephlex. However gnash isn't so broken that it can't stream audio. For example the flash streamer on www.zippyshare.com works fine with gnash. I will give this command line tool a bash. At the moment am limited to downloading from soundcloud by this.

grobie 14y ago
Cool to hear that there are real use cases for this hack. We currently depend on Apple's CoreAudio library, but we have some plans to switch to a more generic solution to support Debian/linux as well.
- hunterhusar 14y ago
  sick app bro i look cool sitting at my desk at work

drkmtr999 14y ago

haha, a terminal emulator that only works on an OS for people who hate terminals, known for its stylistic graphics appeal. Great job, irony driving hipsters!

ward 14y ago
While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.
adam_albrecht 14y ago
I absolutely love the terminal in OSX and I'd guess that the majority of mac-using developers probably do too.

mmahemoff 14y ago

Thanks for open sourcing this. Could you please add your license details to the project, as I'm pretty keen to build a podcast player from it (assuming certain permissive licenses).

grobie 14y ago
Sounds cool. I just added the License (MIT).
- mmahemoff 14y ago
  Thanks!

chimeracoder 14y ago

Is there a build for this that doesn't require CoreAudio? I would love to run this on Linux - yet one more thing I can do straight from my terminal.

mgeorgi 14y ago
We're currently working on replacing CoreAudio with portaudio. Stay tuned!

SparrowOS 14y ago

Some nigger trying to claim my work? God says... curest Victor applied educate Prepared unknown unused verse dreams thereby own forceth bird conveying observing singly groan death- obtain cheered through whiner Unity covetous void till then Blessedness vicissitudes nation imperturbable excess strictness fiercely Thanks createdst ripened emblem accompany hurt contentiousness 95 reason refreshing forgetfulness China facio understood entrails endure gilded matrons served roses_are_red http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Adam/Snd/HDAudio.html#l1 http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Adam/Snd/HDAudio.html#l1 I'm white, not a nigger. God is just. You are niggers.

teeja 14y ago

My 'favorite' part of the SC redesign is how I can't scroll downward ... only the top of the page is visible. I've run across no other page on the web like that. Digg it.