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SoundCloud without the stupid CSS files

75 points| paulosman | 13 years ago |grobie.github.com

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walls|13 years 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|13 years 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?

lzh-ng|13 years 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.

eliasmacpherson|13 years 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|13 years 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.

mmahemoff|13 years 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|13 years ago

Sounds cool. I just added the License (MIT).

achompas|13 years ago

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

grobie|13 years ago

Cool :) Please have a look at the README (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.

teeja|13 years 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.

chimeracoder|13 years 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|13 years ago

We're currently working on replacing CoreAudio with portaudio. Stay tuned!

drkmtr999|13 years 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!

adam_albrecht|13 years ago

I absolutely love the terminal in OSX and I'd guess that the majority of mac-using developers probably do too.

ward|13 years ago

While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.