Dear Paul:
Thank you for this incredible new extension! As musician with two
bands on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/occurrences-in-rain
and https://soundcloud.com/the-elderbranch-campaign)
it is wonderful to know that a simple extension like this will
enable my material to possibly be heard by a wider audience. As an avid user of Banshee
it is wonderful to be able to easily access the artists I follow
on SoundCloud within the same application I use for listening to
everything else.
I have installed the extension and performed some basic
testing... So far so good. No problems to report at all! One
suggestion though. I think it would be extremely useful to be able
to browse SoundCloud by genre as well as by individual artists.
I will be anxious to see what the future holds for the extension.
Please keep everyone posted as to its further development.
G M Slater
On 01/08/2013 02:59 AM, Paul Mackin
wrote:
Hello fellow Banshee users,
I'd like to make available a small extension I've written for
Banshee that lets you stream a SoundCloud artist's tracks.
Its a first release and quite basic but I would like to see how
useful it would be for people. I love exploring SoundCloud and
finding new artists but I quickly become frustrated with their
in-browser player which, IMO, suffers from poor interface design
and intermittent dropouts in the stream.
I'm surprised at the 'barrier of entry' for writing an extension
for Banshee, there seems to be very little devekioer documentation
and how-to's out there to guide newbies through the jungle of
code. Not that the code layout is without rhyme or reason but it
felt like trying to move my way around a new city without any
street signs to guide me or any sense of municipalities/regions.
All I could scroung up were these two URLs:
http://www.paulcutler.org/blog/?p=1264
and
http://banshee-media-player.2283330.n4.nabble.com/How-to-write-my-first-Plugin-td2982966.html
Under the hood it grabs all the streaming URLs for each track and
stores them as radio streams.
Grab the source code and/or DLL for the extension here:
https://github.com/squamous/banshee-soundcloud-extension
Thanks :)
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