Re: [Banshee-List] SoundCloud extension announcement

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

I share Slatet's excitement, even without having tested the extension yet!

As an extension writer, we can add you to banshee-community-extensions 
project in gitorious so you can add your code there, and it can be 
included in the next community extensions packages out of the box.

Do you have a gitorious account?


On 09/01/13 03:07, G M Slater wrote:
> 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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