soundcloud2000

soundcloud2000

The next generation SoundCloud client. Without all these stupid CSS files. Runs on OSX and Linux.

This hack was built at the Music Hack Day Stockholm 2013.

Requirements

• Ruby (1.9)
• Portaudio (19)
• Mpg123 (1.14)

Installation

Assuming you have Ruby/Rubygems installed, you need portaudio and mpg123 as library to compile the native extensions.

OSX

xcode-select --install
brew install portaudio
brew install mpg123
gem install soundcloud2000

Debian / Ubuntu

apt-get install portaudio19-dev libmpg123-dev libncurses-dev ruby1.9.1-dev
gem install soundcloud2000

Usage

In order to use soundcloud2000, you need to acquire a client credential for your application. soundcloud2000 expects a valid client id to be set in the SC_CLIENT_ID environment variable.

You can either set this up in your .bashrc or equivalent or you can specify it on the command line:

SC_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_CLIENT_ID soundcloud2000

Features

• stream SoundCloud tracks in your terminal (enter)
• scroll through sound lists (down / up)
• play / pause support (space)
• forward / rewind support (right / left)
• play tracks of different users (u)
• play favorites from a user (f)
• play sets/playlists from a user (s)
• level meter

Planned

• play any streams, sets or sounds
• better browsing between users and sound lists

Authors

• Matthias Georgi (@mgeorgi)
• Tobias Schmidt (@dagrobie)

Contributors

• Travis Thieman (@tthieman)
• Sean Lewis (@FricSean)