#omgcatz

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I feel so loved! My cat crawled by himself for the first time ever into the space where my legs cross I didn't even put him there!

[hobbityhobbity]

New Omgcatz Tutorial!

A lot of people have been scurrying all over the Internet for the past month looking for a replacement version for the 8tracks downloader, omgcatz, including myself. However, I didn’t want to do that. Omgcatz already worked so great before, so why switch? So, I decided to figure out what was up with the mysterious new page omgcatz.com takes you to. 

With my interpretation, omgcatz is now run off of one’s own computer, but it requires a complicated install process. As an aspiring computer guru, I decided to figure it out and explain the process in everyday terms. It takes a bit of time (figuring out the whole thing took me several hours DAYS MONTHS and some communication with omgcatz’s creator), so bear with me. 

STUFF YOU NEED (these are all for proper installation):

Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/ 

VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/

Git Bash: https://git-scm.com/downloads

About 30min or an hour (I think…)

A fair amount of computer space (more than 1 GB!) 

A stable internet connection

Lots of patience!

PROCEDURE:

1. Install the version of Vagrant appropriate for your system. 

NOTE: When Vagrant installation is finished, you MUST restart your computer in order for it to function! Therefore, you might want to save this tutorial in a place where it won’t vanish after closing your browser. 

2. Install the version of VirtualBox appropriate for your system (you MAY also have to restart after this one installs too). 

3. Download Git if you haven’t already, and start the install process.

Don’t click on anything other than the “next” button when installing Git. (Mainly because I don’t know what the other stuff will do, but feel free to mess around if you want.)

4. Once all the installations are finished, open up Git (or Git Bash) on your computer. A black command window should appear, as well as something like this, with the cursor blinking after the “$” symbol:

YourName@ComputerName MINGW64 ~ (master) $

4. In the window, type (or paste) this after the “$” symbol:

git clone https://github.com/omgcatz/omgcatz &&  cd omgcatz

This will install the files you need to run omgcatz from the creator’s site. Wait until the files are finished downloading, then move onto the next step. 

After this process runs, the displayed text will change slightly, to something like this. Do not be alarmed; this is natural:

YourName@ComputerName MINGW64 ~/omgcatz (master) $

6.  In the window, type (or paste) this after the “$” symbol:

vagrant up

A crap ton of files will begin to download onto your system, and a crap ton of text will appear as it happens. This process took me awhile (about 10-20 min), so be patient! You can ignore the text unless you run into an error during the download process. If this happens (and the problem is not an obvious fix), consult omgcatz’s creator here: https://github.com/cadejscroggins/omgcatz/issues

The last line of text for this process was this for me: 

==> default: Run /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload to enable changes

Therefore, once that line of code appears, you may move on to the next step. 

After this point, the install process varies depending on what computer system you have. If you have a Mac or a Linux system, skip to step 8 . If you have a Windows system (like myself) you need to do a little extra work.

7. Input this line of code into Git:

vagrant ssh

A block of text will appear. This is because you are currently accessing a location online. Now, input this after the “$” symbol:

sudo apt-get install dos2unix

After that installs, input this line of code:

dos2unix /var/www/html/_install/setup.sh

When everything is finished, type in this:

exit

Git should return to what it looked like previously.

8. You are almost finished! Input this line of code after the “$” symbol:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo /var/www/html/_install/setup.sh"

If the process worked successfully, this should appear:

MySQL username [root]:

With this, you simply have to input the text displayed in the brackets and then press Enter. Following this, you should also be asked for a password (the text is invisible here), a server, and a db name. Do the same for these.

After these, you  should be asked if you wish to use minion servers. I said “no”, but the choice is up to you.

Following this, you will be asked to “Create database omgcatz?” and “Create tables in omgcatz?” Answer “y” to both of these.

Once all processes are finished, you may close out of Git. 

9. Omgcatz should now be successfully installed! Now, open up your preferred internet browser and type in http://localhost:8080/  . If everything is working, the standard omgcatz webpage should appear. Try inputting a mix URL to see if it works! 

NOTE: I have had issues with downloading a full “zip” file. If you are feeling adventurous and you have the same issues, browse around on omgcatz's "Issues" section. You may find a solution there.

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Like I said previously, if you have any issues, consult the omgcatz creator here: https://github.com/cadejscroggins/omgcatz/issues . 

If something is unclear to you about my tutorial, drop me an ask and I’ll try to get back to you. 

[hobbityhobbity]

Yes! I finally figured out the situation with Windows when running omgcatz! Hopefully, my tutorial will finally be posted later today! 

[jadisjavaisuncoeur]

does anyone know what’s up with omgcatz or if there’s any replacement of it ?

[blazingacrossthesky]

SOMEBODY, I need an alternative for omgcatz!!!!

I’m trying Re-Track but it doesn’t tag the songs even with the correct song title and artist name, just a bunch of random letters and numbers. Anyone? Help?

[hobbityhobbity]

Apologies once again for the delay in posting my omgcatz setup tutorial. 

I have hit a bit of a snag, probably due to the fact I am operating on Windows 8, which has some known compatibility issues with omgcatz at this time. I have consulted omgcatz’s developer about my issues and I am awaiting a response. But, for the time being, I will not be posting my tutorial until I can fully test the process on my own system (mostly to verify my steps). Thank you. 

[hellaonearth-blog]

“New” Omgcatz Setup Guide

 So about a month ago, the creator of omgcatz, cadejsroggins, decided to stop hosting the website that we all know and love to get our 8tracks fix. 

Naturally, I was quite distressed at this. BUT, never fear, for you too can host your very own version of omgcatz...right from your own computer! For free! And for those of you who balk at the setup instructions provided in the README.md, fear not. For I, the humble computer science major, am here to help you keep that sweet, sweet music flowing. 

Important note: I tried this guide with my roommate who has Windows 10 and it doesn’t work...this is because one of the 3 programs you need to install hasn’t released a stable version for Windows 10 yet. Once they do this should work, but until then you are out of luck. I haven’t tried this on Windows 8 because I don’t have access to one of those computers, so if you encounter issues, just PM me and I’ll make a separate guide and bum one of my roommates’ computer for a while to see if I can get it working. 

It looked like others on Windows were having a lot of issues in the developer’s GitHub pages. This guide should let it work on Windows...in theory. 

If you use a Mac, you’re in luck...because it definitely works. 

Alright! Here we go:

Step 1: Follow this link to the Readme.md and keep it open in a separate tab, since we’ll be referencing it frequently during setup. 

Step 2: Unless you’re a developer or very tech-savy, you probably won’t have the three required programs that omgcatz needs to run. Follow these two links to VirtualBox and Vagrant. Install these for your correct operating system  (Note: If you use Windows 10, VirtualBox doesn’t officially support it yet. This means that you can’t set it up using this guide until they have official support. I tried this setup guide on my roommate’s computer on the Windows 5.0.x testbuild which should have worked here but doesn’t. Sorry Windows 10 people!! If you’re really desperate there is a way to revert back to Windows 8 if you installed Windows 10 within 30 days of today, though I can’t guarantee this works on Windows 8. Google it to learn how!). 

Basically we will be running a virtual machine that the developer of omgcatz has configured to run correctly with all the things we are going to download from GitHub (a place where developers keep their code and continually update it). 

Step 2.5: Install Git so we can use the terminal commands that cadejsroggins has provided for us. Mac click here. Windows click here. 

For windows (skip this paragraph if in Mac): when the installer changes to “Adjusting your PATH environment” choose “Use Git from the Windows Commands Prompt”. For “Configuring the Ending Conversions” keep the “Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings”. For “Configuring the terminal emulator to use Git Bash” keep the top choice: “Use MinTTY”. Do not enable file system caching. 

NOW RESTART YOUR COMPUTER ONCE ALL THREE ARE INSTALLED. I cannot stress this enough. The following steps won’t work if you do not restart your computer to let the programs finish installing. 

Step 3: Alright, this is the cool part where you get code running across your screen and anyone looking over your shoulder will think you’re a super-hacker.  

It should be noted that things may pop up on their own after each command. Things that look like this:

Don’t worry about it. Wait until you see a little flashing cursor before typing any new commands into the terminal. it should look something like this:

Alright, let’s get started. Open the Terminal application (or command line if on windows) and type and press enter:

git clone https://github.com/cadejscroggins/omgcatz && cd omgcatz

This command tells your computer to get all the files from cadejscroggins’ repository in GitHub and copy them into a folder named omgcatz. Then it tells your terminal to move into the just-made omgcatz folder. 

Step 4: Now enter the following:

vagrant up

This sets up the virtual machine. 

Step 5: Now enter this line of code and press enter:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo /var/www/html/_install/setup.sh"

This sets up the virtual machine with the omgcatz stuff. If you’re running windows, you’ll get a scary error message that looks something like “`ssh` executable not found in any directories in the %PATH% variable.” So far other people have gotten this error too. Follow this guide by looking at the comments (each have different ways to achieve the same goal). Choose the one that seems easiest and once it’s working: then try the above code. It should resolve the issue. 

Be careful on this step: if your computer disconnects from the internet the first time you try to set up the script (or you close it out or something), it will create a temporary file and give you an error message when you try to resume downloading. Go to the folder ~/.vagrant.d/tmp via “Go to Folder” in Finder and delete the file there and attempt to rerun if this happens. 

Now fill out the following things that pop up like in the picture below. EXCEPT for “MySQL password” type out “vagrant”. If you’re on Mac, it looks like nothing is being typed, however this is not true, you just can’t see it. Type in “vagrant” and press enter. 

CONGRATS! You did it and can access omgcatz from localhost:8080. 

Now, just a few housekeeping things. After a little while the vm will turn off. No problem, just open a Command Line or Terminal, enter:

cd omgcatz (then press enter)

vagrant up (then press enter)

If you have any issues with this guide, please PM me and I’ll try my best to help you out! Enjoy the music!

[hobbityhobbity]

Omgcatz tutorial writing update: 

Sorry about the delay. I had to contact Omgcatz’s developer due to a large roadblock in my comprehension of his installation instructions. He recently updated the installation info and my tutorial will be up soon. Thank you for your patience.