Start a music search engine without actually hosting any mp3 file on your server. The script uses SoundCloud API to search tracks by Artist name, Title or Album name. It comes with admin dashboard to manage site settings.
Start a music search engine with out truly internet hosting any mp3 file in your server. The script makes use of SoundCloud API to look tracks by Artist identify, Title or Album identify. It comes with admin dashboard to handle website settings.
Here's something to pass the time with while waiting for me to fix the problem with Streampad v2 not being able to add SoundCloud Sets to the playlist. I'll get to updating it soon, and it should be easy to do because the code used to achieve the following too uses the same concept as the potential fix I have in mind.
A quick and dirty javascript bookmarklet for loading a SoundCloud Set (playlist), track, or user URL into Streampad v2. My motivation for creating this was SoundCloud's extremely crappy or non-existent support for repeating or shuffling songs on their own website. I really like their site/player design, but as it is a music streaming site, I was kind of disappointed that they didn't offer user-friendly ways for repeating playlists or shuffling them during playback. Therefore, if you ever want to just load SoundCloud songs into Streampad v2 and play them there (which supports repeat and shuffle), you can do so via this bookmarklet.
All you have to do is enter a URL (make sure it starts with http:// or https://) that points to either a SoundCloud user profile (plays all the user's tracks), a SoundCloud Set/Playlist (plays all tracks in playlist), or a single track (plays just the one) when prompted. If it's a private playlist or track, you will need to enter the full URL including the 'secret token/key'.
Steps to install:
Step 1) Basically like all other javascript bookmarklets, just
right click this link:
Tumblr | Load SoundCloud Playlist/User/Track into Streampad v2
and click “Bookmark This Link”, or bookmark it to your bookmark bar, or whatever.
Step 2) Then, when you're on a tumblr blog with Streampad v2 installed, click the bookmark and enter the SoundCloud URL in the box that pops up. It should load the appropriate songs, if any exists for the URL entered.
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jQuery 1.5 dependent, bundled inside since this uses $.ajax / JSON-p to fetch data from the SoundCloud API.
Javascript bookmarklet generated with Ben Alman's jQuery Bookmarklet Generator
Authenticating without the Soundcloud Connect Screen:
If you simply need an access token for testing, and do not want to go through the connect flow, or if you have one central account your app needs to access, you can use the OAuth User Credentials Flow. An example of this kind of app would be an artist's website where you'll only be using a single SoundCloud account for the artists sets, user information and sounds. In these cases you may exchange a set of user credentials for an access token.
The Economist have pushing the boundaries of audio and podcast distribution over the last year. It's been a interesting development to see how they have approached the development of "Economist Radio".
Their ambition was cross platform and cross device publishing of their large collection of audio that is produced each week. SoundCloud was the focal point of this delivery by firstly creating a simple set player that could be embedded anywhere with all the Economist content:
They then embed each podcast into their blogs, leveraing our HTML5 player so that they are playable on smart phones and tablets. For example take a look at their Babbage blog which uses SoundCloud players for the Babbage podcast.
Next up was Facebook. This is where The Economist took their distribution to the next level. Instead of just simply posting each podcast to their Facebook wall, The Economist built a Facebook Economist Radio App, which incorporates the SoundCloud API and Facebook's open graph to track what your friends are listening to and what are the mostly popular played podcasts. Take a look over at Radio.Economist.com (which redirects you to Facebook) and here is a screen shot of the app:
They also built a Chrome app which you can find here and a Roku Economist Radio Channel - all powered via SoundCloud's API. Here's how the Chrome app looks like:
