Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3363451

by heynk • 15 years ago

7 5 15 years ago

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I was playing around with the SoundCloud API earlier today, and I saw how easy it would be to make an 'instant search' for SoundCloud. I know these aren't super original but they're fun and easy to make so I couldn't resist.

Still is buggy, but I'm going for 'just ship it' instead of 'make it perfect.'

It's all client side so I'm hosting it on a static site on S3.

http://soundcloudinstant.com

sidcool• 15 years ago

For the lazy http://soundcloudinstant.com

nostromo• 15 years ago

Awesome! It's nice to be able to use soundcloud without having to turn the comments off on each track. ;)

Feature request: forward, back, working pause button, and auto start the next track at the end of the current one.

sma• 15 years ago

Good start. Works in Chrome but not Firefox 8.

ScottWhigham• 15 years ago

Cool project - I think that's really interesting...

It might help if you gave the user some type of feedback that shows why a particular result is included (if you can). I started typing/searching for "blue" and, while a few links had the word "blue" in the title, I couldn't really see why certain songs were picked.

Also maybe make it a bit more obvious that a song is being played. This is silly of me but I had the volume muted when I came to your link. I didn't realize that the volume was muted though and so, when I clicked on a song title, I thought nothing was happening. haha - my fault, I know, but just trying to share a "user experience".

LearnYouALisp• 15 years ago

I was expecting the links to take me to the page (or even the user's page by clicking on the user's name).

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