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