Show HN: SoundCloud Instant • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by karangoeluw » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:36 AM UTC

keane wrote: post #10

t0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great. It would be nice to see the next couple of songs that are going to play and maybe a delete button next to them. A Youtube version would also be useful.

I like the idea but search on YouTube seems to be so inaccurate I'm not sure if it would work nearly as well. I'm having trouble thinking of how to improve scInstant as it is--it's so pared down and fast and just works! Great job!

I'm glad you like it. Feel free to send any PRs. As long as the UI isn't bloated, I'm happy to merge. :)

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by rakoo » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:46 AM UTC

Hmmm...

> Blocked loading mixed active content "http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"

> Blocked loading mixed active content "http://connect.soundcloud.com/sdk.js"

You're trying to mix HTTPS and HTTP...

I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name.

Oh, and it looks like every action is sent to google for statistics ?

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by whizzkid » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 7:29 AM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #2

I made this small app last Saturday solely because I wanted to. Any feedback is welcome. Oh, and the source code is open: https://github.com/karan/scInstant EDIT: Right now, it's meant to be used only on desktop. I'm starting to get into frontend stuff, so don't really know how to touch optimize the app. Again, suggestions welcome.

Great! I guess it is searching little bit too fast so that using browser's back button showing some other results for each key stroke.

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by huckyaus » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 7:40 AM UTC

Nice work. I'm personally not a huge fan of autoplay, since there's a ton of stuff on SC and the search results aren't always accurate enough.

Volume control would also be ace. Not sure how easy that would be to implement - now that I think about it, I've never seen it on any of their widgets.

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by zeel » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

huckyaus wrote: post #14

Nice work. I'm personally not a huge fan of autoplay, since there's a ton of stuff on SC and the search results aren't always accurate enough. Volume control would also be ace. Not sure how easy that would be to implement - now that I think about it, I've never seen it on any of their widgets.

Personally I prefer Bandcamp's approach to volume control:

http://bandcamp.com/help/audio_basics#volume

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by clay_to_n » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 9:02 AM UTC

Small bug: it reloads the track when I press the volume up / down keys on my keyboard. Using a samsung 7-series notebook.

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by yeukhon » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 10:13 AM UTC

This reminds me of Feross Aboukhadijeh his Youtube instant. (http://www.quora.com/What-were-the-main-reasons-why-Feross-A...)

Does the API has rate limit? Are you sending a new query every 200ms? https://github.com/karan/scInstant/blob/gh-pages/app.js#L98

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by digisocialnet » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:04 PM UTC

i love it but it would be cooler with a full screen UI, there was a soundcloud api hack that would play people's loved/favorited tracks that kind of did that..

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by wdewind » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:31 PM UTC

rakoo wrote: post #12

Hmmm... > Blocked loading mixed active content " http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" > Blocked loading mixed active content " http://connect.soundcloud.com/sdk.js" You're trying to mix HTTPS and HTTP... I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name. Oh, and it looks like every action is sent to google for statistics ?

> I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name.

To OP: The way to fix this is to have the JS make a request to your own server, have your own server make the request to Soundcloud and proxy it back to you. That way you don't have to put your key in the JS, you can keep it on your server.

Re: Show HN: SoundCloud Instant

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Post by karangoeluw » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

rakoo wrote: post #12

Hmmm... > Blocked loading mixed active content " http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" > Blocked loading mixed active content " http://connect.soundcloud.com/sdk.js" You're trying to mix HTTPS and HTTP... I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name. Oh, and it looks like every action is sent to google for statistics ?

Well the URLs are provided by SoundCloud and jQuery so there's nothing that I can do (other than hosting it myself).

Yeah I just hope no one misuses it.

Yes.