Control Soundcloud from your toolbar, with ease.
One of my favourite sites at the moment is SoundCloud.com; I’m playing my ever growing stream all day long while coding, so I knew exactly what to build: sound player controls in Australis style!
I was in for a pleasant surprise. Not only were the APIs straightforward to use, but the Addon-SDK APIs were also pleasantly well-documented.
Time for a couple of screenshots of the end result:
- http://note.io/1gDTNQ0
- http://note.io/1gDTSTW
- http://note.io/1hQ2Q5L
- http://note.io/1gDTZyT
- http://note.io/1hQ2U5z
You can find the add-on on AMO at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/soundcloud-player/
License: MPL.
Sources and build instructions of the binary components can be found at https://github.com/mstange/mediakeysappleremotesimfy/tree/895c6b9a86ab919feb4d4b93481e78db3aff8ae5
Features:
- Looks up the first open SoundCloud tab and starts playing the first song in it.
- Opens a new tab when it can’t find one
- Skip to next or previous song
- Polls the SoundCloud page structure to track player status
- Localizable (standard SDK feature)
- Support for OSX media keys and Apple Remote - thanks to Markus Stange!
- Check out his project at https://github.com/mstange/mediakeysappleremotesimfy
- Repo contains some tools that I built around it to make creating future add-ons easier:
- CSS pre-processor, so you can write Mozilla-style CSS(tm): %define, %ifdef…else…endif
- variable substitution
- and more fun stuff.
- Simple abstraction for writing wide-widget add-ons.
- No docs. Yet. :-/
Cheers and have fun!
Mike.