Soundcloud.com Website Control

[BenjaminPaap]

Copied from the projects github.com page: https://github.com/benjaminpaap/SoundcloudControl

 

SoundcloudControl for Alfred2

This is an Alfred2 workflow to control an opened soundcloud.com tab in Google Chrome.

 

Installation

Just download the SoundcloudControl.alfredworkflow to your local harddrive and double click on it to open Alfred2 and import the workflow.

 

Usage

When installed correctly SoundcloudControl offers some commands to control an opened soundcloud.com tab in Google Chrome:

 

 sc play

Plays the first song in the currently opened soundcloud tab. This could be your stream, a playlist or anything else.

 

 sc pause

Stops the playback of the current song

 

 sc next

Plays the next song in the currently opened soundcloud tab

 

 sc prev

Plays the previous song in the currently opened soundcloud tab

 

 sc like

Likes the current song

 

Contributions

If you would like to use this workflow for another browser it would be great if you could contribute your changes to this repository as a pull request. I will review and merge it as fast as possible. Contributions are highly welcome.

 

This is my first workflow I shared. Any hints on improving this are highly appreciated.

Edited April 23, 2014 by BenjaminPaap

[td.]

Great Workflow! 

 

In the first step autocomplete would be nice.

So i could just type in "sc n" and press enter to skip to the next song.

 

Something like that: 

 

 

Some more ideas: 

• just show the pause and play button when it is needed (if possible)
  • "sc" + press enter would pause or play soundcloud
• show the title of the song 
• change the symbol to specific icons: play, pause, next, prev, love

 

 

That would be awesome!

 

 

EDIT:

I just found this: https://www.johneday.com/617/generate-feedback-in-alfred-2-workflows

Maybe it could help you. I have nearly no conception of apple script. 

Edited April 27, 2014 by td.

[BenjaminPaap]

Hi, 

 

I published a new version including your suggestions. Maybe someone could supply me with some icons because the ones currently included dont look great but for now it works.

[td.]

Hello,

nice! That was fast and it works good. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to load, but that is ok. 

 

 

Here are my icon suggestions. It's a combination of the icons from the soundcloud page and from icon-fonts. 

 

Download files here: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsaqkclq1i7t80h/soundcloud-icons.zip

 

 

I noticed a few things:

 

1. When you type "sc " (sc + blank) there are all six options. 

But when you only type "sc" without the blank, "like" is missing. 

 

2. It would make sense to remove the hyphen at play too. 

Like "Title"

Pause "Title"

Play - "Title"

 

3. I get following error message, when i use the "open" command:

Google Chrome got an error: Can’t make or move that element into that container.

Error number-10024

 

4. And when Chrome is closed and i type in "sc " an emtpy Chrome window is opened. 

Edited April 28, 2014 by td.

[politicus]

Like in the previous comment: when I tried to make the workflow open a soundcloud tab (no soundcloud tab was already opened) I got the error "Google Chrome got an error: Can't make or move that element into that container" "Error number -10024".

 

Using Google Chrome 34. 

 

HTH. 

Edited April 29, 2014 by politicus

[BenjaminPaap]

Made a new version available for you guys. Hopefully all bugs are fixed. Included the icons from "td.". Thanks for that man, great work.

[lmachado]

This was working fine for me for several months, and suddenly it's not working anymore. I type "s" then "c" and immediately I get the following error:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7s37juwe58c4ms/Screenshot%202014-10-30%2009.49.42.png?dl=0

 

Alfred workflow debug log doesn't show anything at all...Any ideas?

[mixterdee]

I just get an error when I type in SC:

 

Can't make missing value into type number.

 

Error number-1700

[gflores]

I'm also experiencing this issue, the only change I can think of was the v2 alfred update

 

"Can’t make missing value into type number.

 

Error number-1700"

 

Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10

[BenjaminPaap]

Sorry guys, at the moment I am not able to maintain this anymore. Had a quick look into whats going on there but wasnt able to fix it in a few minutes so I have to investigate deeper. If someone is able to code a bit javascript and AppleScript I would be glad to get a pull request on github for this issue here: https://github.com/BenjaminPaap/SoundcloudControl

[politicus]

Experiencing the "Error number-1700" error too.