soundcloud-player's Introduction

SoundCloud Player

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:

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. :-/