I was playing around with the SoundCloud API earlier today, and I saw how easy it would be to make an 'instant search' for SoundCloud. I know these aren't super original but they're fun and easy to make so I couldn't resist.
Still is buggy, but I'm going for 'just ship it' instead of 'make it perfect.'
It's all client side so I'm hosting it on a static site on S3.
Cool project - I think that's really interesting...
It might help if you gave the user some type of feedback that shows why a particular result is included (if you can). I started typing/searching for "blue" and, while a few links had the word "blue" in the title, I couldn't really see why certain songs were picked.
Also maybe make it a bit more obvious that a song is being played. This is silly of me but I had the volume muted when I came to your link. I didn't realize that the volume was muted though and so, when I clicked on a song title, I thought nothing was happening. haha - my fault, I know, but just trying to share a "user experience".
Still is buggy, but I'm going for 'just ship it' instead of 'make it perfect.'
It's all client side so I'm hosting it on a static site on S3.
http://soundcloudinstant.com
For the lazy http://soundcloudinstant.com
Awesome! It's nice to be able to use soundcloud without having to turn the comments off on each track. ;)
Feature request: forward, back, working pause button, and auto start the next track at the end of the current one.
Good start. Works in Chrome but not Firefox 8.
Cool project - I think that's really interesting...
It might help if you gave the user some type of feedback that shows why a particular result is included (if you can). I started typing/searching for "blue" and, while a few links had the word "blue" in the title, I couldn't really see why certain songs were picked.
Also maybe make it a bit more obvious that a song is being played. This is silly of me but I had the volume muted when I came to your link. I didn't realize that the volume was muted though and so, when I clicked on a song title, I thought nothing was happening. haha - my fault, I know, but just trying to share a "user experience".
I was expecting the links to take me to the page (or even the user's page by clicking on the user's name).