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Ben Halpern
Ben Halpern

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What's playing in your headphones these days?

Not the first time this has been asked, won't be the last.

Please drop titles and/or links to music and sounds you have in your headphones for focused work these days.

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Madza

Built Devtunes FM just for this, recently been on Lo-Fi and Future Garage stations πŸ˜‰βœ¨

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Andrea Pavoni

so cool! I've just discovered it from your comment. Any chance to see its source code? I've a similar idea, but I'm struggling finding details about embedding/streaming soundcloud tracks.

Maybe I just need to dig deeper into SC API docs

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Madza

Unfortunately, the code is not public currently πŸ˜‰
Anyways, a while ago I made an article describing it in more details. πŸ˜‰

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Andrea Pavoni

Ok, just one technical question: given you have N playlists with tracks, are you just using a custom player to stream songs from SC? Did you need to register an app on SC platform or did you have to use their API keys to do that?

I'm reading the docs, I understand what the app-registration or the API keys are used/needed for, what I'm unable to find/understand is what's needed to play a bunch of tracks through a custom player on a web page. I don't need search features, adding/removing tracks, etc... I just want to play a set of tracks (the list of track IDs/URLs stored somewhere).

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Madza • Edited

All you need to work with their API is your client_id. You have to go to SoundCloud, sign in, open a track/playlist, hit F12, and go to the Networking tab, then start the song and use the search box to look out for requests containing a client_id. There you can also find other parameters like track_id, playlist_id, etc.
Then go to developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api... to see all the available API routes and use that client_id for authorization at the end of each query you want to fetch.

For example, to return a track, you would use https://api-v2.soundcloud.com/tracks/{track_id}?client_id={client_id}.
Or, to return a playlist: https://api-v2.soundcloud.com/playlists/{playlist_id}?client_id={client_id}.

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Andrea Pavoni • Edited

Thank you! I’ve been stuck on the API for some day, until I’ve re-read your comment mentioning the API v2.

Still working progress, and I took a slightly different path, but it’s online and I’m enjoying it ;-)

radio.pavonz.com

thank you again for your help and hints!

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Madza

My pleasure to help πŸ‘πŸ˜‰

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Eric O'Brien

This is a really cool project!

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Madza

Thanks a lot! πŸ‘πŸ˜‰

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Ben Halpern

For me, I have Skyfall by Adele on repeat a lot for some reason these days.

As far as music with lyrics goes, I tend to put it on repeat so the actual active listening sort of fades into the background.

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Michael Tharrington

I've been listening to the new Chili Peppers album quite a bit recently. 🌢

There's a really funky song called Aquatic Mouth Dance that I keep tuning into:

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tiff

I haven't checked out the whole album yet but I'm going to today

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Michael Tharrington

Nice! I hope you dig it. πŸ™Œ

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arielbk

I've had this on repeat too! All of them, but especially this track and Poster Child πŸ‘Œ

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Michael Tharrington

Saaaaaame... the whole album is a lotta fun, but the funky tracks like Aquatic Mouth Dance and Poster Child are just such a good time. πŸ™Œ

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fischgeek

Bob Ross.

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Ben Halpern

While coding?

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fischgeek • Edited

100%. Not only do I experience ASMR reactions, but his voice (like your repeat on Adele) fades to the background. There's just something about the sounds of the brushes, water, mixing paint with his knife and softness of his voice really sharpens my thinking. Sometimes, I admit, I get distracted by what he's doing. Marvel at it for a bit, then jump back into it.

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fischgeek

Also, should mention it's a great Pomodoro timer too. Each episode is right around 25 minutes (minus the intro and credits).

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Ben Halpern

Neat

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Thomas Bnt β˜•

This title ❀

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Arika O • Edited

Top three songs on my Spotify "On Repeat" playlist:

These last days I listened to more electronic music than usual, no idea why.

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Erin Bensinger • Edited

I'm big on vibey dream pop lately! I like to put a single album on loop for focused work, and I've been spending a lot of time with this one:

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Valencia White • Edited

Surprisingly enough, these past few days I haven't listened to much music besides the playlist I shuffle through when I have to drive somewhere.

Instead I have re-connected with an audiobook that always seems to find me when I need it most, called "The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn, 1925)".

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Mahmoud Harmouch • Edited

I used to listen to the heavy metal thing back in the days. The first album I stumbled across was the one and only Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory. It is now one of my favorites. RIP the beautiful human bein' Chester. His voice is irreplaceable.

Edit: Sometimes, i listen to mozart:

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Ricardo Giro

Lots of Bonobo, Portishead, Chet Faker and Skunk Anansie.
Oh an the Codenewbie podcast too :)

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Michael

Saw Skunk Ananse open for Rammstein in '99. If anyone was as loud as Rammstein, it was SA.

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Ricardo Giro

Never got to see them unfortunately. But I did see Rammstein and that was a crazy show that's for sure!

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Ben Sinclair

If I'm not listening to records, I'm listening to my bandcamp collection which are all downloaded and played on my desktop through dopamine which is a simple-but-pretty player.

If I want to push the boat out, I'll go with r/listentothis streamed through music player for Reddit where I've found loads of cool quirky things, or poolside FM for some, I don't know, cheese-wave or whatever.

Late at night I'll stick on something like SF 10-33 from Soma FM or browse the world through Radio Garden.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

90s D'Angelo!

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Christian Heilmann

Teams meetings.

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Michael Tharrington

🀣 ... that song always gets stuck in my head too.

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Tina Huynh • Edited

No way by Max & Harvey, Ahead of Myself by James TW, Independent with You by Kylie Morgan, etc. β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›

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Ben Halpern

I hope we're still friends, but I don't like any of that music. πŸ₯²

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Tina Huynh

hahaha definitely still friends :D I listen to a lot of stuff to be honest...but tend to not never be stuff on the radio or anything. I mean like Are We Happy Now by The Ready Set, What the Hard Times Taught Me by Jason Gray, Might Not Like Me by Brynn Elliott, Legacy by Lost Stars, Dark Side by Kelly Clarkson, and Just the Way by Parmalee and Blanco Brown xD lol

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Natalia Asteria • Edited

I lovee JPop and Cantonese songs so much.

My big favs are:

Sailor - Zheng Zhi Hua

Yoasobi - Into The Nights

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