Wow, this has a great deal of polish. Feels responsive, fast. Design is fantastic (do I see a little spotify inspiration going on?). Great work.
I also recommend VOX (http://coppertino.com/vox/mac) which has a pretty neat SoundCloud integration. It's compact and has been my player of choice for about a year now.
Will give SoundNode a try today, see if it can beat VOX.
Update: When scrubbing forward on the song timeline, there should be some sort of click feedback. Right now I click somewhere ahead of where it's currently playing and it sort of freezes for a second while it loads. I suggest some type of indicator that it's "seeking" or buffering to where I clicked. A Simple "buffering" should do the trick.
So glad someone has finally made a full Desktop client rather than a status bar app, and it's really good! I Like how I can play with the play button the keyboard. It would be nice to see tools to play audio though other sources, like apple tv.
@weblancaster I've been using this for the past week now, and absolutely love the app!
Two minor notes:
1. If I have two music apps open (i.e. Spotify and SoundNode), SoundNode seems to always take priority when I use the play/pause button on my Mac (F8). Normally, for example with iTunes and Spotify, it will prioritize the one that was active more recently. Is this something you could add to your backlog for SoundNode?
2. When I look at a specific account's tracks, I see doubles of every song. It leads to every song getting played twice in a row. Just another item for your backlog for when you have time.
Again, love the app, thanks for making it! If you have any questions about my above points, feel free to reply to me here or ping me on Twitter (@zachrabin).
@zachrabin thanks for the feedback.
We are aware of your item 1.. this is a NW.js issue we are exploring ways around it but so far no luck.
And about your item 2 this will be fixed (I thought we had fixed that one :/ ) and released in the next version.
thanks again.
I installed it when I see the article by @ow on TheNextWeb.
For me SoundNode for Soundcloud is like Plug for Hypemachine. You can use the website only but when you use the app, it greatly enhances the experience. Great work @weblancaster .
Little feedback, I would love to be able to like a song when I click on the artwork at the bottom of this app.
thanks, this is great! love the media keys support and notifications.
As for the critique - some weird UI here and there but solid non the less. Waiting to see how you improve it! The only thing that's really worth looking into is the app icon. It's barely visible in the dock -
@loutseau Yeah I agree the icon looks pretty bad.. but @pmarquees (twitter handle) said it's working on a new version for us which he showed me and I really liked.
This is fantastic and has already transformed Soundcloud from something I logged into and checked periodically, to the primary app streaming my tunes at work.
@rrhoover :/ you should have told me about it I would have investigate.. we had some issues related to logging (because of NW.js bugs).
Try again and let me know if you have any issues.
Troops