Friday, November 9, 2012

How to repeat tracks in SoundCloud.com

Ever since A.R.Rahman performed his new composition for the movie Kadal (a Tamizh movie directed by Maniratnam sir) for the song titled "Nenjukulle" on MTV Unplugged, people, I am sure, have been playing it in loop. For those who want to play the sound track repeatedly in youtube, we have youtube repeater service that is freely available. Details can be found here About Youtube Repeater

But, for those who prefer to use Soundcloud, there was no option to play a sound-track in loop. That is when the idea to create a bookmarklet to get the job done, dawned on me. Also, thanks to my friend Krishnan (a budding musician and a heavy user of SoundCloud) that I felt the need for this repeater functionality. 

Using the luxury of the search engines these days and Github, I could figure out that the problem was already solved. Just that I didnt find that the solution was neatly packaged so that people could use it, easily. I am doing the packaging of the solution here.

Credits:
Bookmarklet sourced from here

Drag and drop the link below to the bookmarks bar, so that the bookmarklet is installed in your browser. 




Youtube Repeater

All the music lovers out there, I am sure many of you would have the habit of listening to a song repeatedly for hours. It is annoying in a way, when you have to keep going back to the youtube tab to play the song again, each and every time the song is over.

I found an elegant solution online for the same. What makes the solution elegant is the ease with which any user can get benefitted from this solution available online. Well thought out, I must say.

How to play songs in loop on Youtube :

1. Let's say the song you are listening to is http://www.youtube.com/ABC
2. Add repeater in between "youtube" and ".com" and you are all set.(and everything else remains the same)
     Eg: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/ABC

Get addicted to the favorite tracks of yours.

Addiction is good!

Update:
I want to point out that if you are streaming youtube via https, merely adding repeater in the URL is not enough. You will have to change the URL so that you use http instead of https as well.