Comments for Jay Paroline - Grooveshark Dev

Comment on Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop by James Hartig

James Hartig — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:44:39 +0000

Hey skkf, could you email me: fastest963 at gmail. Comments are the best place to start debugging this. However, before you email me:

1) Open Start-> Run
2) Type in %AppData% and tell me where it goes when you email me.

Comment on 500,000 Users and scaling by Jay

Jay — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:36:15 +0000

I agree, but the mobile teams have been very busy making their apps not suck. :) They’ve seen quite a bit of spit and polish and are getting to the point where they’re pretty stable now and almost feature complete, so I hope we will start to see features like scrobbling make their way in. There’s still a few things I’d like to see them do first though, like give me access to my library and my favorite playlists.

Comment on 500,000 Users and scaling by Brian Kenyon

Brian Kenyon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:33:16 +0000

Yes I love the scrobbling available in the VIP account however, many of us are still waiting for scrobbling support from the Android mobile app as well and not only the website.

Comment on Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop by skkf

skkf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:02:40 +0000

I think I know why it’s not working. I’ve changed my localization of %AppData%. Now it’s under E:\system\Application Data, and when I’ve pasted the folder “GroovesharkDesktop.7F9BF17D6D9CB2159C78A6A6AB076EA0B1E0497C.1″ to the original path G:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\ the keyboard helper is able to write pressed hotkeys to the file, but grooveshark does not respond. Is there any other way then changing back my appdata localization?

Comment on Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop by skkf

skkf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:39:21 +0000

“We received yout hotkey but we could not write to the file.”

I’m running it on windows xp sp3. What’s wrong?

Comment on Grooveshark Keyboard Shortcuts for Linux by Intars Students

Intars Students — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:11:53 +0000

@pharkink well I don’t have keyboard with such media keys, so I can’t test and build support for it :/

Comment on What to do when Intel SpeedStep is really, really broken by Win7User

Win7User — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:23:25 +0000

Thanks for writing about this!

Comment on Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop by pharkink

pharkink — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:06:34 +0000

Instars app works, but I couldn’t get media keys (the play/pause button) to work, and customizing the keys didn’t work so well either. Below is a mini script I’ve made that can be used in gnome-keybinding-properties.
Here’s how you use it:
1) Open gnome-keybinding-properties (in ubuntu, click System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts).
2) Click on ‘Add’
3) Fill in a name, e.g. “Grooveshark Play/Pause”
4) Fill in the command: “gs-cmd playpause”
5) Click “Apply”, then close the ‘custom shortcut’ window
6) Assign a shortcut to the new command, by clicking on it and then hitting the (media) key for the action. For Play/Pause it should say “XF86AudioPlay”.

repeat steps 2-6 for other commands like ‘next’ or ‘previous’.

Save this script as file ‘gs-cmd’ in a location that’s in the user’s path.

The script, gs-cmd :

#!/bin/sh
basedir=~/.appdata
ctnt=`ls -A $basedir`
for dr in $ctnt
do
mtch=`expr match “$dr” “GroovesharkDesktop.”`
if [ $mtch -eq 19 ]
then
filedir=$basedir/$dr/”Local Store/”
cd “$filedir”
echo “$1″ > “shortcutAction.txt”
fi
done

Comment on Grooveshark Keyboard Shortcuts for Linux by pharkink

pharkink — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:48:46 +0000

Unfortunately it is not possible to use mediakeys with Instars’ script. Below is a very simple shell script that you can assign to the media buttons on your keyboard in gnome-keybinding-properties:
Just save script below as “~/gs-cmd”, chmod +x it, and then in gnome-keybinding-properties click add, fill in something for the name and use “gs-cmd playpause” as command. Apply, then bind ‘XF86AudioPlay’ to it. Repeat for ‘next’ and ‘previous’.

gs-cmd :
#!/bin/sh
basedir=~/.appdata
ctnt=`ls -A $basedir`
for dr in $ctnt
do
mtch=`expr match “$dr” “GroovesharkDesktop.”`
if [ $mtch -eq 19 ]
then
filedir=$basedir/$dr/”Local Store/”
cd “$filedir”
echo “$1″ > “shortcutAction.txt”
fi
done

Comment on Technology Stack by IT.NeverEnds

IT.NeverEnds — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:44:54 +0000

I was actually wondering what was driving “Grooveshark” (no i wasn’t bored just curious, hehe)
and that’s how i ended in your blog, thanks for the explanation.