Whiskie
Whiskie makes finding and listening to music on tumblr easy and enjoyable. Updates about the development of Whiskie are posted here.
This one’s important: Persistent audio and browsing Tumblr within Whiskie Ok, I feel like I’ve reached a minimum viable something with this release. Each track now has a Browse in Whiskie-Button, which lets you do just that. Drill down into any of your followed tumblr blogs and explore their music posts without interrupting the track that’s already playing. Your playlist is still at the top of the page and works as expected: you can add or remove any tracks in this view just like you can on your dashboard view.   In the future, you’ll be able to view individual tumblr blogs in this way without logging in, too.  The only thing concerning the new features that I’m not completely happy right now is the UI. Making it work took too much precedence over making it look good.  Anyway, please check it out: http://whiskie.net Cheers!

This one’s important: Persistent audio and browsing Tumblr within Whiskie

Ok, I feel like I’ve reached a minimum viable something with this release. Each track now has a Browse in Whiskie-Button, which lets you do just that. Drill down into any of your followed tumblr blogs and explore their music posts without interrupting the track that’s already playing. Your playlist is still at the top of the page and works as expected: you can add or remove any tracks in this view just like you can on your dashboard view.  

In the future, you’ll be able to view individual tumblr blogs in this way without logging in, too. 

The only thing concerning the new features that I’m not completely happy right now is the UI. Making it work took too much precedence over making it look good. 

Anyway, please check it out: http://whiskie.net

Cheers!

6 months ago
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Put your most irrelevant foot forward After spending most of the day in bed with a splitting headache, I spent a bit of the night on a fun distraction: showing the play state and progress of the current track in the favicon.  This isn’t really as smooth as I’d like it to be (Firefox is ok, Chrome flashes between icon changes, and Safari refuses to do anything at all), and the icons aren’t that beautiful yet, but I might keep the feature for those browsers that do support it. More importantly: Whiskie has a domain now! It’s http://whiskie.net! Go try out the new stuff! Also, twitter. And this tumblr, obviously.  In other news, I’m halfway through the todo list for 0.2 (mostly bugfixes and cosmetic stuff plus some more data displayed about each track). 0.3 will have more interesting features such as displaying tour dates relevant to your current location and integration with a couple of music services (to get more data on the artist, or more music by them). Good night for now!

Put your most irrelevant foot forward

After spending most of the day in bed with a splitting headache, I spent a bit of the night on a fun distraction: showing the play state and progress of the current track in the favicon. 

This isn’t really as smooth as I’d like it to be (Firefox is ok, Chrome flashes between icon changes, and Safari refuses to do anything at all), and the icons aren’t that beautiful yet, but I might keep the feature for those browsers that do support it.

More importantly: Whiskie has a domain now! It’s http://whiskie.net! Go try out the new stuff! Also, twitter. And this tumblr, obviously. 

In other news, I’m halfway through the todo list for 0.2 (mostly bugfixes and cosmetic stuff plus some more data displayed about each track). 0.3 will have more interesting features such as displaying tour dates relevant to your current location and integration with a couple of music services (to get more data on the artist, or more music by them).

Good night for now!

7 months ago
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Theme: Cavalcade
Album art and additional info First steps toward adding useful information to each track. New: Way more album art The author of the post, their avatar, and a link to the tumblr post A link to the soundcloud page, if it was a soundcloud track A link to hypemachine that tries to get you more music by the same artist. Currently, this only works if the artist has been correctly tagged in the file that was uploaded to tumblr.  Next steps: Show whether an artist is on tour near you (that’s why Whiskie asks for your location data) The ability to browse individual tumblr blogs within Whiskie A persistent Audio player so you can do this without interrupting your music High fives to Amen and Readmill, at whose lovely Berlin offices I’m currently hanging out. Thanks for the pizza!

Album art and additional info

First steps toward adding useful information to each track. New:

  • Way more album art
  • The author of the post, their avatar, and a link to the tumblr post
  • A link to the soundcloud page, if it was a soundcloud track
  • A link to hypemachine that tries to get you more music by the same artist. Currently, this only works if the artist has been correctly tagged in the file that was uploaded to tumblr. 

Next steps:

  • Show whether an artist is on tour near you (that’s why Whiskie asks for your location data)
  • The ability to browse individual tumblr blogs within Whiskie
  • A persistent Audio player so you can do this without interrupting your music

High fives to Amen and Readmill, at whose lovely Berlin offices I’m currently hanging out. Thanks for the pizza!

6 months ago
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