Tumtaster v0.4.9 Released

Well, that didn’t take long. I worked up a way to add download links for tumblr’s new player style. It’s not the prettiest (send me a pull request!) but it was interesting work, it looks like tumblr is using a modified version of audiojs and I have to say, it works well and looks nice too.

I don’t have versions for other browsers yet, but it’s something I’m looking at doing. As usual, you can get tumtaster from http://tumtaster.bjornstar.com. And if you know anyone who wants to hire a talented software developer send me an email. I am looking for work!

TumTaster v0.4.8 Released

I just finished updating TumTaster for Chrome to work with the latest changes from Tumblr. I also took the liberty of fixing it so that it won’t repeatedly add download links if there’s an error. Enjoy!

Photo by: tfail

Star this bug

Many of you ran into problems in the past few weeks with Tumblr Savior. Especially those of you who aren’t running the absolute latest stable version of Chrome. Well, Google is pushing changes to Chrome Extensions which spell the end of support of all extensions for versions of Chrome prior to v18. Do you want Tumblr Savior and Tumtaster to continue working on whichever version of Chrome you choose to run? Then you’ll want to show your support by starring this bug on the Google bug tracker.

If we don’t let Google know how important it is not to abandon extension support for older versions, Google will remove extension support for Chrome versions older than v18 in November. So click through to http://crbug.com/138740 and click on the star where it says Issue 138740 to show your support. Otherwise, in a few months you won’t get any updates for Tumblr Savior and Tumtaster on older versions of Chrome.

I’ll keep you posted on how things shake out. Thanks for your support.

TumTaster v0.3.1

I couldn’t leave well enough alone, I had to make the options page prettier. I also added buttons to remove songs from the playlist. Enjoy!

The TumTaster extension for Chrome can be found here: http://tumtaster.bjornstar.com

The original TumTaster greasemonkey script can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29860

TumTaster v0.3

Now with blacklists and whitelists. You can add usernames, artist names, and song titles and TumTaster will look at the content in the post and see if it should add the song to your playlist or not. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

The TumTaster extension for Chrome can be found here: http://tumtaster.bjornstar.com

The original TumTaster greasemonkey script can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29860

TumTaster v0.2

I’ve updated TumTaster to make it a little prettier, fix a small bug, and added an explanation about how to get the MP3 playback function to work. If you just want to use this to get download links, you don’t need to worry about the flash permissions. You should update from v0.1 because I accidentally killed the previous and next links on the “tagged” pages of the dashboard (sorry!).

By the way, if you want to hack on this be my guest. The TumTaster git repository is hosted on github. I do need help making it prettier. For future functionality I plan to use Chrome’s HTML5 player and store data using HTML5 as well. For now I’m using SoundManager because Chrome’s current HTML5 player is full on amateur hour with it’s 0.5 second interaction delay.

TumTaster for Google Chrome

Since I switched over to using Google Chrome I’ve been missing my TumTaster greasemonkey script. Luckily, I can now publish this extension which builds on my original work. Besides adding download links to every single audio post, TumTaster extension for Google Chrome now keeps track of all the audio posts you’ve seen recently on your dashboard or on various tumblr blogs. When I first started using TumTaster I was like, hell yeah, the people I follow have great taste in music, this is what I’m talking about!

Just click on the little Tumblr button next to your address bar and it’ll show you all the posts that have audio tracks in them. click on the url of the post to play the song. If you right click on the Tumblr button next to your address bar you can edit options for repeat and random. Fair warning: the random is pretty crappy and you might get the same songs over and over again.

I know it ain’t pretty but it let’s me play music and keep going through my dashboard and that’s all I need. Hope you like it. I’ll slowly make it prettier and add more functionality.

The TumTaster extension for Chrome can be found here: http://tumtaster.bjornstar.com

The original TumTaster greasemonkey script can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29860