matthew andersen

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SeeqPod is a handy website when looking for some new music to listen to, or when you’re away from your music library but want to here a specific song. However, they don’t provide you with direct links to download the music. Now that is no longer a problem!

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Introducing, as my first Dashboard widget, SeeqPod Widget.

Installation Instructions (copied from Apple)
“Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’ss icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.”

Note: Currently I have only tested this with 10.5. I just don’t have a 10.4 system anymore. Grab it, play with it, send me feedback. I’ll try to get access to a 10.4 machine somewhere.

General Information
With the SeeqPod Widget you can now search for your favorite or new music from within your Mac OS X Dashboard and quickly save them to your desktop. Type any keyword into the search box and press return. The results will pop up in a list box for downloading.

Before using the widget you will need to create an account at SeeqPod.com. They will provide you with a User ID that needs to be copy and pasted into the back of the widget.

This release is what I’d call a beta release. It’s worked pretty well for me. But I’m kind of excited to get other people to try it so it might be rough around the edges. If you have a problem send me an email with what you searched for and which link you clicked on.

Features:

• Searching SeeqPod for music
• Returns the Top 50 results
• Allows you to download the music
• Monitor the progress of the download

Current Limitations:

• Unable to cancel downloads. Just haven’t put the button in yet.
• Does not tell you why it failed

Known Bugs

• SeeqPod’s website can play more music than the widget can download. I think they’ve caching music and not exposing it. Nothing I can do here.
• If you switch between tabs really quickly sometimes the interface gets messed up

Future Plans:

• Implement direct to iTunes importing
• Growl support
• Inline playing of music. Sampling is good.