NPerez
August 28th, 2008, 05:30 AM
here's a plugin for seeqpod.com -
http://nickjperez.googlepages.com/Seeqpod.zip
*99.9% credit goes to Unbehagen, who originally created this for XBMC.
i made some very minimal modifications to get it working correctly in boxee, and added a thumbnail logo. you'll need the latest version of boxee - old releases won't be compatible.
it doesn't work too great, because Seeqpod returns so many 404 results, but i thought i'd share anyway in case someone's interested. if you search for a specific song, you'll usually get a good amount of results and will almost always find one that plays. just searching for a popular artist's name can result in an overwhelming amount of dead links though :( . I have tried verifying that each link is alive from within the plugin, but it increased load times to an unusable level so i decided to drop the idea.
known issue: just noticed that sometimes it starts spitting out errors to the log like crazy (invalid index etc etc etc), and all search results stop working until restarting boxee. looking into it..
To install in Ubuntu:
1. navigate to /usr/boxee/plugins/music/ and extract the 'Seeqpod' folder from the archive there.
2. with hidden file viewing enabled (ctrl+h) , navigate to /home/[your username]/.boxee/UserData/profiles/[your boxee username]/ and open sources.xml with your text editor of choice. Within the <music> tag, add:
<source>
<name>Seeqpod</name>
<path>plugin://music/Seeqpod/</path>
<thumbnail>Q:/plugins/music/Seeqpod/default.tbn</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>
it should now show up under Music>Internet Music in boxee.
To install in OS-X (borrowed from chatterbox's iplayer instructions in this (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=202&page=3) thread):
1) Open the Boxee Package contents and browse to:
Contents\Resources\boxee\plugins\music
Copy the contents of the downloaded plugin to that directory
2) browse to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/[your boxee username]/ and open in TextEdit sources.xml
3) Under the Music section add:
<source>
<name>Seeqpod</name>
<path>plugin://music/Seeqpod/</path>
<thumbnail>Q:/plugins/music/Seeqpod/default.tbn</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>
it should now show up under Music>Internet Music in boxee.
http://nickjperez.googlepages.com/Seeqpod.zip
*99.9% credit goes to Unbehagen, who originally created this for XBMC.
i made some very minimal modifications to get it working correctly in boxee, and added a thumbnail logo. you'll need the latest version of boxee - old releases won't be compatible.
it doesn't work too great, because Seeqpod returns so many 404 results, but i thought i'd share anyway in case someone's interested. if you search for a specific song, you'll usually get a good amount of results and will almost always find one that plays. just searching for a popular artist's name can result in an overwhelming amount of dead links though :( . I have tried verifying that each link is alive from within the plugin, but it increased load times to an unusable level so i decided to drop the idea.
known issue: just noticed that sometimes it starts spitting out errors to the log like crazy (invalid index etc etc etc), and all search results stop working until restarting boxee. looking into it..
To install in Ubuntu:
1. navigate to /usr/boxee/plugins/music/ and extract the 'Seeqpod' folder from the archive there.
2. with hidden file viewing enabled (ctrl+h) , navigate to /home/[your username]/.boxee/UserData/profiles/[your boxee username]/ and open sources.xml with your text editor of choice. Within the <music> tag, add:
<source>
<name>Seeqpod</name>
<path>plugin://music/Seeqpod/</path>
<thumbnail>Q:/plugins/music/Seeqpod/default.tbn</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>
it should now show up under Music>Internet Music in boxee.
To install in OS-X (borrowed from chatterbox's iplayer instructions in this (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=202&page=3) thread):
1) Open the Boxee Package contents and browse to:
Contents\Resources\boxee\plugins\music
Copy the contents of the downloaded plugin to that directory
2) browse to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/[your boxee username]/ and open in TextEdit sources.xml
3) Under the Music section add:
<source>
<name>Seeqpod</name>
<path>plugin://music/Seeqpod/</path>
<thumbnail>Q:/plugins/music/Seeqpod/default.tbn</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>
it should now show up under Music>Internet Music in boxee.