Okay. I’m not gonna talk too much about my new node-webkit project Nodster because I also have a lot of studies to do (exams next week!).

The problems

• I’m still not streaming the mp3s properly. I think that I’ll never be able to do it through the html5 audio and I need to look up other solutions. The do it yourself approach seems appealing and I’m gonna look into node speaker and node lame.
• I’m using node google to crawl google and get links. It’s not working properly and I’ll have to dig into crawling google myself.
• I’m parsing pages with a regex, it really seems to be slowing everything and I’m gonna look into using a dom parser. I heard about cheerio, is it good?

What does the app do?

• Right now it’s crawling google and avoiding useless websites like youtube, facebook, soundcloud, etc…
• Then it goes one step deeper and looks for .mp3
• It checks each mp3 for size (thanks to the headers) and download a bit of each to get metadata.
• Displays the metadata and a link to play the file
• If the link is clicked, the mp3 is downloaded to a buffer.mp3 and played.

The main problem is that it’s slow, and it’s not finding enough links. I could try to parse bing, yahoo and a list of mp3 finders. Or I could maybe try to optimize the requests to google…

Anyway, this app is bringing me a lot of problems to solve and it’s pretty interesting :) some people have already forked it and someone has already requested a pull, so if you wanna help. Come and fork it!