apsun / sc-repost-blocker

A browser extension to remove reposts from your SoundCloud stream.

SoundCloud repost blocker

Removes reposts from your SoundCloud stream. I follow artists because I enjoy their music, not their taste in music.

Note that reposts on artist pages are not removed, since SoundCloud has that functionality built in. Only reposts on the homepage stream will be filtered.

Notes

As of version 2.0, you may still see reposts if you are following the artist who originally posted the track. This addresses the following scenario: you follow both A and B; A posts a track; B reposts it.

As of version 2.1, you may still see reposts if the name of the user reposting the track appears in the track title. This addresses the following scenario: you follow A; B posts a track which A contributed to; A reposts it (this is a common pattern for labels and collabs).

sc-repost-blocker's Issues

Rewrite reposts with original upload time

Common complaint is that after we started whitelisting reposts that were originally posted by someone that the user follows, tracks are out of order and reposting a track will "bump" it to the top of the user's stream.

To avoid this, we can maintain an internal priority queue of tracks sorted by original upload time, and only return them to the client once either queue[pagination_size..end] contains a non-repost (guaranteeing that anything in queue[0..pagination_size] is in-order), or there are no more tracks from the upstream data source.

Allow reposts from following list

I never realized this, but it's kind of obvious in hindsight. Say I follow users A and B. A posts a track, and then B reposts it. When I load my stream, I will get only the reposted version from B, because it's newer. This then gets filtered out, meaning I never see the track even though I would have if B never reposted it.

Experimental support for this can be found in the experimental branch (https://github.com/apsun/sc-repost-blocker/tree/experimental), although it seems a bit racy on page load.

How to install version 2.1

Is there an installable version of 2.1 somewhere? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/soundcloud-repost-blocker/ only has version 2.0.

Thanks.

Allow reposts that contain the reposter's name

There's a pretty common pattern of: post track on someone else's channel, then repost that track onto your own. If we blanket ban all reposts, we also block these which is undesirable.

Unfortunately, people tend to use variations/stylizations of their name in their profile, so a simple string match will probably not catch many of these cases. I don't know if there's a good solution for this.

Can you add a funcion to block an specific user but not all reposts?

Can you add a funcion to block an specific user but not all reposts?