HypeMachine Extension Fixed

This post comes from my original WordPress blog, written between 2009 and 2018. It is kept here verbatim as an archive — the formatting did not always survive the move, and I no longer agree with all of it.

Sorry it took so long...

While I was away on vacation in Turkey (will post photos later), HypeMachine and Chrome decided to both muck up my extension. This is a short blog post to inform everyone that the code found on GitHub is now fixed and working again. Hurray!

Please go to https://github.com/fzakaria/HypeMachine-Extension to get the latest Chrome Extension.

Call to arms

What I was not able to fix however is the nifty/spiffy look of the downward arrow button. I'd love if someone can please contribute to the project and fix the arrow. I liked the original implementation of it being done in pure CSS as it blended in beautifully with the Hypem page. Please either contact me or submit a patch to the GitHub repository!

The fix

The fix for the problems were rather straightforward and entailed the following:

Updating the manifest.json for Chrome Extension to version 2.
Updating the tracks variable (that is read when injected) to the new variable name of window.displayList['tracks']

8 archived comments

Andrew 2012-09-07

It’s not working for me, I can’t see the download arrow at all.

Farid Zakaria 2012-09-07

@Andrew: Can you email me a photo of what you are seeing? Did you re-download the latest files from GitHub?

I just did a fresh install (downloaded fresh from GitHub and installed the extension) and it works. Albeit, you won’t see a full arrow (I need someone to help me fix that) but you will see a clickable half arrow thingy next to the play button!

Martin 2012-09-10

Hi Farid

Thanks :)

Is the hypescript fixed too, that’s the one I use all the time?

mun 2012-09-10

Thanks Farid! Works great

Phil 2012-09-10

Thank you Farid. I haven’t updated my ipod in forever. You’re doing humanity a service.

Farid Zakaria 2012-09-10

@Phil: Thanks! Also Thanks @Mun.

I’d like to finish the polish on it eventually and get that arrow looking pretty!

Mitchell 2012-10-01

i cant get anything to show. im not seeing the extension at all. i downloaded the latest stuff but so far cant get it to pop up. im not seeing a button either like then older version

Farid Zakaria 2012-10-01

@Mitchell: Hey everyone! I know they just changed how the URL is served . There is an extra layer of JSON.

I have a new website to allow easy downloading of the songs and an update to the script! Please check-in soon! :)