SoundCloud api Artist Ascii Image

This command-line tool uses the soundcloud api and jp2a library (http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/) to display the cover image (avatar) for an artist (user) on soundcloud.

Prerequesites:

Gem install the soundcloud ruby api wrapper

gem install soundcloud

Download the jp2a library. On a mac with homebrew, this is done by:

brew install jp2a

Usage:

bash ruby artist_ascii_image.rb ARTIST_NAME

Examples:

ruby artist_ascii_image.rb phoenix

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