spewzik

Community vote-based radio/jukebox http://spewzik.herokuapp.com

Purpose

Provide a radio where the music played is not dictated by a single person, but the whole listening community.

High-level Reqs:

Backend

• Download and convert to mp3 (or other audio formats) from music providers (youtube, soundcloud, etc.). there is a problem with direct streaming, in cases where a clip can be played in a specific region subscribers from other regions wonÕt get the stream
• Maintain a queue of songs.
• Vote up/down
• Skip songs after enough down votes (remove from playlist after x number of skips?)
• Multiple ways to queue songs? (chrome extensions, copy paste to web client, ??)

Frontend

• UI that allows to browse communities (channels)
• Create community (and password protect to limit access). Useful for work environments
• Connect/stream music from community
• Add song to community
• Vote songs up and down
• http://strd6.com/2011/09/html5-javascript-pasting-image-data-in-chrome/ to capture paste data maybe

It's probably a good idea to set up the backend as a separate REST service

Tech Stack:

Backend

• NodeJS (Coffeescript)/Express + http://pauldbergeron.com/code/networking/nodejs/coffeescript/streaming-youtube-to-mp3-audio-in-nodejs.html + http://pedromtavares.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/streaming-audio-on-the-web-with-nodejs/
• http://www.jplayer.org/ for client side playback
• MongoDB - (or other NoSQL)

This should take care of it for now

Frontend

• Jade