Appo Music

About

Appo Music is a full-stack clone of the incredible Apple Music online streaming platform, with an aim to re-create it's core features, seamless design, and excellent user experience.

Backend:

• Ruby on Rails

Frontend:

• JavaScrip ES6
• React
• Redux

Features

Music Player

• Fully functional music player
• Clicking/playing a song adds song to music player and automatically creates a queue of next songs
• Loop/shuffle functionality (setting saved for next session if logged in)
• "LCD" display with current playback information and relevant links to song artist & album
• 30 Second previews for logged out users
• Space bar support to play/pause from keyboard

Search

• Live search the entire database
• Results seperated by appropriate categories
• Selecting a result leads to relevant page

Artist Page

• Displays most recent release and chronological discography
• Live list of top songs – calculated by play count
  • Selecting a top songs leads to album that contains it, hightlights song, and brings it into view for easy selection
• Quickplay
  • Start playback of artist's most popular songs
• Artist description modal

Album Page

• Displays album track listing and information
• Ability to save individual songs or entire album to user library
• Ability to add song to playlist

Playlist CRUD

• User can create, rename, delete and add songs to playlist
• Playlist page contains all playlist songs with a rotating display of their album's cover artwork

User Authentication

• Simple, yet elegant modal for user account creation and login
• Demo user provided with automatic login functionality

Future Features

• Up/arrow/enter key functionality on album/playlist pages
• Improved mobile compatibility