/jamify

Play tracks of a specified beats per minute

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Jamify

Use Spotify recommendations to create your perfect playlist.

An app built with react, redux, redux-saga, and material-ui, leveraging the Spotify API.

Features

  • Log in to your Spotify account to create your own playlists with Spotify recommendations
  • Get recommended tracks by selecting among from your favorite artists, searching for any artist or genre, and modifying song attributes (energy, popularity, danceability, etc)
  • Mouseover recommended tracks to hear 30-second previews
  • Add your new playlist to your Spotify with the click of a button

Try it now at:

https://jamifynow.herokuapp.com/

To run locally:

  1. Clone this repo
  2. Add these environment variables: NODE_PATH=src and REACT_APP_AUTH_URI=http://localhost:8888/login
  3. Run yarn install && yarn start
  4. Set up the backend auth server

Improvements:

  • Rename generated playlist names
  • Remove avatar from genre chips
  • Add BPM attribute (capture three std deviations from the avg BPM but bias higher)
  • Use native accelerometer to capture real-time steps / minute to translate to BPM attribute