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
- 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
- Live search the entire database
- Results seperated by appropriate categories
- Selecting a result leads to relevant 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
- Displays album track listing and information
- Ability to save individual songs or entire album to user library
- Ability to add song to playlist
- 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
- Simple, yet elegant modal for user account creation and login
- Demo user provided with automatic login functionality
- Up/arrow/enter key functionality on album/playlist pages
- Improved mobile compatibility