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makes.audio

Easy synchronization of a local folder of audio files with an online bucket that supports URL shortening, sharing tools, and a slick, personalized domain.

See this app on the web: https://makes.audio

At the moment, an invite code is required to join the production app.

Goals

In the wake of Dropbox removing support for public folders, it's tricky to find a comparable tool for managing and sharing quick demos, snippets, or full audio tracks with friends and fans. Sites like clyp.it and instaud.io are feature-rich and provide high availability, but may sacrifice quality and customization.

Focus on personalization
An intuitive and pleasant UI
Ease of organization

The goals of makes.audio are not to provide a platform for discovery, everyday streaming, or personal expression.

Tech

makes.audio is an API-driven Node/Express application. The frontend is a Vue/Vuex application written in CoffeeScript. The goal is to ship objects to S3.

Development

Node v8+ is required.

To run locally, clone and install dependencies:

git clone git@github.com:austindebruyn/makes.audio
cd makes.audio
npm i -g yarn
yarn

To set up the database locally, make sure you install MySQL separately.

node bin/createDatabase
node bin/migrate

To run the server:

npm i -g nodemon
nodemon

The app will listen on https://localhost:3000.

To build the frontend:

yarn build

For everyday development, yarn watch and nodemon in separate tabs are recommended.

Production

In production, these jobs should be run on a tidy schedule:

NODE_ENV=production bin/cleanupDeletedAudios

Tests

For backend unit tests:

yarn test:api

For frontend unit tests:

yarn test:ui

For the integration suite, you will need to ensure that:

You have placed 127.0.0.1 test-makes.audio in your hostfile
You are running a Selenium server locally.

yarn test:integration