Inspiration
Music has a great impact on all of our lives, but it's something we almost never share. When you walk across campus, what do you see but a sea of students, walking around with headphones in? What if this changed? What if there was a platform for people to not only find their favorite tracks on the Spotify platform but also compare those tracks to those around them? A heat map of music perhaps, a cacophony of sounds, originating from the user but joining a chorus of like-minded individuals. What if you can find these like-minded people and meet over classic rock, EDM, or rap? This is the world we envision.
What it does
BeatSync is to get a user's top played tracks, artists, and genres and collecting that data into a local map. This is the basic functionality we want to accomplish and plan on expansions that will make use of geolocation.
How we built it
BeatSync is to run on Spotify's Web API, through node.js
Challenges we ran into
A few major roadblocks were abundant during the life of BeatSync @ HackMerced 2019. One major hurdle was the learning curve of creating a locally hosted website with a server JavaScript file connecting to the Spotify API. Once connected, we were able to get a user's session tokens but found a second major hurdle, running through Spotify's Authorization pathway for OAuth tokens.
Accomplishments that we're proud of & what we learned
As novices to website building, members on our team learned valuable introductions to HTML, Node.JS, Spotify's Web API, and more. We learned how much dedication is needed to run to a local server, and what is needed to host one online.
What's next for BeatSync
A major feature we would like to add to this music map is a listener's hub. The user would be able to view this map and see what users listen to around them. Branching from this would be meeting individuals based on artist and genre affinity.
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