Best Project of CMU Web Application Development S24. It is more than a toy Music playing platform like Spotify. It has a streaming feature implemented using WebSockets that users can listen to specific live-streaming music radio created by other users and chat. But, overall, this project is just a trivial one without any interesting ideas (I mean, there might also be concurrency issues, and could Cursor build this project within no time? Who knows).
There are always web application product ideas. For a more interesting one, I encourage you to check web4me.org (why do they not make it open-source?).
You will need to create a config.ini file in the ./melodyhub directory, the format is
[Django]
Secret: <generate a random secret>
# Generate the GoogleOAuth2 key (client_id) and secret at https://console.cloud.google.com
# You will need to search for OAuth and go to the "Credentials" section
# For the redirecting URL, if you are doing local testing, put
# http://127.0.0.1:8000/complete/google-oauth2/
# http://localhost:8000/complete/google-oauth2/
[GoogleOAuth2]
client_id: <your OAuth client id>
client_secret: <your OAuth secret>
[musicplay]
title=MelodyHub Main Page
users=@andrew.cmu.edu
Then, run the following command to create a new virtual env and install the dependencies.
python3 -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
You will also need to make sure the redis service is running on port 6379. An easy way to check is simply running
redis-cli -p 6379 ping
in your terminal, and if redis is running on port 6379, you will see
PONG
If not, an easy way to quickly install and run is to use docker:
docker pull redis
docker run -d --name my-redis -p 6379:6379 redis
Then, run
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
And you are good to go.
Citation: The basic ideas of the WebSocket implementation of the ListenTogether room was inspired by the WebSocket codes provided in the course and by a project on GitHub called synphony (https://github.com/alan9262/synphonymusicweb). However, we got the idea of the ListenTogether Room by ourselves. The functionalities are very different and we also wrote substantially different codes.