Choose music for me

[Neitanod]

One person on one device connects to a peer on another device. Let's say: a boyfriend in his room connects at night to his girlfriend who is across town.
Then, one of them can build up a playlist for the other, or both of them, to listen while they chat.
It would be cool if they both could choose songs from both media libraries and share them with streaming or a file transfer in the background.
Also, playback controls like ff, pause, play, etc, (except volume, probably) should be in sync so they are all the time listening to the same parts of the same songs while they chat.

 

[rajajihai]

Can you please explain more about the requirement? Also what about the licensing of the songs, as per copyright act we are not suppose to share music with other what we purchased.

But sounds interesting, we can think more on this and can achieve by other way around.

Rajeev

 

[Neitanod]

It should work just like a regular audio player, but two of them should play in sync remotely.
Both user's media libraries should be available for reproduction, using streaming when the song being played is owned by the other party.
I think that if the app don't let you keep the shared song after listening to it, it would be just like sharing over the phone (in a traditional phone/audio conversation with music in the background), or being phisically side to side and listening to just one device. You make your friend listen to the song, but she has to buy it to play it again afterwards.

 

[rajajihai]

So just to understand it more:
It an musical app where you can add your friends to listen a song. Once your friend responded on that request so he/she will be able to listen that song sync from your device. And so you can create a listner group where you can enjoy the music in a group too.

I think it's nice idea but only challenges what I can see here is parallel sync, it always depends on the internet speed you or your friends are using. And how to sync may be once then approve then we need to load cache music file to play and then remove. Need to think a lot.
Rajeev

 

[Neitanod]

Yes, it's not trivial, I know, but it could become popular.
The connection, I think, could require a server to let the peers reach each other, given that firewalls and NATs (WiFi routers) will probably exist between them preventing a direct connection.

 

[rajajihai]

It seems interesting for me let's start scoping out this requirement via email. You can reach me at rsinha.rajeev@gmail.com.

Please scope out the requirement and let's start with High level and low level design document.

Regards,
Rajeev