How to Make a Track on Soundloud

Project: SoundMood

Scope

You have just been hired as a consultant for Sound Inc. A brand new streaming music service. You have been tasked to create a webapp that can play songs based on how the user is feeling. Your manager has given you a deadline of one week to complete this project and has provided you with a wireframe for the webapp.

Project Criteria

Your Manager has laid out the following requirements for the project:

• This project must use the SoundCloud API
• The user must be able to input an array of moods and hear a song that reflects their mood
• The song title and artist must appear while the song is playing
• There must be a random button that will play a song based on a randomly chosen mood

Learning Objectives

By the end of this project the employee will be able to...

• interpret API documentation
• use basic API calls

References/Tools

• SoundCloud API Documentation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9vPoCOP7oY

Vocabulary

• API (Application Program Interface)
• Click Handler
• Documentation

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Instructions

You will notice that there are comments inside the script.js file that provide instructions for how components of this project should be made.

In order to make Soundmood functional you will need to complete the tasks below:

1) Fork this repo into your own CLoud9 workspace

2) Initialize the SoundCloud API client

1. Look up your 'client_id' in your old SoundCloud project, or...
2. Go to the SoundCloud API Documentation
3. Find Your Apps in the Soundcloud API documentation right side navigation
4. Get your API token!

3) Play a track

Play a track using the SoundCloud API (Reading the Soundcloud documentation will help you figure out how to play a track)

1. Read the SoundCloud documentation to figure out how to stream (or play) a track

                HTTP API GUIDE -> Playing Sounds ->  Streaming sounds                              

2. Use SC.stream to play a track

• Hint: you need to know something about the track, e.g. what's '12345' below?

                SC.stream('tracks/12345', function(player) {   player.play(); // Starts to play the sound   player.pause(); // Pauses the player   player.seek(time); // Seeks to the position in the song (in milliseconds)   player.currentTime(); // Returns the current position (in milliseconds)   player.setVolume(volume); // Sets the volume (from 0 to 1)   player.getVolume(); // Returns the current volume   player.on(event, handler); // Subscribes the handler to the given event });                              

• Read more here: SoundCloud Player API

4) Add click handlers

Add a click handler for the #go button -- make the #go button DO something by adding a click handler!

5) Find a track based on the user's mood and play it

Find a track based on the user's mood and play it -- make the click handler play a song based on the user's input!

1. Fill out the goClicked() function! It should:
2. Get the user's input from the #mood field
3. Call searchTracks(mood). * Hint: there are helper methods in script.js that you can use!
4. Fill out searchTracks(mood)
5. Look at your old code and/or read the API documentation to find SC.get
6. Fill out searchTracks() to find the track for the user's mood using SC.get
7. Make sure to console.log() the response from the API so you can see what it returned!
8. Get the track's id
9. Call playTrack(id)
10. BONUS: Update jumbotron #songtitle to display the song title
11. Fill out playTrack()
12. Make sure to keep track of the song you are playing by storing it in currentSong
13. Play the track for the given id

6) Randomization: Make the random button work!

1. Fill out the moodList array with 10 moods/emotions

• ex. 'happy', 'sad'

2. Add #random button click handler
3. Fill out randomClicked() + randomMood()

Bonus Criteria

Your Manager has offered a stipend a $500 for each of the bonus requirements listed below:

• Change the color of the jumbotron to match the user's mood
• Add Bootstrap typeahead to the #mood input field

How to Submit

The final code for this project must be submitted via our exit slip.

How to Make a Track on Soundloud

Source: https://githubhelp.com/helloskye/soundcloud-mood-project