Laid Back VJ

Watch all your favorite music videos that you didn't know existed

Idea

• I listen to a lot more music than I watch music videos, but sometimes I want to watch music videos but it's hard to find my favorite songs music videos
• Using a few different sources (lastfm, spotify) do a look up on Youtube and queue up a bunch of videos to watch

Routes

• /lastfm/:userid/year: show users videos from the past year
• /lastfm/:userid/month: show users videos from the past month
• /lastfm/:userid/recent: show users most recent videos
• /lastfm/:userid/artists/week: show videos from your favorite artist from the past week
• /lastfm/:userid/artists/month: show videos from your favorite artist from the past month
• /lastfm/:userid/artists/three-month: show videos from your favorite artist from the past three months
• /lastfm/:userid/artists/year: show videos from your favorite artist from the past year
• /lastfm/:userid/recommended: show users recommended videos based on their history
• /lastfm/:userid/friends: show the user's friends videos
• /lastfm/:userid: show the users videos using all of their history

Internal

• /api/lastfm/user/:userId/: JSON response of the users lastfm data
• /api/lastfm/friends/:userId/: JSON response of the user's friends
• /api/spotify/user: JSON response of the users spotify data, if logged in

Roadmap

• Integrate LastFm initially
• Spotify after
• Users can rate videos so actual videos show instead of lyric videos

Future Ideas

• Make categories of music videos to choose from based on your library
• Based on popularity, rare videos -- based on scrobbles or youtube watches?
• Genres
• Last month scrobble videos
• Last year scrobbles

APIS

• Lastfm
• Spotify

Spotify API Endpoints

• https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-users-top-artists-and-tracks/
• https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-users-saved-tracks/
• https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-list-new-releases/
• https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/library-endpoints/
• https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/track-endpoints/

Resources

• Playlistbuddy allows you to make youtube playlists from a Spotify playlist
• Prioritize Vevo videos SO
• Create youtube playlists on the fly link
• Youtube Iframe events

Inspiration

• Shout out to Shelby.tv

Todos

• Typescript to check all files, fe and be
• Webpack to pack frontend files and backend files to behave as normal
• Make spotify and lastfm images smaller
• On initial page load make experience so user can authenticate via lastfm or Spotiy or just watch the most recently released music videos https://github.com/farzaa/Spotify-Login-Button-
• Cache users videos and serve if it didn't change
• Add viewing limit for users to not use up all API calls
• Add interstitial if a user watches > than a number of videos
• Add in ability for a user to sign up and get their own API token to watch videos