Sounds Like You is a microsite created for SXSW 2018, and the first project wherein Pandora let an outside company use data from the Music Genome Project. When users visit the beautifully-designed site, we use the qualities of their favorite songs (determined with a series of song choices) to compose a unique, custon song for them, which they can listen to almost immediately, and/or have emailed to themselves so that they can post it on social media.
Tech
NGINX for reverse proxy Expressjs web framework Mongoose (mongoDB ODM) for storing user data MySQL for song and stem data FFMPEG for editing together the audio and video Rubberband for pitch and tempo adjustment ImageMagick for processing artwork Chuck for procedurally generated tracks Microsoft Emotion API for face analysis Dropbox to manage the stem files. Headless linux with python management script Mailgun to send out the emails Gulp build system (concatenating, minifying, uglifying and optimizing assets) Sass pre-processor for compiling CSS JSPM for javascript package management Babel javascript compiler for ECMAScript Hammer for touch gesture support SVG.js for manipulating and animating SVG Three.js for WebGL visuals
