Music Machine

Music Machine is a Java server that plays music using a Spotify playlist, which contains a maximum of 5 tracks. A web frontend is provided which shows currently playing track and upcoming playlist.

Music Machine requires a Spotify Premium account to function.

During the playback of a song, anyone can use either a Android or iPhone client to vote for the next track to be added to the playlist. When the current song ends, the track with the most votes is added to the playlist. If the current playlist is less than 5 songs, the highest voted tracks are added in order to fill up the 5 slots.

Installation

Music Machine requires Java 6 JRE to be on the machine used for playback. A pre-built Java jar file is provided, so you don't need to build it yourself.

1. Download Java jar file

2. Open up a commandline in your OS of choice (cmd on Windows, Terminal.app on Mac, or xterm etc. on Linux)

3. Go to the directory where you downloaded the musicmachine.jar file

4. Type in the following, replacing [user] and [password] with your Spotify account username and password.

    java -jar musicmachine-1_0.jar -u [user] -p [password]
   

5. It should start up and print out something like

    Connected to 'A2.spotify.com./78.31.12.10:4070'
    Server started on [Music Machine URL]
   

6. Go to [Music Machine URL] in a web browser, ex. http://kite.local:6170

7. You should see something like the screenshot shown below

8. All done

Build

1. Install ANT

2. Open up a commandline in your OS of choice (cmd on Windows, Terminal.app on Mac, or xterm etc. on Linux)

3. Go to the directory where you downloaded the source code

4. Type in the following

    ant jar
   

5. All done

Screenshot