Music Streaming App

High-Performance Media Delivery using ImageKit CDN

Overview

A full-stack music streaming platform designed for performance. It features secure audio upload, custom playback controls, and metadata handling, with a strong focus on optimized media delivery for end-users.

Core Features

  • Optimized Delivery: Integrated ImageKit CDN to handle media delivery, reducing load times by serving assets from geographically distributed edge locations.
  • Secure Media Management: Audio upload system with metadata handling (Tags, Artist, Cover Art) stored in MongoDB.
  • Access Control: Implemented permissions to ensure only authorized users can upload or modify streaming parameters.
  • Responsive Player: A custom React-based audio player with wave visualization and full playback controls.

Technical Challenge

Bandwidth Efficiency: Serving high-quality MP3 files directly from a Node.js server causes high latency and server costs.

Solution: Offloaded media delivery to ImageKit CDN. This ensures that the main server only handles metadata and Auth, while the heavy files are served via optimized image/media delivery networks.

The 60-Second Pitch

"I built a music streaming application using Node.js and Express to understand media handling at scale. I focused on performance by integrating ImageKit CDN, which optimized our media delivery significantly. This project helped me master handling large binary files, multi-part form data uploads, and integrating third-party storage APIs into a MERN ecosystem."