Music Streaming and Distribution Mobile Platform

Client Requirements

Client is owner of a web and mobile electronic music streaming audio and video platform that caters to DJs, emerging artists and music producers / creators looking to promote and sell tracks online.

The requirement was to build a music streaming platform with following features:

• Easy-to-create playlists
• Instant streaming
• Innovative yet uncluttered navigation
• Prompt playback response
• Sharing, listening to tracks through social networking
• Exclusive interface page design for every normal user or fan
• Creating artist profiles, track lists, genres and search criteria
• Mobile user interface that allows easier user navigation

Solution

A platform was built with support for the latest Android versions with the following features:

• Prefetching - Initially the track used to take time to play instantly. Prefetching prompted instant playback. For example, if you played one track on the platform, three other tracks got pre-fetched
• HLS Streaming - HTTP Live Streaming or HLS for streaming to widest range of mobile devices. Another advantage, HLS can be deployed using most HTTP servers and commercial streaming servers like Adobe FMS
• Network and buffering were considered, their implications on mobile battery usage was also considered while creating platform
• An Events/Promo tab for users to catch up with their favorite artist and DJ
• A daily rotation format allowing users to check new tracks out
• A Featured Artist section to promote new artists

Results

• Client testifies to their most popular features run 51% faster now
• Over 5 million daily visitors on the platform
• The platform has recorded 50 million unique users till date