Music Remedy: Create Custom Playlists for Music Therapy
Project Overview
Music therapy is used to improve cognitive brain functions like memory, regulate mood, improve the quality of sleep, managing stress and it can even help with depression. This was developed with 2 other students at the Hack The North hackathon. Users can log in to the app using their Spotify credentials where the app then has access to the user's Spotify data. As the users navigate through the app, they are asked to select what their goal for music therapy is and in the end, they have custom playlists targeting these areas as a form of music therapy.
My Contribution
This was arguably my favorite hackathon project due to the amount I could contribute and it felt very flushed out by the end of the hackathon weekend. I've also never worked with the Spotify API before so being able to use its sign up features, getting user data, creating playlists from this data was incredibly interesting to me. Here are some things I specifically helped implement:
- worked with the other develop to create starter files using EJS, NodeJS, and ExpressJS and getting the user sign in authentication working
- create the Home, Categories, and Playlist pages
- connected the backend and frontend to be able to display information in a user-friendly manner
Goals & Objectives
In the designing stages, we had some ideas for what we wanted the final product to be:
- easy sign up process and make sure of secure sign in with Spotify account
- straight forward process to state what kind of therapy is needed
- be able to download songs that would hopefully provide some sort of therapeutic relief for whatever the user is going through
