LyricallyChallenged is a lyric-based Rails app and iOS app to search for songs. Each song can be played via a Spotify widget and is presented with full lyrics and details on why that song was chosen.
Recent research indicates that lyric-based recommendation systems are 12.6 times more effective than random recommendations, and may offer better recommendations than collaborative filtering, especially, "within small musical niches".
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Visit the LyricallyChallenged main page and search for songs by keyword(s)
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Each song is displayed with a Spotify widget and full lyrics
The site is available live on Heroku
In your terminal, navigate to where you want to place the file:
git clone https://github.com/FridaSjoholm/lyrically-challenged.git2. Include dotenv gem in your gem file (look at https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv for instructions)
This is what our .env file looks like, with the empty strings replaced with API keys.
SPOTIFY_API_OAUTH_KEY = ""
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID = ""
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET = ""
MUSIC_GRAPH_API_KEY = ""
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "".json- The GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS will be a path file to a json file in the root of your app.
- Navigate to the project
- Run bundle to install gems
- Start the rails server
cd lyricallychallenged
bundle
rails s🎉 🎉 Yay! Your site will be live at http://localhost:3000/
See our presentation deck here This project was created in our 19th week at Dev Bootcamp, and was built using Rails, HTML/CSS, and Javascript. We used the Spotify, MusicGraph, api.ai, MetroMix, and Google Natural Language APIs.
If you are interested in improving or adding new awesome features to LyricallyChallenged, please feel free to submit an issue or a pull request!