ZinZirconium

Jango. It's a music streaming service. No it's not Spotify. Yes I know you've never heard of Jango.

So I spent the past few months scraping metadata for every song on Jango Radio and put it in a database and made it searchable. I built a search tool which includes the kind of features that only a nerd would want like search by ID and search by URL.

https://jango-index.ml/

I used Bash and Btrfs for the backend scraper. I used PHP and SQLite for the frontend search.

https://jango-index.ml/src/

I'm not interested in monetizing what I did. I wouldn't be interested in a marketing campaign to raise the notoriety of Jango Radio to the point that you would notice it exists either.

I'm aware that my project looks like crap to web design obsessed marketing posers who pretend to code.

I happen to enjoy coding and I did a coding project. I know coding is an intrinsically valueless endeavor. I did it anyway.

Jango. It's internet radio like Pandora except it's not Pandora.

Earlier this year I was distraught to discover that certain obscure songs I wanted to hear again had mysteriously disappeared from Jango song search.

Then chroma virus lockdown happened and work became slow at the day job.

So I spent the next few months of nights and weekends building my own song search that searches Jango the way I want. It finds everything including the obscure stuff that mysteriously disappeared. I managed to duplicate the functionality of Jango song search while adding additional search methods Jango doesn't provide like reverse search of an audio file URL.

https://jango-index.ml/

I wrote the whole thing in Bash and PHP using SQLite.

https://jango-index.ml/src/

Searching 2.5 million songs presented a challenge which I was glad to meet.