Rhythm-Edge: Music Streaming Platform

Abstract

In Today’s fast-paced world, individuals often grapple with emotional stress, social isolation, and the lack of creative outlets. Music has long been recognized as a universal language that transcends barriers, offering emotional relief and cognitive stimulation. Rhythm-Edge is a modern, responsive, and scalable music streaming platform designed to bring personalized music experiences to users. Inspired by platforms like Spotify and JioSaavn, it delivers seamless real-time streaming, intelligent recommendations, and an engaging listening environment. The platform not only serves as a source of entertainment but also promotes mental wellness and a sense of community through music discovery and shared musical journeys.

Introduction

Music has become an essential part of daily life, offering emotional support, stress relief, and a sense of connection, particularly in the context of rising mental health challenges and digital fatigue. While mainstream streaming platforms provide easy access to music, they often lack personalization, inclusivity, and support for independent or regional artists.

Rhythm-Edge is introduced as a web-based music streaming platform addressing these gaps. It offers personalized recommendations, diverse genre exploration, playlist management, and intuitive interfaces for both listeners and creators. The platform emphasizes emotional and creative well-being, fostering connection, inclusivity, and ease of use.

Literature Survey: Research highlights the impact of streaming platforms on music discovery, revenue models, personalization, blockchain-based royalty transparency, user satisfaction, and backend efficiency. Studies also emphasize the importance of recommendation algorithms, dataset availability, and modern web technologies in improving user experience.

Methodology: Rhythm-Edge follows a client-server architecture:

• Frontend: Built with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery for UI rendering, responsive design, dynamic interactions, and playlist management.

• Backend: PHP and MySQL handle authentication, business logic, database operations, and media streaming.

• Core features include landing page, user authentication, personalized home page, music player interface, search functionality, song and artist pages, and playlist management.

Scope of Research: Focused on designing a desktop-oriented music streaming prototype with real-time audio playback, playlist management, and secure user authentication.

Future Scope: Includes AI-based recommendations, lyrics synchronization, offline playback, voice assistant integration, social sharing, cloud data syncing, multi-language support, and live artist interactions.

Results: Rhythm-Edge successfully delivers a functional, user-friendly music streaming platform with:

• Responsive music player with full controls.

• Real-time search and personalized recommendations.

• Smooth navigation, low latency, and responsive design.

• Playlist and library management with real-time updates.

• Efficient database integration and secure session handling.

Conclusion

This project successfully demonstrates the development of a functional prototype of a web-based music streaming platform that replicates core features found in leading services like Spotify. By integrating user authentication, dynamic song browsing, real-time playback controls, and playlist management, the system offers a streamlined and interactive user experience tailored for desktop web environments. The use of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL ensures a responsive frontend and a reliable backend capable of handling essential data operations. Through usability testing and performance evaluations, the platform\'s effectiveness in delivering consistent streaming, cross-browser compatibility, and user-friendly navigation was validated. While the current implementation lays the foundation for a full-scale music streaming service, future enhancements such as AI-driven recommendations, mobile app development, real-time lyrics, and social features hold significant potential for expanding functionality and user engagement.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Prof. Shweta Kambare, Varun Rajguru, Pranav Sahasrabuddhe, Rahul Lade, Shraddha Suryawansh, Ashitosh Wankhede. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.