Hey Everyone 👋!

I am Rayyan Seliya (AKA rayyan_seliya123 on IRC and RayyanSeliya on GitHub), a prefinal year student at Indian Institute of Information Technology Agartala, India, studying Computer Science. I was thrilled to be selected as a contributor in the C4GT (Code For Govt Tech) 2025 program under the MetaBrainz Foundation. My project focused on integrating music streaming from Internet Archive into BrainzPlayer. It was mentored by Kartik Ohri (lucifer on IRC) and Nicolas Pelletier (monkey on IRC).

Project Overview

ListenBrainz has a number of music discovery features that use BrainzPlayer to facilitate track playback. BrainzPlayer (BP) is a custom React component in ListenBrainz that uses multiple data sources to search and play a track. As of now, it supports Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Funkwhale as music services. It would be useful for BrainzPlayer to support the Internet Archive, which hosts a vast collection of digitized recordings from physical releases of the early 20th century, including 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings. Each recording comes with audio streaming and metadata web services that can be used to retrieve metadata automatically and embed a player in ListenBrainz using BrainzPlayer.

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