rhythMind

A web app that plays music according to your emotional needs and helps you recharge your mental health with an altogether new and different listening experience.

What it Does

It provides a well earned respite and relief to the tired mind and soul through music and a variety of proven meditative reliefs and stress busting techniques to anybody who is stressed out or feeling negative about something. We have also tried to make an immersive listening experience with soothing landscapes and build up situational stories that are meant to release stress and feel transformative. There is also a friendly bot to answer your questions and a blog section featuring related music therapy articles.

Demo link

https://rhythmind.herokuapp.com/

How to start ? 🎪

• If you don't have git on your machine, install it.

Fork this repository 🚀

• Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Clone the repository 🏁

Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.

Open a terminal and run the following git command:

git clone "url you just copied" where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.

For example:

git clone https://github.com/Swatilekha-Roy/rhythMind.git

How to run ? 🛴

After cloning the repo

• Run npm install in the terminal.
• Install dependencies
• Run npm install -g nodemon (optional, but recommended)
• Move on and run node app.js
• This will start the project automatically on localhost:3000.

Technologies Used

We utilized various technologies ranging from animation tools, web development tools, scripting languages and multiple APIs to build ‘rythMind’.

• Front end languages: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, AJAX
• Front end framework: Bootstrap to design the user interface (UI)
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Spotify API: To fetch and manage the relevant catalogs about artists, tracks and playlists.
• Microsoft Azure: To create a conversational, friendly echo chatbot for rythMind which engages in a friendly conversation with the user helping him/her/them talk about their emotions and guiding them towards a calming experience by suggesting relevant songs, playlists, meditation or breathing exercises.
• echoAR: Incorporated echoAR's 3D models for providing a visually rich and engrossing environment to users.
• Pexels API: To fetch images corresponding to the emotions displayed on our web app presently.
• Socket.io: To build multiple listening rooms, each dedicated to a particular feeling or emotion with songs playing according to the mood of the room. Users in the same room can also chat with each other while listening to music.
• Voiceflow: Used HACKNITR 2.0 sponsor resources for developing a comprehensive voice channel bot.
• Constant Contact email marketing tools: To set up a newsletter service for our subscribed users.
• Trained the Microsoft Azure chatbot further for more personalized conversations.
• Making the web app a lot more responsive so as to allow easy viewing and good UX for every screen size.
• Adding all the animations with CSS and JS to the landscape pages.