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I've been looking through online playlist servers and wondering: Why shouldn't I host something like this as a static website? After looking around and not finding any tool that generates this, I'm considering making it myself, shouldn't be too hard.

I don't really need any features that require server-side processing, and static hosting would essentially reduce the cost to zero, for the amount of storage and bandwidth I would make of it (as well as possibly making it a bit faster).



I guess it's persistence.

You want to remember playlists across machines? no longer static You want to modify song info / update cover art? no longer static

But gosh a static music player would be incredibly fast. Put it up on gh-pages and watch it fly!


Create playlists as machine readable, version them, inject them into IPFS [1] for public consumption.

[1] https://ipfs.io/


You have a very good idea there. Generate json files with music files metadata and you are well on your way.




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