OK I know I said I wouldn't do anything big on code.org but I don't think this is super big.

[WUT] Music was a music player made on App Lab. Before it got deleted along with everything else on my account, it supported a modern layout with around 8 songs. It featured a basic start/stop function, skipping and restarting the song, and (on one song) realtime lyrics. I decided to remake that on Game Lab.

The Game Lab version is different, since each song is shown in a list. It also doesn't feature cover art, and instead uses a solid color because if it gets deleted, I don't want to have to re-add every single sprite.

Code.org is notorious for being slow, so I built it to keep itself fast. Every song is preloaded. Songs in the list that aren't visible onscreen are culled out. The gradient background automatically adjusts its complexity to the frame rate. It's not like it'll matter, since all the important stuff is measured by the exact millisecond, and not by frame.

It's super easy to change around the songs that appear in the app. The list of songs is stored as an array of objects, and the files for each song is stored in a separate app in case this app gets the hammer. Every song has its own play count as well, so you can see which songs are popular.

The songs that are featured in this app are all available in the Dance Party feature, so I'm about 90% sure that they're fine for non-commercial use on code.org.

I'm also planning on porting it to KA to test the waters there, except without the playcount feature.

https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/C4VsEOhlXmRIeeYLiJMO3s9ZXTTk_Vym4HNOrJKHdgc/

    aleast theses are in my playlist

    The secret to enjoying CDO at least a little bit is making something that doesn't have keyvalues.
    Like a game.
    People can and will hack it, but it won't matter because it won't affect anyone else.

      took a solid minute before the music started

      [WUT] Adam Oh so you got into this too? Me and Letti did something like that a little while back with a backend you can even load songs at specific time points if you don't mind the little hitch in waiting... along with being able to fetch song info and duration from the backend as well... i have 2 iterations the first is basically what you have with less fancy UI, and the 2nd is basically defunct now, i might fix it up in due time

        ackvonhuelio i mean it doesn't matter that much since it's just the number of times a song was played. someone could set it to an arbitrarily high or low value and it wouldn't matter because it's not going to impair the function of the app

          cdo isnt the best when it comes to sound, i was barley able to actually get it working in my more complex games

          Add a song called ??? and then rickroll people :rickroll:

          Update: Mouse controls! You can click on a song once to scroll to it, click on it again to play/stop. There's also a scrollbar on the side! It doesn't work perfectly, but it still works nonetheless. (I do wish I could get it to work perfectly though...)

          Also another update that isn't coming to the KA version: LiveListen! You can see how many people are currently listening to a specific song by looking at the headphones icon next to the play count.

          Welp looks like it's not coming to Khan Academy. You can't play any sound you want, only the allowed ones.

          i have just a few songs that might be a nice addition to the list. they're a little different but we all like some variation right? :) anyways, here's the list.

          Curses - The Crane Wives
          I Hear a Symphony - Cody Fry
          Passing Through - Kaden Mackay
          Home - JVKE
          Sunroof - Nicky Youre

          I tried to get a variation of artists so there's a few different feels to all of these. Great job on the music app btw! It's really polished!

          ackvonhuelio I don't feel like remaking 11 songs with basic sound effects.

          And why do you have to compare everything I make to an already-existing service? I know you don't believe in the definition of coexistence, but come on man, you could at least be a bit supportive of what I'm deciding to put my time into.

            ok ok my bad.
            good job putting effort into a solid recreation of spotify.

              New songs added:

              • Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
              • The Sign - Ace of Base
              • Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
              • Starships - Nicki Minaj

              can you add doja by central cee

              [WUT] Adam hey quick tip for downloading music from yt. you can install an app called YouTube-DL to download videos from youtube. and you also download it as an audio file as well. since you run windows, i have a batch script i wrote that can make the process a little easier when downloading it as well if you want that.

                  bruh can you guys respect his app he just made it to play songs dont criticize the songs he adds or the way he adds it

                    ackvonhuelio Varrience and I, as he’s said in this post earlier, have practically already made a spotify in code.org, which even uses the Spotify API to search for songs… Unfortunately heroku and replit changed their pricing and TOS so I wasn’t able to host it.

                        Blockyheadman I'm good, it's not really that hard to add a song.

                        1. Search for the lyric video on YouTube (since there's none of the extra stuff they put in the music video)
                        2. Download it as MP3
                        3. Trim out any intros or outros
                        4. Rename it
                        5. Upload it to CDO
                        6. Make a new entry in the music array

                            person ong bro. if you don't like the selection just remix it, i specifically made it as easy as possible to change out what songs are available

                              [WUT] Adam I mean technically i have a working videoplayer now too i also learned that project assets are stored in regional servers like the actual load in links which is pretty interesting so when i get it to work probably the only people in my region will be able to load in the video... or at least that's the conclusion I've come to

                                im fine with the selection its just ack said

                                ackvonhuelio nicki minaj how could you

                                  Welp. Apparently the songs in Dance Lab can only be used in Dance Lab. Time for public domain songs!

                                  person They took it down for copyright infringement since I thought that since the songs were available in Dance Lab, you could use them anywhere on code.org. You can't.

                                      [WUT] Adam Did you use the mp3 url from Dance Lab or did you download them and import it into your project? When Varrience and I made our version of it we uploaded around 50 songs directly into the asset, most if not all of them being copyrighted...

                                      Edit: Just checked and it's exactly 50, how 'bout that

                                          Letti42 They were downloaded from YouTube and then imported. They did notice that each song was picked from Dance Lab, and in fact, here's their email:

                                          Hi Adam,

                                          Hannah here from the Code.org Customer Success team. I'm reaching out to let you know that your project [WUT] Music in Game Lab was taken down due to copyright infringement.

                                          I wanted to give some context behind why this project was taken down, and allow for you to provide any applicable documentation you may have.

                                          It's noted that the songs used in your project all come from Dance Party. Code.org went through many hoops to gain the rights to use those songs in Dance Party (think hundreds of Zoom calls, emails, messages, etc. with artists, producers, and more). With many (if not all) of the songs in Dance Party, Code.org was required to pay a fee to use the artist's music - thus securing our rights to utilize the music created by the artists.

                                          Within those agreements, came the specificity of where Code.org would utilize those songs. The use of these songs does not go outside of the Dance Party activity. That means that the songs within your project are violating our terms of service when it comes to copyrighted work.

                                          We wanted to allow you the opportunity to pass along any documentation stating that you've secured the rights to utilize these songs within your Game Lab project. If you have that documentation, please feel free to attach it to your response. Once we receive it, our teams will take a look and (if everything checks out) I will go ahead and unblock your project.

                                          If you don't have this documentation, unfortunately we won't be able to unblock your project.

                                          If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know!

                                          Best,
                                          Hannah
                                          Code.org Support

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