🎵 SoundStream – Music Streaming Backend

SoundStream is a Spotify-like backend application built using Spring Boot.
It models real-world music streaming concepts such as Songs, Artists, Albums, and Playlists, focusing on clean architecture, scalable REST APIs, and best practices with JPA/Hibernate.

This project is designed as a learning + portfolio project demonstrating production-grade backend patterns.

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📑 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Architecture
• Tech Stack
• Features
• Project Structure
• API Design Principles
• Application Setup
• API Endpoints
• Future Enhancements
• License

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📌 Overview

SoundStream provides RESTful APIs to manage music content:

• Songs belong to albums
• Songs can have multiple artists
• Artists can collaborate on multiple songs
• Playlists can contain songs from different albums and artists

The project emphasizes:

• DTO-based APIs (no entity exposure)
• Centralized exception handling
• ID-based relationships (no fragile name-based APIs)
• Clean service and repository layers
• Real-world Hibernate/JPA patterns

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🏗 Architecture

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| Client (Postman / Frontend) |
+------------------------------+
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              v
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| Spring Boot REST API (SoundStream) |
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              v
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| PostgreSQL Database |
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🧰 Tech Stack

• Backend: Spring Boot (Java 17)
• ORM: Spring Data JPA (Hibernate)
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Build Tool: Gradle
• API Testing: Postman
• Logging: SLF4J + Logback
• Containerization: Docker (planned)

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✨ Features

🎵 Songs

• Create songs using albumId and artistIds
• Fetch songs by ID
• Songs linked to albums and artists

🎤 Artists

• Create and manage artists
• Prevent duplicate artists (case-insensitive)
• Fetch artists with their songs

💿 Albums

• Create albums linked to artists
• Fetch albums and their songs

📃 Playlists

• Create playlists
• Add/remove songs from playlists
• Fetch playlists songs

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📂 Project Structure

src/main/java/org/soundstream
├── controller
├── service
│ ├── songs
│ └── artists
│ └── albums
│ └── playlists
├── repository
├── model
├── dto
│ ├── request
│ └── response
├── mapper
├── exception
├── enum_
└── config

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🔌 API Design Principles

• Versioned APIs: /api/v1/...
• DTO-based contracts
• No direct entity exposure
• Centralized exception handling using @ControllerAdvice
• Proper HTTP status codes
• ID-based relationships instead of name-based lookups

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▶ Application Setup

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/soundstream.git
cd soundstream

2️⃣ Configure Database

Use environment variables for credentials:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/soundstream
spring.datasource.username=${DB_USERNAME}
spring.datasource.password=${DB_PASSWORD}

3️⃣ Run the application

./gradlew bootRun

Application will start at:

http://localhost:8080

🔗 API Endpoints

Songs

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v1/songs	Create songs
GET	/api/v1/songs/{id}	Get songs by ID

Artists

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v1/artists	Create artists
GET	/api/v1/artists/{id}	Get artists by ID

Albums

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v1/albums	Create albums
GET	/api/v1/albums/{id}	Get albums by ID

Playlists

Method	Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v1/playlists	Create playlists
POST	/api/v1/playlists/{id}/songs/{songId}	Add songs to playlists
GET	/api/v1/playlists/{id}/songs	Get playlists songs

🚀 Future Enhancements

• Swagger / OpenAPI documentation
• Docker & docker-compose support
• Testcontainers for integration testing
• Role-based security (Spring Security)
• MapStruct for DTO mapping
• Load testing & N+1 query optimization
• Native image using GraalVM

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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