Audio Streaming App Development

Team composition:
2 Backend engineers
2 Front-end engineers
1 QA
1 PM
1 UX/UI

System structure:
Cloud server
iOS application
Android application

Timeline:
7 month

Industry:
Music

Setting Off Audio Streaming App Development

The customer, a publishing agency with 10-20k daily listeners, approached us to order mobile app development. The request was to build audio streaming app with a splendid user experience that will create new monetization channels and improve the existing ones.

The mobile audio app development was aimed to be a platform for generating, categorization, storing, and providing non-musical audio content for freemium and paid users. It should have elements of a social network, advertisement platform, and workspace. On top of these, it required to be dressed in a pretty-looking and intuitive UI/UX design.

One of our core areas of expertise is we found media data processing is great to use in advanced media streaming software development. This includes DRM processing, storage management, and live streaming. It connects content creators and content consumers in one ecosystem. The solution is applicable to live streaming platform development and music app development as well.

Project's Main Technical Challenges

Implementation of the copyright protection method for audio books (DRM).
Implementation of secure and reliable audio records storage, since the risk of unique content loss was obviously critical for the client.

Benefits of Creating an Audio Streaming Application

The developed system comprises several interfaces that connect different types of users, backend servers, and media servers into one digital ecosystem. There were a number of special services integrated into the professional audio streaming software development solution.

After some scope optimization, the solution fit a reasonable budget that the client allocated to make audio streaming app. The app was developed and released as a fully functional audio streaming platform MVP with elements of the social network, freemium mode, and workspace for content creators. A highly customized audio player was implemented in the application.

Special attention was paid to the data backup smart system. Taking into account the data volume was not a trivial task. Due to our rich experience in working with huge volumes of video data, our engineers successfully solved this challenge.

Providing reliable copyright protection (DRM) for the content is essential for the modern media business. Also, it’s a matter of top importance when the task is to develop audio streaming app. After some discussion with the client on how to make audio streaming app be secure, we decided to go with a standard scheme, which is a built-in media server. We also kept in mind the possibility of moving to our own scheme based on asymmetric encryption in the later stages of development that are currently at the planning stage.