Ever wondered how Spotify works? This course can teach you how to make a legit music streaming site.

Music streaming can't get more personalized than this.
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Hey, aspiring Google or Microsoft engineers: how does adding a real, working Spotify clone to your portfolio sound?

Up your HTML, JavaScript, and PHP skills while creating your own music streaming service from scratch. This online course is the ultimate guide for aspiring software engineers and web developers (or super bored people looking to learn a new skill). The step-by-step curriculum takes you from beginner to advanced lessons, claiming to give you an end product that's a fully functional music streaming service.

Through 168 lectures and 15 courses, the instructor (a Microsoft software engineer himself) will guide you through the music streaming service building process, including setting up the server, designing a page to allow real users to sign up, creating the "now playing" bar and "music you may like" page, album and artist pages, and the user's personal playlist page.

Enroll and add a new skill to your resume here.

Topics Music

Leah Stodart
Leah Stodart
Senior Shopping Reporter

Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers and tests essential home tech like vacuums and TVs, plus eco-friendly hacks. Her ever-evolving experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.

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