Dcent Beats

Decentralised music using the Hypercore protocol.

Dcent Beats creates a database on top of hyperbeats.

Its main responsibilities are:

• Link to the hyperbeats
• Ensure all referenced hypercores are indexed to be rehosted
• Manage an index of music metadata

Install

npm i dcent-beats

Usage

See example.js

API

const dBeats = new DcentBeats(bee)

Create a new Dcent Beats instance, based on the passed-in Hyperbee.

const metaddata = await dBeats.getMetadata()

Get the metadata corresponding to this Dcent Beats song.

The metadata is an object:

{
  year, // Year of publishing
  title, // Song title
  artist, // Song artist
  durationSec, // Song duration in seconds
  version // internal version info ({ major, minor })
}

const beatsKey = await getBeatsKey()

Get the Hyper Beats key of this song (as buffer).