The vision of OpenDJ is to solve this problem by applying open source principles to the music playlist of an event:

Curators can edit the playlist (sorting/grouping by genre, deleting) - they are like the maintainer of an open source project. They get more detailed information about a track (e.g. genre, bpm, danceability, number of likes/dislikes by users). There is no special skill needed to be curator, just a sense for music. Curators can also pre-listen to a track in the playlist.

The music is being played by a streaming provider, e.g. Spotify. OpenDJ is running in the internet and uses streaming provider APIs to execute the playlist on a local device (which might be connected to the PA system of a party location).

A prototype is up and running: www.opendj.io/demo You can add tracks by using the blue "Add" button. In the demo, tracks are skipped every 20s (they are not actually being played). And if the playlist is empty, it is out-filled with some example tracks.

Read the user stories in the requirements doc here

If you like the idea and want to contribute, welcome! We always need people helping with UX Design, Architecture, Design, Coding, Testing, Coding, Documentation etc. Please read the project charter if your are interested!

To see what is currently happening, please check out the github project page.