A hand-built API serves all song metadata — titles, artists, albums, durations, and file paths. Every request is optimized for speed with proper JSON responses.

High-quality MP3 files are streamed using HTTP range requests — enabling instant playback and smooth seeking without downloading the entire file first.

Cover art, artist images, and thumbnails are served with proper content-type headers and aggressive browser caching for lightning-fast load times.

Lyrics are fetched in real-time per track, parsed and synced with playback timing for a karaoke-style scrolling experience.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing configured to let the Netlify frontend securely talk to the EC2 backend without exposing sensitive endpoints.

Songs, covers, and artist assets organized in a clean directory hierarchy — categorized by artist and album for maintainable delivery.

Static assets served with cache-control headers — reducing redundant requests, cutting bandwidth costs, and speeding up repeat visits.