I'm building an audio library with Hugo and Internet Archive

[iaeiou]

Hi there,

I’m working on an experiment bringing together Hugo and Internet Archive to provide a “rock solid, lightweight and ethical solution to serve audio files”.

Demo

• Visit the Lou Reed Bootlegs Collection, and see this collection of 2000+ hiphop tracks featuring 2pac, Kendrick Lamar and many others.
• The focus is now on audio files, but Videos and PDF files are also supported

Main features

• unlimited storage and unlimited bandwith
• Total running cost: $0.91 /month
  ( It can even be entirely free using a subdomain such as .netlify.app, .gitlab.io, github.io or .frama.io)
• built to scale: media files are served by the non-profit Internet Archive, which handles smoothly more than 5M daily users. The code is hosted by the rock-solid & lightning-fast Netlify CDN.
• careful UX, based on a stack respecting users, creators, and devs (see below for details)
• future-proof: It’s all built just with Hugo, Git and data from archive.org.

No other requirements:

• no database
• no npm
• no security update
• no server maintainance

See the full presentation for details
I’m not familiar with release announcements, especially in English, if you have any suggestions for improvement, I’d appreciate them.

[damien]

That’s interesting. So if I have my own server (hosting Hugo static files/my blog) and domain, I first upload my audio and video to archive.org, then using a shortcode I can embed my audio/video in my Hugo posts?

[iaeiou]

Yes, you can use Shortcodes to embed a file / a folder, or use the “automated workflow”

If you are familiar with the terminal, you can use the CLI to batch upload to archive.org