Remix Galaxy is more than an online music store. It’s sort of a fusion between iTunes and Garage Band. It’s a web community that offers the world’s largest inventory of music in multi-track stem format for remixing and the tools you need to customize or remix your favorite songs.
A stem is an audio file that contains a particular element of a song such as the vocals or a particular instrument; these stems are the playthings of Remix Galaxy.
After another web development company was struggling to deliver what the client wanted, Remix turned to The Nerdery to create an API call for Remix users to purchase MP3s not owned by Remix. The Nerdery figured out a reliably crash-free solution to this using a Java server on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3. It’s technical. Let’s rock.
Remix Galaxy users can now create cool music mixed to their liking, show it off, get feedback from other members and leverage the knowledge base of other Remix users to learn more about remixing. The Nerdery used PHP, Flash, ActionScript 3 and Java for the audio processing, and moved the site to EC2. So, now we have the site on three EC2 instances of varying sizes; one for the Java audio processor; one for the database, and one for the site.
Got two audio stems and a microphone? Make your own kind of music.