{"slug": "rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and", "title": "RockPlayer: Building a Modern Music Player with Angular, ASP.NET Core, Redis, and YouTube", "summary": "A developer built RockPlayer, a rock music player using Angular 22, ASP.NET Core, Redis, and YouTube integration. The project is documented in an eight-part series covering architecture, adapter patterns, caching, and API development.", "body_md": "Hello everyone!\n\nAfter publishing my Machine Learning with ML.NET series, I decided to turn the recommendation model into a complete application.\n\nIn this new series, we build RockPlayer, a rock music player that combines modern software architecture, ASP.NET Core, Angular 22, Redis, and YouTube integration.\n\nEach article focuses on a different part of the project:\n\n🎵 1. Introducing RockPlayer\n\nAn overview of the project, its goals, and the overall architecture.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/introducing-rockplayer](https://devfullstack.net/blog/introducing-rockplayer)\n\n🔌 2. Adapters: Isolating the YouTube Provider\n\nUsing the Adapter pattern to decouple the application from the YouTube integration.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/adapters-isolating-the-youtube-provider](https://devfullstack.net/blog/adapters-isolating-the-youtube-provider)\n\n⚡ 3. No Database: Caching Lookups with Redis\n\nUsing Redis to cache search results instead of storing external data in a database.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/no-database-caching-lookups-with-redis](https://devfullstack.net/blog/no-database-caching-lookups-with-redis)\n\n🅰️ 4. Angular 22 in Practice\n\nApplying modern Angular 22 features to build the user interface.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/angular-22-in-practice](https://devfullstack.net/blog/angular-22-in-practice)\n\n🚀 5. Building the RockPlayer API\n\nBuilding the API that orchestrates the application.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/building-the-rockplayer-api](https://devfullstack.net/blog/building-the-rockplayer-api)\n\n▶️ 6. The YouTube Adapter: Finding and Playing the Song\n\nImplementing the YouTube integration to search for and play songs.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/the-youtube-adapter-finding-and-playing-the-song](https://devfullstack.net/blog/the-youtube-adapter-finding-and-playing-the-song)\n\n🎧 7. RockPlayer in Angular 22: Onboarding\n\nSetting up the Angular application and organizing the project structure.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/rockplayer-in-angular-22-onboarding](https://devfullstack.net/blog/rockplayer-in-angular-22-onboarding)\n\n🎸 8. RockPlayer: Putting It All Together\n\nBringing all the components together into a complete application.\n\n[https://devfullstack.net/blog/rockplayer-putting-it-all-together](https://devfullstack.net/blog/rockplayer-putting-it-all-together)\n\nI hope this series is useful for developers interested in software architecture, .NET, and Angular.\n\nSee you there!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/rafael_arantes_9833461dce/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-aspnet-core-redis-and-youtube-40n2", "published_at": "2026-07-27 00:44:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 00:59:30.540658+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["RockPlayer", "Angular", "ASP.NET Core", "Redis", "YouTube"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rockplayer-building-a-modern-music-player-with-angular-asp-net-core-redis-and.jsonld"}}