Pinata is a media storage service for NFTs based on IPFS, but you can use it to host Bemuse songs as well.
- Its free plan gives you 1 GB of storage.
- Its paid plan costs $0.15/GB/mo.
This guide assumes that you have prepared your song for online play in Bemuse. Your song folder should contain a
bemuse-song.json
file at this point.Upload the song
In Pinata Pinmanager, in Files tab, click Upload > Folder.
![notion image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F22bc1aa6-facd-4511-8df4-efbde1584be2%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=89c2bf12-8be6-49ff-985a-eb9ec758d838&cache=v2)
After selecting a folder, enter the folder name and click Upload.
![notion image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fb343beb7-ea21-41fb-8a3b-21edbd917eba%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=93ac721e-32bb-462a-8918-a643c93937c1&cache=v2)
Getting the Bemuse song URL
Once uploaded, click on the uploaded folder. It will take you to the content gateway.
![notion image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F75cd9247-06d6-4276-b70c-35afe14ddb07%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=d2f727b6-e525-4318-b4d6-19ec46797418&cache=v2)
You will arrive at an URL like this and see an IPFS folder listing. Click on bemuse-song.json.
![https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmQeuRUTsUqoh8bbWgz7JhuW9y1rgg2RabaqVF3mp19sLV](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fc8486afa-3c57-47e4-996d-ccdceb406817%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=d4730b68-e82e-4f55-866a-bb517598b833&cache=v2)
You will see the song metadata.
![https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmQeuRUTsUqoh8bbWgz7JhuW9y1rgg2RabaqVF3mp19sLV/bemuse-song.json](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F78d94048-094b-48dd-8aaa-d5e92cfcf25c%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=6e1f92a9-16a3-4b2f-9916-880b31a7a368&cache=v2)
In the URL bar, change
gateway.pinata.cloud
to dweb.link
and press Enter. You will end up in a URL that looks like this:https://bafybeibcmr3pqnqkqhc5rzf3m3rcnwmv3sx3kn6abga3y6nq7vejo3lvci.ipfs.dweb.link/bemuse-song.json