Hosting Bemuse songs on Pinata

Pinata is a media storage service for NFTs based on IPFS, but you can use it to host Bemuse songs as well.

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.

The data will be pinned on the IPFS network, which means that people can easily download the song and re-seed it, leading to faster download.

Once uploaded you cannot change its content. You have to re-upload, which means the URL will be different.

If the content on IPFS is not popular (only available on a single node), it can be very slow and take quite a long time to load. Without peers, peer-to-peer is useless.

In Pinata Pinmanager, in Files tab, click Upload > Folder.

After selecting a folder, enter the folder name and click Upload.

Once uploaded, click on the uploaded folder. It will take you to the content gateway.

You will arrive at an URL like this and see an IPFS folder listing. Click on bemuse-song.json.

You will see the song metadata.

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