How AuraPlay works

AuraPlay is a free app that turns the weather outside your window into music. It reads your local conditions — sunshine, cloud, rain, wind, temperature — translates them into a listening mood, and finds matching songs across YouTube, Jamendo, and Audius. No account and no subscription required.

Why the weather?

Most people already let the weather choose their music without realising it. A grey morning quietly asks for something slower; the first clear day of spring makes upbeat songs feel right. AuraPlay just makes that instinct explicit — instead of scrolling a library trying to guess what fits, you let the sky outside decide.

The four steps

Sense. With your permission, AuraPlay reads your location once and pulls live conditions from OpenWeatherMap — temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, cloud cover and visibility. Your coordinates are used for that single lookup and never leave your browser.

Map. A deterministic rules engine turns those raw numbers into a listening mood: an energy level, a sense of how bright or melancholy the music should feel, a tempo range, and a handful of genres. The same weather always produces the same mood — there is no black-box algorithm guessing at your taste.

Discover. Those genres are matched against music-tag charts to surface songs that genuinely belong to the mood, then deduplicated and ranked so you are not handed the same three obvious tracks every time.

Play. Everything streams directly from YouTube, Jamendo, and Audius — three sources that are free to listen to — so there is nothing to install and no service to connect.

Free, and a little private

AuraPlay is free because the whole pipeline is free. Weather data, music discovery and playback all run on services that do not charge listeners, so there is no subscription and no paywall. There is no login either: the app does not need an account to work, and your location is only ever used to fetch the current conditions.

The best way to understand AuraPlay is to try it once. Let it read your actual weather and build a soundtrack for the conditions you are in right now.