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There is an episode of Our Man in Japan with James May where he spends an admittedly short moment with the composer of some(all?) of these melodies. It's a surprisingly thoughtful process, he tries to capture the feeling of the station and area in a short motif. Some of these motifs can contain surprising musicality and complexity, despite being so short.
I love this :) Thanks very much for making it, it's elegantly designed. Since you asked for feedback: in terms of usability, I found the 'seek next' and 'seek previous' buttons confusing, since they're positioned left/right but control motion up/down, and even switch their direction based on loop. (This is because "forward" and "back" also change based on loop -- an indicator for that would help.) Adding navigation v…
JR East is already in the process of eliminating departure melodies as they transition to one-man station operations, so these will unfortunately be gone sooner than later. The Nambu and Joban lines got rid of them last year and it looks like the Yamanote is scheduled for them to be gone by 2030 [1]. I'm sure they can figure out a way to trigger custom melodies with RFID or similar eventually. Keikyu figured out how…
What are you doing? vibe coding and listing to how what on train speakers in tokyo.