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I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by fsargent »

majkinetor wrote: post #97
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #33

I love this! I prefer digital stuff (less things to worry about), but I miss the physicality, especially when friends come over. Books or CDs become a conversation. If you'd like to do something similar, but don't want to DIY it, check out Yoto Player [1]. This is a small music speaker and they sell a bunch of NFC cards to "play" them. You can also buy blank cards and use their app to add whatever you want to them (m…

There is a technical difference though - yolo keeps the audio on the cards, while this project uses NFC tags to select locally stored audio. To have truly collectable experience, yolo type of thing is the only choice.

Yoto doesn’t keep the audio on the cards, all the audio is stored on the cloud and the NFC cards just have a link to the album. The Yoto can’t play a card it hasn’t already seen before without connecting to the Wi-Fi and downloading it.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by IshKebab »

jcul wrote: post #41
sandreas wrote: post #35

There are several projects here in germany doing similar things. There is https://tonies.com , which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable ( https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud ). Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmaker…

There's also yoto box, which lets you create "make your own" cards.

We have Yoto for our kids and I was initially skeptical (the cards are quite expensive) but actually it's been amazing. Probably the biggest benefit that we didn't even know is that they have a sort of radio/podcast thing for kids called Yoto Daily that's really well produced and totally free.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by royletron »

Meh I feel like this sort of misses the point. It's very cool technically but if the aim is to bring back a sense of connection to music then I'd say the execution is way off.

Music stores are struggling, if they go all that'll be left is Amazon and Spotify...

Here's my tip. Buy your kid a CD walkman, go to a music store once a month and give them a budget. If they're lost help them get started. If they make a choice they don't like then most stores will offer trade in. Eventually they'll even form a relationship with the store workers (shout at to Mark in Truck) who will give more recommendations. My son's even started listening to radio to get more inspiration and we pumped all of our money into the local economy...

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by Atlas667 »

yegle wrote: post #48

Hmm w/o using Plex, I think the same can be done using a RasPi w/ an NFC reader to send a command to a remote MPD server to start casting to my Google Home devices. The NFC tag to album mapping can be managed using a plaintext file.

This is the next feature i want to implement in my own nfc player, which is essentially the same idea as OPs but only through vlc for now.

I run it on a raspi and uses nfcpy and python-vlc.

Its on github under nfc_player.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

My friend's slightly less geeky approach was just to rebuy a lot of his classic albums on CD that he'd previously sold, which his daughters seem to enjoy at about half the age of the one in the story.

Possibly bossing their dad around to do the actual disc insertion is part of the fun at that age.

As someone who borrows books from the library rather than buys them (partly as an added motivation to actually read them within a set timeframe) I have similar thoughts about my bookshelves that mostly contain gifted books.

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

larusso wrote: post #110
ozim wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still legitimate options to buy media and download mp3.

Yes I know. But audiobooks bought are way more expensive than getting them from audible with the credit system over the course of one year for instance. I used to buy my albums rather than having a streaming service subscription. But I sadly caved in. I just wonder if all who report they do this for they kids etc really go out and buy all these great records and audiobooks etc. because for me there is a reason to hav…

It seems to me like this is more about nostalgia than current music. I'm considering doing something similar with my cd collection which is original from the 90s/00s with some back catalogue 60s-90s stuff thrown in. I listen to most modern music via streaming, but still buy the odd new release album that really matters to me (literally one or two a year).

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by pachico »

This is so great!

On one hand, I love the possibility of having millions of albums at your disposal via streaming services. On the other hand, I hate having to type or click to select them (voice recognition just doesn't work).

Yours seems to be the best combination.

Congratulations!!!

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

hatthew wrote: post #62
dhosek wrote: post #29

I’ve made a conscious decision to not do streaming services. Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. I don’t even want all of my own music on my phone. Instead, I use a set of smart playlists to give me a changing selection of songs based on ratings, how long it’s been since I last heard a song and how new the music is in my library.

> Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. This is an interesting statement; could you clarify what you mean? Taken at face value it seems like a falsism, but I'm assuming you have an interpretation in mind that would make sense to me.

Paying for a permanent subset of music transfers value to that set in a way that subscribing to everything doesn't.
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