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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 oneeyedpigeon »

doug_durham wrote: post #58

Seems like an excuse to play with NFC tags. These types of articles come off as sanctimonious. There is nothing superior about the cards. On a phone or computer you can get complete liner notes for any song. All of that is missing from this system. You don't need to justify working on a pet project. Just do it. It doesn't have to be "superior". It's ok if it's dumb.

I was surprised to see nothing about liner notes, lyrics, or other info that could have been added to these cards. Especially with the aspect ratio issue! Seems like almost anything would be a better use of that valuable space than AI hallucinations.

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Post by MedAzizBenSalem »

It's this gorgeous mixing of innovation and nostalgia. I love how you tied the haptic joy of finding music with modern tech the NFC + PlexAmp partnership. It's amazing how streaming gave music to everyone's fingertips but reduced it to something less personal, and your solution restores that sense of ownership and ritual. I'd love to see this be a bit of an open source kit or community project I suspect lots of parents and music nerds would leap at it.

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Post by IanCal »

I built a scanner with a nfc reader and esphome, and I made some 3d printed things to stick the tags on - the kids love them. I originally partly did this as not all songs play well when asked for on a smart speaker. I know all these are safe and I can put playlists on them too.

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Post by IanCal »

larusso wrote: post #100

I really like the idea. I also grew up in a household with tons of physical media to explore. I still have my blue ray collection but it’s mainly sitting in the shelf because I honestly don’t know what else to put there. But I’m wondering reading all the comments from people doing something similar with alternative products etc how they do this legally? I mean I can’t just download stuff from Apple Music and play it…

I’ve ripped a bunch of cds which I think is not technically legal here but I have no moral issue, an we’d bought some.

Other than that with setups like music assistant you can stream from these services, it’s just a different trigger. I know that’s not quite what you asked but it’s a clean solution to play on the speakers you’d already stream on.

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Post by emsign »

I remember going to the flea market with my dad discovering new music by buying old vinyl records just by liking the cover art or because I've vaguely heard about the band. How times have changed even though t=ose flea markets with records still exist today.

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

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Post by squigz »

neumann wrote: post #61

I think mentioned elsewhere here, https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID is great for this. I did something similar with an opp shop Fisher Price[0] record player, with the RFID reader under the turntable and each 'card' is a laminated record cover with the rfid stuck on it. Lots of good photos of different implementations in their issue threads. We also use it for kids podcasts (autodownloads them weekly). I a…

Haha, using that Fisher Price toy for this is super cute.

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

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Post by squigz »

larusso wrote: post #100

I really like the idea. I also grew up in a household with tons of physical media to explore. I still have my blue ray collection but it’s mainly sitting in the shelf because I honestly don’t know what else to put there. But I’m wondering reading all the comments from people doing something similar with alternative products etc how they do this legally? I mean I can’t just download stuff from Apple Music and play it…

Why get hung up on the legality of something like this, assuming you're just going to use it for personal use in your home?

It's not morally wrong to take music you pay for and use it in a perfectly reasonable - and fun - way.

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