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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 adamors »

crazygringo wrote: post #144

First of all, this is super super cool. I love these cards, and how he's doing this for his son. But it also makes me sad when people write things like: > My 10-year-old doesn't have that. Music just sort of... happens. It's like it's infinite and invisible at the same time, playing from smart speakers, car stereos, my phone. Endless perfectly curated playlists, designed to fade into the background. The default liste…

I don't agree, endless music from faceless artists have made everything weightless and interchangeable, the never ending stream of recommended artists means that clicking next is more exciting than actually listening to something.

I remember 15-20 years ago, every album (even digital album) meant something, I remember trading CDs and MP3s with friends and listening to an album (or even a song) over and over again. Now we're spoiled for choice and very, very few artists produce something that will be remembered in 10 years, let alone 5.

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

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Post by cja »

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…

You can also add stream URLs to a card. Thus we have a "radio" card which lets my son play radio stations from all over the world.

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

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Post by dtkav »

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…

I recently bought the toniebox to hack it for my son's 4th birthday. It has become his favorite object.

I considered building sometime custom, but the tonie hardware is cute, portable, and lovable in a way that would be hard to replicate.

It has been really fun for my wife and I to listen to our favorite music in the car, and then when my son says "I like this song" I "burn" him a little disk that evening.

He's turned into a little DJ, and has memorized a handful of his songs (and dances and sings along).

One caveat is that finding compatible NFC tags is a little bit complicated. if you buy from RFIDfriend [0] then they take a couple weeks to arrive from Germany.

Highly recommend!

[0] http://RFIDfriend.com

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

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Post by nedt »

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…

Yeah I've also build a Phoniebox a couple of years ago for my kid. It has physical buttons, RFID cards or chips (some hidden in plush toys) and works very much like tonies, but with much easier access to anything you want to put on it. It's all in a wooden box including speakers. I've later extended it with a powerbank.

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

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Post by derwiki »

gwbas1c wrote: post #12

> I think we're unintentionally teaching our children to consume music passively. My goal with this project was to teach them to discover it actively, to own it, to care about it at the album level. I think it kinda worked! Some people also say that about prerecorded music and whine about when families had to gather around the piano to sing.

Waldorf?

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

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Post by derwiki »

jordanf wrote: post #20
gwbas1c wrote: post #14

An easy way to do this without needing to build a thing is to get into vinyl. One of the nice things about vinyl is that historians will have an easier time figuring out what's on it than many of our digital formats.

ok but building a thing is the fun part

Sure but parents of small children often don’t have as much time for the building

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

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Post by derwiki »

jordanf wrote: post #135
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.

Thanks for your vapid and misguided feedback, Doug Durham. I hope you find joy somewhere.

Clearly tons of people like this project. You don’t have to respond to the naysayers.

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

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Post by lb1lf »

rhinoceraptor wrote: post #81
bobthepanda wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CDs are now actually also joining vinyls in being revived for physical merch purposes. They're no longer needed, but if you want them they are available for purchase.

I love CDs, and unlike records or tapes they have never really gone up in price, even with inflation. A new CD is still about $15.

This is one of the most absurd facts there is.

Back in the eighties when CDs were introduced, they were NOK 165 a piece for a new release.

Last time I dropped by my friendly neighbourhood dealer (of music, that is), the CD rack said CDs were NOK 189.

165 1985-kroner equals nigh on 500 2025-kroner.

Incidentally, an LP back then was NOK 89, equivalent to NOK 270 today - whereas an LP today would set me back approx. NOK 399.

Good thing my employer pays me significantly better than my parents did in the eighties. I can still sustain my music habit.

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