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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 rahimnathwani »

oliverjanssen wrote: post #28

Love this project! That line about unintentionally teaching kids to consume music passively really resonates. I built something with a similar motivation – Muky ( https://muky.app ), an app for creating curated, distraction-free music experiences for kids. Different approach (digital vs. physical), but the same core idea: helping kids engage with music intentionally rather than as background noise.

Muky looks awesome for younger kids. The integration with Spotify seems really well thought out, and I like the 'iOS 16' feature!

I'm not in the target market for this, but I've heard other parents wish for a way to curate their kids' YouTube experience. For example restricting them to certain pre-approved channels. I wonder if there's a clever way to do that with a companion app, like you've done with Muky/Spotify.

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

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Post by kulahan »

nedrylandJP wrote: post #8
jones1618 wrote: post #6

Love this idea! This could also be a way for social discovery that studios could promote: Imagine a rack of album cards at Target where each costs a $1 and lets you play samples of all the tracks on the album (read lyrics and liner notes, etc) and puts $1 in your online wallet. So, kids (or anyone) could sample different albums and then save up to buy whole albums they like. Also, already redeemed ("used") cards woul…

The rack of cards at Target costs more than $1/ea sadly: https://www.target.com/b/yoto/-/N-q643lentif4

Sheesh. Surely you could build that device for like $15, though I guess all the money would go into the speaker quality. Maybe it sounds amazing.

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

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Post by vitorbaptistaa »

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 (music, audiobooks, even audio recordings). It's really well made.

There are a bunch of other companies with similar products. Some use miniatures instead of NFC cards. If you search the web for NFC music player, there are a few FOSS apps on github so you can focus on the hardware part and use their software on a raspberry pi.

This is also great for elders.

P.S.: if you fancy a cool project, I'd love to see someone reverse engineering Yoto so it gets the audio from a local server instead. This way we can use their great hardware, but can use any NFC cards.

[1] https://yotoplay.com/

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

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Post by dylan604 »

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…

> especially when friends come over. Books or CDs become a conversation.

There's nothing worse than when having people over, and sitting in front of a computer or device isolating from the group. The physical medium of vinyl albums or even CDs allow interaction with everyone instead of someone just clicking on a screen some where. What I read on an album covers might not be the same thing you read and take away from it. It just makes music sharing so much more personal.

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

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Post by sandreas »

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 to print labels for audio books and music: https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/, but in the end it took too much time to print so many labels :-)

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

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Post by doctorhandshake »

Nice timing. I’m right in the middle of doing this for music and video media for my kid (using an elaborate concoction of python, nocodb, home assistant, Jellyfin, a NAS, an RPi, and a chromecast) and the thing I had yet to figure out was the physicality of the RFID-sticker-containing cards themselves

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

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Post by glenngillen »

I've been meaning to build a similar thing. I already have all the parts, but I was hoping to find a way to build something that simulated a small record player. Bonus points for a way to have a functioning turntable with the NFC reader + raspi hidden underneath it. If anyone has ideas or has seen a way to make that work please share some links!
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