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Re: Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

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Post by phreack »

I can't believe how there's no buttons on devices anymore. This is a reminder on how much I miss them! I remember when I'd clip a really small iPod to my chest between layers of clothes and just move through songs by pressing it whenever. First and last time I felt cyborg-ish with technology.

Re: Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

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Post by smoldesu »

scatters wrote: post #38
racl101 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still have my original iPods. The original and the mini chromatic ones. When I'm on the go and or in a gym and I need to play music, nothing beats a simple mp3 player. Don't want the bulk of the phone. Don't want to have to touch a phone screen and engage with it. I'd rather just reach into my pocket and press buttons.

I think smartwatches fill that niche now - at least those models with physical buttons. I'm actually impressed by how ergonomic the music listening experience on my Garmin is.

I never thought I'd say this, but I actually agree. I have a Fossil Gen 5 that I use for the exact same purpose, and it works great with Bluetooth headphones.

Re: Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

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Post by btown »

smnscu wrote: post #18

How do you even get the _feel_ of the device so right? I'm perplexed, such a great project. I started using it unironically to play music, I'd totally pay for a Mac/iOS app haha.

Simpler than one might think - once you do the math to project each touch/mouse event down to an angle, you just need to quantize the angle to a certain number of discrete options (which you can measure on an actual device), look at the event stream of such angle events pairwise, and take the sign of the pairwise difference as right/left or up/down!

The much harder part when designing the iPods themselves was to build a robust touch sensor given the hardware of the day, and actually come up with pleasing dimensions and quantization parameters as a designer!

Code for this implementation: https://github.com/tvillarete/ipod-classic-js/blob/master/sr...

Re: Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

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Post by worldmerge »

McAtNite wrote: post #39
isoprophlex wrote: post #28

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Now that you mention it, I REALLY want a piece of hardware like this..!

Something like this? https://bemighty.com It’s not active live streaming, just downloading your playlists.

That's a cool piece of tech. It's unfortunate it doesn't work with mp3s ( from the faq) as well.
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