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Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by kmorg »

cbhl wrote: post #37
kmorg wrote: post #29

Unfortunately JR East has phasing out the custom melodies and have been standardizing the Yamanote line to always play the same tune. They are saying labor shortages are the reason since they need to press a physical button in the station in order to play the melody.

Huh. https://kaisercougarconnection.com/2784/news/musical-trains-... My impression is that all of the Yamanote line stations are above ground -- I'd have expected it to be possible to have "one button plays the right sound at each station" if you used a standard phone's GPS to figure out which station you were at.

Its most likely not worth it to JR East to support it anymore since they have had a labor shortage recently.

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by bapak »

kmorg wrote: post #29

Unfortunately JR East has phasing out the custom melodies and have been standardizing the Yamanote line to always play the same tune. They are saying labor shortages are the reason since they need to press a physical button in the station in order to play the melody.

Huh? What does that even mean? The train already announces the train station name, so why does it need a specific button for the specific jingle? Does not sound right.

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by gruez »

cammikebrown wrote: post #8
ranger_danger wrote: post #2

How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?

Pffft, this is fair use

I know "fair use" gets bandied about quite frequently on youtube uploads, but offering full verbatim downloads of any work is highly unlikely to be considered fair use if a court were to rule on it. The only reason such sites are still up is that the rights holders don't care enough to sue.

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by searls »

phantomathkg wrote: post #40

What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.

Does it? On iPadOS 26 and even with Silent Mode disabled I still can't hear anything.

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by Shadowmist »

searls wrote: post #45
phantomathkg wrote: post #40

What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.

Does it? On iPadOS 26 and even with Silent Mode disabled I still can't hear anything.

Works fine for me on iPadOS 26. Click on the station names?

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by tkgally »

A couple of months ago, riding the subway through Ginza Station for the first time in a while, I noticed that the door-closing melody was from the 1949 song Ginza Kankan Musume [1, 2]. I’m normally not very familiar with Japanese pop music, but I happen to have the song on a playlist I listen to together with my five-year-old grandson. It brought a smile to my face, as it’s a cheerful, very slightly risqué song from the early postwar period, when Japanese popular culture was enjoying renewed freedom. It was fun to hear it in a subway station in 2025.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYpdBcso3A

[2] https://g.co/gemini/share/d584c36b99ab

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by notpushkin »

Nit: if you scroll down a lot, the stations at the top disappear (and get appended at the bottom, which makes sense – it’s a circular line after all!), but the space remains, so when you scroll back there’s a ton of empty space. Maybe remove that empty space after the scrolling has stopped? (Would be nice if you could scroll backwards, too!)

And just to throw in a wild idea, it might be nice if the UI was a variation of the in-train display interface: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Series-E131-500_Insi...

Naturally, it’s not as clean and sleek, but incorporating some elements of it might make this site look more authentic. Maybe something like this? https://files.catbox.moe/8cpp76.png

Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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Post by ipnon »

tkgally wrote: post #47

A couple of months ago, riding the subway through Ginza Station for the first time in a while, I noticed that the door-closing melody was from the 1949 song Ginza Kankan Musume [1, 2]. I’m normally not very familiar with Japanese pop music, but I happen to have the song on a playlist I listen to together with my five-year-old grandson. It brought a smile to my face, as it’s a cheerful, very slightly risqué song from…

I don't know how to describe this, but Japanese enjoy putting a little bit of joy into every thing, like Ronald McDonald, but real.
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