Very interesting! I made just yesterday a track with Yamanote's Shinagawa melody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haV1O8hqaaE (using Suno)
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
#52Unfortunately 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.
Its not an automated operation, the train jingles play a few seconds before the conductor closes the door. Its played at different times depending on congestion on the train platform.
Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, and this is also the real tragedy of automated copyright enforcement. All the funny grey area uses get marginalized.
Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#54I'll plug a youtuber who has played them live for fun:
https://youtu.be/4V6Q5l2S7Co?si=k1M5F6WD3y05wIN2
He also has done live reproductions of SNES music which are well worth a view
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#55Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#56My favourite, when I lived in Japan many years ago, was the Musashi-Koganei melody in Tokyo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2xTUPveCw It stood very much in contrast with all the other jingles, and I simply loved it.
Is that a fancy dancy version of Sakura Sakura (probably the most famous Japanese folk song)? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jqpFjsMtCb0
It is.
There are possibly-recognizable tunes throughout the system. Vivaldi's Spring comes to mind. I think at Ooimachi.
Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#57Unfortunately 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.
I think it's pretty obvious that the goal is to get rid of the conductor position entirely. 50% less employees per train. Someone who sits at a desk all day definitely gets promoted for that one.
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#58What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.
Why...would this ever need a framework?
I haven't done any website design since the early 2010s, what would a webdev even pull from the modern frameworks to achieve what this site is doing?
Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#59Unfortunately 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.
> GPS
Kids these days...
Not only you don't need a GNSS to determine a fixed in place railroad station but actually you don't want to use a GNSS to do that.
A simple radio beacon working on ~400MHz is more than enough to solve this difficult technical obstacle.
Of course, this is totally ignoring what the trains do already know where they are because they need to display the current/next stations on the passenger information displays.
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#60I was just in Japan a few months ago. It was my fourth visit, but the first for my partner, who found the different departure melodies notable and a really nice, cute, joyful thing. We made a point to listen to them whenever we were taking a train somewhere (which was of course very often, multiple times per day). In a way it feels like a funny thing to have near top-of-mind when it comes to memories of a trip that was packed with so many fun activities.
Noticed the Okachimachi and Uguisudani (and several other) melodies are the same... is that correct, or is that a mistake on the site? I imagine it's hard to have a unique melody for every single station, so I expect there are some repeats throughout the transit system, but those two stations are so close together, it's a surprise that they'd be the same.