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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 opan »

hatthew wrote: post #62
dhosek wrote: post #29

I’ve made a conscious decision to not do streaming services. Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. I don’t even want all of my own music on my phone. Instead, I use a set of smart playlists to give me a changing selection of songs based on ratings, how long it’s been since I last heard a song and how new the music is in my library.

> Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. This is an interesting statement; could you clarify what you mean? Taken at face value it seems like a falsism, but I'm assuming you have an interpretation in mind that would make sense to me.

It's like having a library you built up over the years based on your tastes and the era you grew up in that you can idly look through vs having a search bar to YouTube.

I hear the same argument a lot when it comes to game emulation. People will say you shouldn't put full ROM sets on your device because it makes it harder to decide what to play and to stick to a game. Compare that to browsing the 30 GameCube games you have in a cupboard from 20 years ago. You can kinda recreate that digitally by only putting a select amount of games on your device at a time and trying to spend more time per game. This particularly comes up when discussing emulation on handhelds.

Bringing the conversation back to music, while I do prefer digital, I've got albums in FLAC on my phone and I re-listen to the same 50 or so albums a lot, only occasionally adding/removing from what's on there.

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

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Post by Rhinobird »

housebear wrote: post #39

Love this. What are you tapping the cards onto ? What is reading that info and then pulling the music? (I'm not super savvy and can't figure it out from the writeup).

I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something

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Post by jdiff »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #55
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.

They're needed if you want proper digital copies for gapless album playback. You can't trust anybody to get that right.

Apple seems to do that reasonably right in my limited experience.

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

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Post by lawgimenez »

Back in the day me and my friends would also trade cassettes and CDs for a week because buying one costs a lot of money for broke teenagers like us.

Hey I just bought this new Dead Kennedys tape I would love to trade for your NOFX CD!

Kids nowadays just take for granted music and it makes me kinda sad.

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

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Post by iafan »

housebear wrote: post #39

Love this. What are you tapping the cards onto ? What is reading that info and then pulling the music? (I'm not super savvy and can't figure it out from the writeup).

On iPhone, tapping an NFC tag with a URL opens a popup that allows you to navigate to that URL with a single click. If this URL is supported by an installed app, this app will handle this. For example, if you write a URL of a Spotify playlist onto your NFC tag/sticker (which you can also do from the phone via an app like NFC Tools), then bring that sticker to iPhone, it will show this as a Spotify URL, and you can tap on this notification and go to that Spotify playlist. So all you need to experiment with is a writable NFC tag and your phone, no other hardware required. I bet Android phones offer a similar experience.

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Post by AlecSchueler »

kulahan wrote: post #30
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.

I've never been super into music listening, though I do love singing. I'm curious what you think is important about this difference in approach. The idea doesn't come naturally to me - probably for the same reason intentional listening sounds more like a chore to me. I want to be clear I'm not poo-pooing on the idea! I just can't connect with it personally, and if you're that into the topic, I figured you might have…

For me it's just a matter of being able to follow what's going on. It would be like watching a movie passively or listening to someone read from a book without listening to what they're saying.
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