Yesterday, some moments after the previous post on thoughts regarding Spotify integration and the like, Engadget wrote a thing which was re-tweeted by the Pi people. It's like someone was listening to me and then attempting to make a thing. Like that, not exactly that you must understand! Left us wondering if we could do the same again with other thoughts on the thing.
Overnight, some more thinking along the lines of "Other ways to physically interact with your digital music". A few bad but plausible ideas listed here for fun.
Strike a pose
Theory here would be for an XBox connect (or similar camera sensor thingy) to be the controller of the album / band selection process. Examples include;
Would certainly be fun watching ones mother-in-law attempting to make a banana shape in order to get her favourite Velvet Undergroun track to play?
Image search
Instead of finding the relevant item by scanning it's barcode, why not *just* take a picture of the cover, fire that into musicbrainz as an image and get Google's image search function (other suppliers of this kind of technology exist) to match the relevant cover? This would conveniently work for older music which has no barcode.
Wave it at the thing
If we combined the above two (to some extent), we might end up with a passive always on camera which took a picture of the item that the user stuck in front of it, matched up the album using the musicbrainz image search, and allowed some form of additional interaction in order to pick the track to play (hold up fingers? [limited to 10], point to that position on clock? [limited to 12], arrange tracks in a circle [needs a display] and get the user to point?).
Brilliant, so I hope to hear about someone doing all or some of the above in the very near future! Comment below, or email me at the usual address if it's you!
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