nzoschke
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7 hours ago Is Amazon Music a hard requirement? Currently JukeLab is built primarily on Spotify.
There is also support for music hosted on Internet Archive as well as a directory of MP3 files in various old versions and branches.
I can imagine this:
Someone could just touch the picture and it starts a curated Spotify playlist
Then Spotify has some support for playing that music on other devices with Spotify Connect.
Noah Zoschke,
As we discussed, I've been trying to make it possible for my 85-year-old dad to listen to Amazon Music. He has Aphasia, so he can't talk fast enough for Alexa to understand him. Your app is the closest thing I've found that might work for him. But, I'm 90% sure he can't type the numbers in...or understand the scrolling mechanic.
What if he could just touch the picture and it triggers a routine in Alexa to play a curated playlist? Instead of scrolling, each picture is fixed on a static desktop. The picture border changes color to indicate it's selected, and goes back to default if another picture is selected.
Points if I can control, remotely, what's showing on his tablet. So, he decides one day he wants to hear Liberace, I can quickly program a button and send it to his tablet. His phone is like this. He has a Raz Mobility phone; I control the setup remotely (https://www.razmobility.com/solutions/memory-cellphone). The other amazing thing about the Raz phone is it's fumble-proof: fixed picture buttons, always on, and disables volume and power buttons. Tasker maybe, with the remote interface collecting variable values for the routine? Idk?
Another similar idea is a stream deck, but I don't know if they can be controlled by a tablet. I'm working on this idea now, as it seems pretty fumble-proof and minimal coding on my part.
I'm willing to give up my Kindle Fire for this use, as I feel he should have access to "unlimited" music. Do you have some ideas or any time to work on this? I have pretty limited coding experience. I imagine this being a pretty broad use case; kids, elderly, other mobility or mentally divergent folks.
Let me know what you think, Cat Phillips