blog.jimbo.org.uk - Comments on Tracks that might offend http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/07/last_monday_i_c.shtml Last Monday, I concocted a plan, together with Some Guy I Met In The Pub, that would make us both incredibly rich. However we're both far too lazy to implement it, so I'm going to go ahead and tell you all in the hope that someone else gets rich off it instead. Just remember you saw it here first, OK? Modern pub jukeboxes, it seems, offer the capability to download tracks from a vast selection (2 million according to Leisure Link's sales bumf), downloaded over now-ubiquitous broadband. This is something of a step up from a classic pub jukebox which might offer 50 or 100 albums, totalling maybe a couple of thousand tracks at best. Of course, not all 2 million tracks are stored on the machine at once, but those which are stored on the machine can be played for half the price of those needing to be downloaded, and those which are downloaded frequently tend to "evict" the less frequently played tracks from the disc. So far, so good, although clc points out the risk this system creates, that someone might choose tracks that might offend the delicate ears of other pub-goers. But why stop there? Why make people pissed up on a night out stagger up to the jukebox and try remember the name of the song they suddenly really fancy hearing? OK, for some people that's the whole fun of jukeboxes, but wouldn't it be cool if you could identify some tracks in advance, before you go out, and have the machine recognise you and play them? So, my scheme is to issue RFID tags of some kind to people containing a unique ID, along with login credentials for a website. Then you just top up your account on the site with credit, and let it... en-gb Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:47:07 +0000 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:28 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 jkg@jimbo.org.uk 180 By Edmund Schluessel Hey, you know Cookie and Random from #afp? They actually work for a company that does, or in the recent past did, those jukebox things... http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/07/last_monday_i_c.shtml#c1433 1433:111@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ Hey, you know Cookie and Random from #afp? They actually work for a company that does, or in the recent past did, those jukebox things...

]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:47:40 +0000 By relic And maybe, when voice recognition software's more up to the challenge, drunk people can select songs by singing the lines they can remember, or humming the tune! http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/07/last_monday_i_c.shtml#c1434 1434:111@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ And maybe, when voice recognition software's more up to the challenge, drunk people can select songs by singing the lines they can remember, or humming the tune!

]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:25:56 +0000 By James Ah, cool! I did vaguely remember that Cookie did something like that, from him mentioning having a machine under his desk with a couple of million tracks stored on it. I'll have to prod them at some point :) http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/07/last_monday_i_c.shtml#c1435 1435:111@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ Ah, cool! I did vaguely remember that Cookie did something like that, from him mentioning having a machine under his desk with a couple of million tracks stored on it.

I'll have to prod them at some point :)

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