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Spencer
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@spencer@motley.club  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The build is successful!

I finally finished* my TagTuner music jukebox and hooked it up to some speakers. It uses the ESPHome-based Home Assistant Voice PE as its brains and audio player, and when it scans NFC tags, it fetches corresponding media from my Music Assistant server.

I still have a couple bugs to work out, but this is definitely close enough to feel "ready".

I'm so happy to have a tool that will let us both (a) leverage my large home media server and (b) enjoy some of the benefits of physical media.

#physicalmedia #ESP32 #homeassistant #musicassistant #diy

A small homemade device sitting on a side table. The device is about 5 inches or 12.5 centimeters square. Standing in a slot in the top cover is a black disk that resembled a miniature vinyl record. In the background are speakers.
A small homemade device sitting on a side table. The device is about 5 inches or 12.5 centimeters square. Standing in a slot in the top cover is a black disk that resembled a miniature vinyl record. In the background are speakers.
A small homemade device sitting on a side table. The device is about 5 inches or 12.5 centimeters square. Standing in a slot in the top cover is a black disk that resembled a miniature vinyl record. In the background are speakers.
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TagTuner music player

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#ESP32 #musicassistant #physicalmedia #homeassistant #diy
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@ronald48@mastodon.world  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@spencer It looks good and I get it that you enjoy making it. But do I understand it right that you will have these album-like physical tags for everything in your library?

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Spencer
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@spencer@motley.club  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@ronald48 Thank you!

No, the point is not to fully physicalize every album or playlist in my library. That's far too much effort, and would likely result in a ton of unused tags.

Instead, I plan to make tags for favorite albums or playlists, roughly defined, the way some folks night have a small curated collection of vinyls to leaf through.

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@ronald48@mastodon.world  路  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@spencer Ah, yes. I get that. I visualised a huge collection of 3D-printed tags instead of a huge collection of LPs or CDs 馃槅.

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Justin
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@justin@mastodon.tacoma.community  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@spencer
That's freaking awesome! Do you have plans to share out the build etc?

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@spencer@motley.club  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@justin This is not of my own devising; I followed the instructions for the TagTuner project, which is what you're looking for.

I linked those in my initial post too. 馃檪

TagTuner music player

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@justin@mastodon.tacoma.community  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@spencer Oh shoot I missed that ty ty

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@spencer@motley.club  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

To say more on point (b): I enjoy running my own music-streaming server with Navidrome, and I have a not-small library of music, but I'm not happy with many of the wrinkles such a collection introduces. My brain forms media habits really quickly, so if I'm not routinely exposed to different musical options, which is hard to do on a small device that is often sorted alphabetically, I will play the same few songs and albums over and over again, despite wanting to broaden my horizons. I also want all of us on my family, including my young child, to be able to browse and select music without staring at a screen.

Because this uses Music Assistant, I can still browse the full library on a device when I'm feeling up for it. But this also allows a more curated, lower-tech method of interaction that matters a lot to me.

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@spencer@motley.club  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Build note: I was having trouble getting the "records" to scan when in the upright orientation pictured, so I opened the case and removed most of a pedestal in the base, allowing the discs to descend further when placed in that position. Now we're golden.

Well, other than the screw holes that are now slightly stripped. 3D-printed PLA really doesn't want to have things screwed into and out of it multiple times. 馃檭

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