Julf wrote: > I still have an 'empeg player' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg) (the > first in-car mp3 player from almost 15 years ago, arm-based, running > linux) in my car. It has an interesting feature - the "Wendy Switch" > (named after a former girfriend of the main designer). A pin on the > player could be wired to the seat sensor for the passenger seat airbag, > so the player actually knows if you are alone in the car, or have a > passenger. You can tag your music, and mark songs, artists or albums so > that the "Wendy Filter" will not show them at all if there is a > passenger in the car... :)
Very cool. Ok, now I'm imagining a home system that knows who is in the house and bases random play on info from that fact. So when my wife is in the house, the random music choices exclude certain things (Grateful Dead live shows!). Maybe it knows because it picks up that my wife's iphone is connected to our local network. And maybe we register our friends, so that when their smartphones connect to our network, the playlist is modified to better fit their tastes. When Bob comes over, it plays more Blues. When MaryJane comes over it plays more 80s powerpop, etc. This sounds a lot like what I recall reading about Bill Gates house he built a few years ago. When you entered a room, the house knew who you were and the digital artwork, lighting, and music changed to fit your predetermined profile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98199 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
