Making my life better via music - Android car stereo - LotusTalk

dbisbee · 10-19-2009, 10:03 AM

OK cus I am too chicken and challenged to do this myself and i just read an article on how to avoid feature creep in your life! Bring it on!

The world at this time needs some technology to work for us and help us forget how screwed up everything really is.

Music

If you have put on headphones and listened to your favorite music with your eyes closed and no interruptions. You know what I am talking about.
Here is a future that I thought of years ago (2001). Every year I think OK this is the year that this happens but not yet and from what I see not even now. And from what I see on how large companies implement new stuff can get so close then leave you hanging. (cough..Alpine imprint).

But every year we get closer.

OK if you have read this far I guess I should tell you. I am sorry if you are disappointed.

Idea: Your music stays with you all day. Not what is on the airwaves but your own music. Envision waking up to your favorite mixes on your music player for example but when you leave and get in the car the music continues with the same song you had on in the house when you left. Then when you leave the car it stays with you on your phone. This is all so possible and like I stated I am just too lazy and intellectually challenged to make it happen but would love to win the lottery and hire people to bring this to light. It is not that hard people just implementation is all that is missing.

It may not seem like much but the endless transition of music throughout my day would make me an even happier man.

With my limited knowledge here is a simplified implementation: Music player on something like Android that also runs on your laptop/desktop. This streams music to your house music system. Your playlists are then sync’d to your phone and car stereo. CAUTION SIDE TRACKED: Wouldn’t an Android car stereo be cool. Think of the possibilities. Store and use in other applications GPS, canbus, music, video and etc information.... And on top of that open source for anybody to write apps that don’t exist. You could sit in your house plan a trip and at the same time see how much fuel is in your car and lookup the last time your oil was changed or how many miles on your tires via your Android stereo in your car!

My earlier ideas behind this had wifi in your car that would tie into your home network when home to sync your music and playlists. Sync GPS and routing locations that you have on your laptop for a road trip. The system would know when you are moving as your GPS would indicate this and the playlist could be varied to driving music. Even to your driving style: Fast (upbeat motivated tunes), in traffic (more relaxing maybe even classical music depending on what is in your library). The system would know when you are getting close to your GPS locations work, hotel, beach, airport, girlfriends house and even using intelligence play appropriate music in your music library (Wouldn’t that be ingenious).

If your car was not parked near your house network a flash drive could be created that you plug into your car and that would sync the car to the house. When you get home hit sync to flash. Then when in the house sync your car to your home. Then sync in the house before going back to the car. This could also be accomplished via Bluetooth Android pda and Bluetooth car stereo.

What are the serious flaws about this? You know I don’t really care what the flaws are I want this even if nobody else does!
So get on it! Of course when this happens please let me at least buy one at cost.

OK I feel better now that I got that out...back to bed. I'm old you know.

Mr. Know · 10-19-2009, 10:09 AM

Basically Pandora?

alil'britdifferent · 10-19-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Know

Basically Pandora?

Yep.

Or Slacker.

dbisbee · 10-19-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Know

Basically Pandora?

OK I'll bite and search for Pandora?

Mr. Know · 10-19-2009, 10:28 AM

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music

Lotus Fury · 10-19-2009, 10:30 AM

Pandora (music service) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If I didn't have Sirius I would just do Pandora.

dbisbee · 10-19-2009, 10:36 AM

Very good indeed! But it still not the complete picture.

DrJ · 10-19-2009, 12:42 PM

hmmm.

dbisbee · 10-19-2009, 02:45 PM

well ideas?

xtn · 10-19-2009, 03:47 PM

So basically you want to replicate the experience of carrying around your favorite CD with you wherever you go?

You mentioned that when you're out your music would be with you on your phone. Why don't you just always leave it on your phone? Then wherever you are you have your music. You can play it with headphones, on your computer, through your car's stereo or your home system.

Or else you need compatible file types and players for every device in the world, and that's not going to happen. Apple, for example, will let you use your ipod or iphone THROUGH your car stereo, but since they don't sell a car stereo they're not going to let one actually get the files directly from itunes.

To implement your location specific music yo just need to categorize/tag your music adn then write an app to map categories to locations. Then when you're in a certain place it knows to play certain music. Seems like it ought to be fairly routine for an experienced coder?

glb · 10-19-2009, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Lotus Fury

Pandora (music service) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If I didn't have Sirius I would just do Pandora.

Love my sirius.

Plus, I like to hear music new to me, not just what I've already heard.

lotusland · 10-19-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by dbisbee

Idea: Your music stays with you all day. Not what is on the airwaves but your own music.

This is the opposite of what I want. I want to hear new music everyday, not necessarily something radically new but some stuff that I have not heard a thousand times (like I have with my own music). Pandora is ideal for this. If you pay for Pandora -- I do -- you get a high-bandwidth feed that sounds very good. I use Squeezebox at home and the iPhone app out and about -- these both have great Pandora access and control. Squeezbox also allows multiple players to sync up in the home.

These two systems -- Squeezebox and the iPhone -- are also great at housing and playing my own music but really that does not seem like a big challenge to me. Really, any high-capacity DAP can take your collection with you wherever you go. My 32G iPhone holds a ton of music and can be used anywhere -- in the car, or via headphones, or over a home system if you don't have Squeezebox.

teekster · 10-25-2009, 07:37 PM

Combine Pandora/ Slacker with Orb and you are there.

mrcarcrazy · 10-26-2009, 09:58 AM

I love Pandora. sadly we got a memo that we weren't allowed to use it, as it was bogging down the servers. I generally use my ipod on a desktop clock radio now.

LotusLacer · 10-26-2009, 10:14 AM

hah, i listen to pandora all day at work (listening to it now as i type this

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10-19-2009, 10:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
dbisbee Service animal Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 476	Making my life better via music - Android car stereo OK cus I am too chicken and challenged to do this myself and i just read an article on how to avoid feature creep in your life! Bring it on! The world at this time needs some technology to work for us and help us forget how screwed up everything really is. Music If you have put on headphones and listened to your favorite music with your eyes closed and no interruptions. You know what I am talking about. Here is a future that I thought of years ago (2001). Every year I think OK this is the year that this happens but not yet and from what I see not even now. And from what I see on how large companies implement new stuff can get so close then leave you hanging. (cough..Alpine imprint). But every year we get closer. OK if you have read this far I guess I should tell you. I am sorry if you are disappointed. Idea: Your music stays with you all day. Not what is on the airwaves but your own music. Envision waking up to your favorite mixes on your music player for example but when you leave and get in the car the music continues with the same song you had on in the house when you left. Then when you leave the car it stays with you on your phone. This is all so possible and like I stated I am just too lazy and intellectually challenged to make it happen but would love to win the lottery and hire people to bring this to light. It is not that hard people just implementation is all that is missing. It may not seem like much but the endless transition of music throughout my day would make me an even happier man. With my limited knowledge here is a simplified implementation: Music player on something like Android that also runs on your laptop/desktop. This streams music to your house music system. Your playlists are then sync’d to your phone and car stereo. CAUTION SIDE TRACKED: Wouldn’t an Android car stereo be cool. Think of the possibilities. Store and use in other applications GPS, canbus, music, video and etc information.... And on top of that open source for anybody to write apps that don’t exist. You could sit in your house plan a trip and at the same time see how much fuel is in your car and lookup the last time your oil was changed or how many miles on your tires via your Android stereo in your car! My earlier ideas behind this had wifi in your car that would tie into your home network when home to sync your music and playlists. Sync GPS and routing locations that you have on your laptop for a road trip. The system would know when you are moving as your GPS would indicate this and the playlist could be varied to driving music. Even to your driving style: Fast (upbeat motivated tunes), in traffic (more relaxing maybe even classical music depending on what is in your library). The system would know when you are getting close to your GPS locations work, hotel, beach, airport, girlfriends house and even using intelligence play appropriate music in your music library (Wouldn’t that be ingenious). If your car was not parked near your house network a flash drive could be created that you plug into your car and that would sync the car to the house. When you get home hit sync to flash. Then when in the house sync your car to your home. Then sync in the house before going back to the car. This could also be accomplished via Bluetooth Android pda and Bluetooth car stereo. What are the serious flaws about this? You know I don’t really care what the flaws are I want this even if nobody else does! So get on it! Of course when this happens please let me at least buy one at cost. OK I feel better now that I got that out...back to bed. I'm old you know. __________________ The word "PASSION" should aways be uppercase. #349 '05 AS Elise Touring, Hardtop, Starshield, Plinth delete, GPS Garmin 680, V1, V1 mirror, Leather console, Multivex, Alpine CDA9887, JL stealthbox, Focals, Alpine PDX 5, HID, RAC Monolites, R888's, Stage II, Front Slotted rotors, R4-S pads, Stebel nautilus, TitanQR and Odyssey 925 now with bracket.

10-19-2009, 10:09 AM	#2 (permalink)
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10-19-2009, 10:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
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10-19-2009, 10:36 AM	#7 (permalink)
dbisbee Service animal Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 476	Very good indeed! But it still not the complete picture. __________________ The word "PASSION" should aways be uppercase. #349 '05 AS Elise Touring, Hardtop, Starshield, Plinth delete, GPS Garmin 680, V1, V1 mirror, Leather console, Multivex, Alpine CDA9887, JL stealthbox, Focals, Alpine PDX 5, HID, RAC Monolites, R888's, Stage II, Front Slotted rotors, R4-S pads, Stebel nautilus, TitanQR and Odyssey 925 now with bracket.

10-19-2009, 12:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
DrJ Future Track Junkie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 1,614	hmmm. __________________ Probablistically!

10-19-2009, 10:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
Lotus Fury Blame Canada, eh? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pgh, Pa Posts: 2,261	Pandora (music service) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If I didn't have Sirius I would just do Pandora.

10-19-2009, 02:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
dbisbee Service animal Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 476	well ideas? __________________ The word "PASSION" should aways be uppercase. #349 '05 AS Elise Touring, Hardtop, Starshield, Plinth delete, GPS Garmin 680, V1, V1 mirror, Leather console, Multivex, Alpine CDA9887, JL stealthbox, Focals, Alpine PDX 5, HID, RAC Monolites, R888's, Stage II, Front Slotted rotors, R4-S pads, Stebel nautilus, TitanQR and Odyssey 925 now with bracket.

10-19-2009, 03:47 PM	#10 (permalink)
xtn McLareghini Bugatterrari Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 6,845	So basically you want to replicate the experience of carrying around your favorite CD with you wherever you go? You mentioned that when you're out your music would be with you on your phone. Why don't you just always leave it on your phone? Then wherever you are you have your music. You can play it with headphones, on your computer, through your car's stereo or your home system. Or else you need compatible file types and players for every device in the world, and that's not going to happen. Apple, for example, will let you use your ipod or iphone THROUGH your car stereo, but since they don't sell a car stereo they're not going to let one actually get the files directly from itunes. To implement your location specific music yo just need to categorize/tag your music adn then write an app to map categories to locations. Then when you're in a certain place it knows to play certain music. Seems like it ought to be fairly routine for an experienced coder? __________________ 2006 McLareghini Bugatterrari, Storm Titanium... <mods> installed: air horn, Scroth 4-point ASM harnesses, Sector111 halon extinguisher and mounting bracket, Von Hep exhaust and rear panel delete, Pagid brake pads, red Volks CE28n wheels, Toyo RA-1 tires, Nitron SA coilovers, Sector111 (WorksBell) quick-disconnect steering wheel kit. awaiting installation: Scroth "pull-up" lap belts, Sector111 RTD Brace, Tony's heater bypass mod, and dropped steering rack mounting plates. </mods>

10-25-2009, 07:37 PM	#13 (permalink)
teekster Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minnetrista, MN Posts: 706	Combine Pandora/ Slacker with Orb and you are there. __________________ 2005 Lotus Elise 2008 Land Rover RR 2008 Jaguar XJ Vanden Plas

10-26-2009, 09:58 AM	#14 (permalink)
mrcarcrazy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Midland, TX Posts: 690	I love Pandora. sadly we got a memo that we weren't allowed to use it, as it was bogging down the servers. I generally use my ipod on a desktop clock radio now. __________________ 2005 Magnetic Blue Elise - "the Lotus" (original I know) 2001 Jeep Wrangler - "soul crusher". If you dont GET it after you drive it, then you dont GET it - serpent

10-26-2009, 10:14 AM	#15 (permalink)
LotusLacer Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Nampa, Idaho Posts: 143	hah, i listen to pandora all day at work (listening to it now as i type this )

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