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Jordi Parra’s Spotify Box is a wonderful reworking of the mix-tape and the radio, all in a hot little Dieter Rams-inspired box.
It works like this. The “radio” part has (or will have) a Wi-Fi connection and runs the Spotify music-streaming service using libspotify on embedded Linux. The radio comes with a clutch of tiny RFID disks. These can be tied to any Spotify track or playlist, so when you pop them into the little RFID-reading circle on the front of the box, music starts to play. Buttons on the faceplate let you skip tracks.
Apart from the wonderful look of the box, I like the concept a lot. You get the convenience and huge music library of Spotify, but the physicality and hand-crafted playlists come from the days of CDs, vinyl and cassette tapes.
That perforated front isn’t just a speaker grille, either. LEDs behind the holes light up in a kind of dot-matrix to make numbers, letter and icons to let your know what is happening inside. Here’s the video:
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Parra plans on continuing with his project, and has even been in contact with people from Spotify. Right now the box is little more than a peripheral that needs to be connected to a computer to play music, but those are just details. The idea itself is a good one. And add in some kind of AirPlay or Bluetooth audio capabilities and you have a super useful — not to mention hot-looking — wireless speaker for the home.
Spotify Radio [Jordi Parra / Zenona]
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It works like this. The “radio” part has (or will have) a Wi-Fi connection and runs the Spotify music-streaming service using libspotify on embedded Linux. The radio comes with a clutch of tiny RFID disks. These can be tied to any Spotify track or playlist, so when you pop them into the little RFID-reading circle on the front of the box, music starts to play. Buttons on the faceplate let you skip tracks.
Apart from the wonderful look of the box, I like the concept a lot. You get the convenience and huge music library of Spotify, but the physicality and hand-crafted playlists come from the days of CDs, vinyl and cassette tapes.
That perforated front isn’t just a speaker grille, either. LEDs behind the holes light up in a kind of dot-matrix to make numbers, letter and icons to let your know what is happening inside. Here’s the video:
See Also:
Parra plans on continuing with his project, and has even been in contact with people from Spotify. Right now the box is little more than a peripheral that needs to be connected to a computer to play music, but those are just details. The idea itself is a good one. And add in some kind of AirPlay or Bluetooth audio capabilities and you have a super useful — not to mention hot-looking — wireless speaker for the home.
Spotify Radio [Jordi Parra / Zenona]
See Also:
- Hands-On With Spotify for iPhone: Is iTunes Dead?
- Six Million Songs in Your Pocket: Apple Approves Spotify for …
- The Hidden Secrets of Apple's AirPlay
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