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You're on the train to work (Alexis
Corner:
"Long Black Train", The Cure: "Another
journey by train"), you travel through
Aldgate East (The Small Faces:
"Itchycoo Park"), you arrive at Waterloo
station (Abba: "Waterloo"), you get to
work (Roy
Orbison: "Working for the Man"), etc.
GPS Walkman
http://www.halfbake.../idea/GPS_20Walkman
this idea by [coinop29] is only slightly related [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Mobile History Channel
http://www.halfbake...20History_20Channel
your idea could be used to implement this idea by [grippit]. Simply download a set of spoken-word tracks for a given area. [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Reminded me of "Car Song Perfect end"
Car_20Song_20Perfect_20end
[Dub, Feb 14 2007]
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sheena easton "Working nine to five"
doobie brothers "long train running"
gene "sleep well tonight"
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[RodsTiger] or even location, time and
dorection...you could be working shifts
or going IN to Waterloo to watch a
concert at the South Bank... |
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I like this a lot. OK, so time dependant track selection is a bonus feature, but that can be added into the original idea. |
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<personal rant or idea> I got my self a mini disc player a few years ago that could record at lp4. "Great," I thought, "I can fit various albums onto 1 disc and still carry a large collection around but save space." Fair enough, but what about wanting to fall asleep to an album mid-disc with out having to listen to the rest of the disc. OK, so you can program a set of tracks to play, but when the disc is changed that program is lost. As preferred volume and equalizer settings are saved to disc, I have been wondering why you cant save preferred programs as well. |
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I assume that the music producing industry has been against making it too easy to listen to discreet albums on a disc, etc. </personal rant or idea> |
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Enough of that. Even with self-defined sub albums on a minidisc or iPod the GPS iPod still has advantages... Depending on whoever chooses what is played in which locations it could create the impression of walking through a soundtrack or music video for the area. OK I am stretching things but that raises a point. Is the music I listen to in an area dictated by someone else or can I assign tracks to areas. I assume the second is how this works. |
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That said I await the arrival of the GPS-iPod with GPS Walkman Radio built in. |
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I could see this sliding rapidly towards "LIST" status, until [afrocelt] went off-topic. |
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Yeah - but on the other hand I did
shoot the sheriff |
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I was just about to post a new idea: "satnav-based
in-car music selector" and did a search and found this, which I completely failed to remember posting. Anyway, the in-car satnav version would play music based on your location, ABBA's "Waterloo" when travelling through Belgium, the Pogues "Transmetropolitan" in London, the
best-forgotten Art Garfunkel track "99 Miles from LA" when you're 99 miles from LA, etc. |
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Or Edwin Starr, whenever you are 25 miles from anywhere at all. |
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Make sure, hippo, that your in-car satnav version is fully compatible with the Fatal Auto Collision Song module. I too would hate to die listening to Barry Manilow just because I happen to have an accident wilst driving to the beach. |
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...or The Proclaimers when you're 500 miles from somewhere I couldn't quite make out. Good point, [methinksnot]. |
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... Or Gene Pitney when you are about a days travel from Tulsa. |
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Gene Pitney GPS Announcement: At the third stroke, you will be "Only..." <click> "thirty one" <click> "...hours from Tulsa." <click> "Precisely." |
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