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.-- hippo, Mar 18 2004 GPS Walkman http://www.halfbake.../idea/GPS_20Walkmanthis idea by [coinop29] is only slightly related [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] Mobile History Channel http://www.halfbake...20History_20Channelyour 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] Firefox location plug-in. http://news.bbc.co....hnology/7659497.stm [DrBob, Oct 13 2008] sheena easton "Working nine to five" doobie brothers "long train running" gene "sleep well tonight"-- jonthegeologist, Mar 18 2004 [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...-- timbeau, Mar 18 2004 I like this a lot. OK, so time dependant track selection is a bonus feature, but that can be added into the original idea.
<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.
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>
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.
That said I await the arrival of the GPS-iPod with GPS Walkman Radio built in.-- afrocelt, Mar 18 2004 Yeah - but on the other hand I did shoot the sheriff-- hippo, Mar 20 2004 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.-- hippo, Feb 14 2007 Or Edwin Starr, whenever you are 25 miles from anywhere at all.-- calum, Feb 14 2007 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.-- methinksnot, Feb 14 2007 ...or The Proclaimers when you're 500 miles from somewhere I couldn't quite make out. Good point, [methinksnot].-- hippo, Feb 15 2007 ... Or Gene Pitney when you are about a days travel from Tulsa.-- Jinbish, Jul 14 2008 Gene Pitney GPS Announcement: At the third stroke, you will be "Only..." <click> "thirty one" <click> "...hours from Tulsa." <click> "Precisely."-- zen_tom, Jul 14 2008 I'm already there![+]-- jaksplat, Oct 13 2008 Eminently bakeable. Perhaps not with iPod's but certainly with handhelds. The Mozilla tie up with Skyhook, announced last week, means that you can embed location tracking into a browser (if it's Firefox, that is). The hard bit is catalogueing music tracks against co-ordinates. <Adds to list> Anywhere across the channel, if your location signal cuts out, "Lost in France" by Bonnie Tyler.-- DrBob, Oct 13 2008 random, halfbakery