RPi-Jukebox-RFID

yes! PhonieBox - But you built it yourself [0]. You make your own cards with nfc/rfid stickers in them, put a nfc/rfid reader somewhere nice, and hooked up to phoniebox rpi with spotify to a nice sound system. https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

These are also easy to DIY with a raspberry pi, rfid card reader, some blank cards, and phoniebox [0] for the software. I don't have much electronics experience and had it up and running fairly easily for under $40. [0] https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

I think mentioned elsewhere here, https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID is great for this. I did something similar with an opp shop Fisher Price[0] record player, with the RFID reader under the turntable and each 'card' is a laminated record cover with the rfid stuck on it. Lots of good photos of different implementations in their issue threads. We also use it for kids podcasts (autodownloads them weekly). I added a TTS script that generates a friendly audio message from a text file that can be triggered to play from an alarm or for a specific record. This announces the weather with a Dad joke at the end. I tried to automate the last one with various sources (db, LLM, etc - but felt too cold, so I just dictate it to the server from the phone) and usually add a customised message about our family calendar (wear a jacket for rain. c

There are several projects here in germany doing similar things. There is https://tonies.com, which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable (https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud). Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmaker to print labels for audio books and music: https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/, but in the end it took too much time to print so many labels :-)

There is an OS alternative: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID Built one for my niece. She liked it.

Great post, thank you. I had a similar experience a while ago and believe me that building such a thing is a SERIOUS investment in time - especially as a parent. While admiring the effort and the result, I can't recommend anyone to go for such a self-made device, if it is not for the learning experience and the fun of the project. I've built a "Phoniebox"[1] and a "Tonuino"[2] and both were used pretty heavily by my kids. The biggest issue I experienced is the "creation" of media. While this should be an easy task, it just takes it's time. Creating the cartridge, printing the image, copying the file, etc... As my daughter was getting older (>4) it was so much easier to just buy a CD Player and used CDs. In the meantime we use an old Smartphone (offline) as spare device with Audiobookshelf to sync the media locally and VLC Media Player to

Phoniebox is what I went with. Very fun to build, highly customizable and good for both beginner plug n play options. I enjoyed taking the old Fisher Price music box record player apart and turning it into an NFC based record player. Lots of other great examples in the yearly showcase threads https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/discussions/211...

There's also an RPI based version at https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

Saving the next person some immediate confusion an extra cliks :) :) http://phoniebox.de/index-en.html https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

I came across many audio "projects", but none of them was an out of the box solution that just worked... every project requires some fiddling and extensive config. Anyways, here are some links: https://volumio.com/ https://moodeaudio.org/ https://www.picoreplayer.org/ https://www.pimusicbox.com/ https://www.runeaudio.com/ https://www.max2play.com/ (commercial) https://github.com/tuarrep/sounddrop https://github.com/mariolukas/HydraPlay https://github.com/beejones/ZonePlayer https://github.com/jaecksch/snapcastbox http://strobe.audio/ https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID https://github.com/skalavala/Multi-Room-Audio-Centralized-Au... https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Build-your-open-source-m... http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download As DAC for Raspberry the IQaudio DAC Pro seems to be highly r

Interesting. I came across some other interesting audio projects with RPi. For my daugther I set up a "Phoniebox" (RFID based audio player with buttons, https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID). Then there is volumio (https://volumio.org/), which i found to be pretty slow on older RPis. And "SSRPAR" (Bluetooth-Receiver, https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audi...) which can be used to build a pretty good car audio host, but no longer actively maintained.