SPEAKERBOX

Nice little project by Jordi Parra for his degree - a device for playing Spotify at home by connecting up playlists to a physical device using RFID tags.



As chappy-me-laddy makes clear

"...a standalone player that comes with 8 tags that can be linked to music. It can be for yourself, or to give it to somebody else as a present, giving you the chance to link music to the tags before giving it to that person… In a way, like we used to do with mixtapes, but now the “mixtapes” are RFID tags linked to music on Spotify.The RFID tags don’t store any music, they are just linked to a certain Spotify URI or search. Each tag has a unique ID, and each unique ID points to Spotify music. That’s it, the music is not in the tag, it’s on Spotify."

So there we are