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This is so cool! I do something similar for music - I have posters up for albums, and a small NFC tag is embedded behind the poster, so tapping my phone to the
by sodality2 2y ago
This is so cool! I do something similar for music - I have posters up for albums, and a small NFC tag is embedded behind the poster, so tapping my phone to the poster’s corner and clicking the notification begins playing it immediately. I really want to make a collection of cassette-or-record-style plastic cards with album art and NFC tags, and hook it up to a speaker, so I can place my album on a pedestal and it starts playing immediately.
- SamBam 2y agoWhat app do you have on your phone to do this?
- sodality2 2y agoI use "NFC Tools" to write the URL, which I copy the album/song URL from Spotify and embed it. When I hold my phone near it, the URL appears in the notifications, and clicking it opens it in Spotify, which then starts playing it. I have a bag of 100 tags I got from a friend so no shortage there.
- fragmede 2y agohttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfc-tools/id1252962749 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfc-tools/id1252962749 is the one I use.
- sodality2 2y agoYep, that's the one! Very simple to use
- hairywalt 2y agoLove the simplicity of this. Out of interest, do you trigger just the web player or is there a URL pattern that can launch onto a specific device?
- sodality2 2y agoThe regular https://open.spotify.com https://open.spotify.com URL is registered to be handled by the Spotify app on iOS devices, so no bouncing from Safari - it opens straight away in Spotify. Nothing to play on a specific speaker, though - but my homepod mini is nearby so a tap to my poster then a tap to my speaker starts my listening session.
- hairywalt 2y agoMakes sense, cheers. Might give it a go
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoI have NFC Tools Pro from these guys, https://www.wakdev.com/en/ https://www.wakdev.com/en/ (but affiliated); I'm assuming you're referring to them. They're on Google Play store too.
- 1123581321 2y agoGreat idea. You could tag vinyl sleeves, too, so you could play from them as you look at them on the floor. It’s digital-only but I have folders of records on my phone Home Screen. They’re shortcuts that play the album, and the album art is the icon.
- zigman1 2y agoWhat a great idea! Thanks! it never occurred to me to do this
- jorgeyp 2y agoI do the same for my CDs. I have them ripped on Plexamp and I place the NFC tags inside a corner of the booklet. So I tap the phone to the corner of a CD case instead. But my plan is to build a device like OP's so I don't even need the phone.
- showsover 2y agoI'd love to do something similar for myself, but having never worked with NFC I see there are tons of different options. Would you mind mentioning what tags you got?
- sodality2 2y agoAn Amazon search for "NFC 215 round cards" on Amazon should get you there! There's also stickers if you want something more permanent.
- llasse 2y agoI love vinyl so I built m daughter a wooden vinyl player with wooden discs that carry an embedded nfc so now she can put some vinyl on herself :))