An iPod accessory I’d like to see: iPod DJ
I was walking around the city listening to music when I came up with the following idea for an iPod accessory. It doesn’t currently exist, but maybe if I put my idea out there, someone will make it.
Problem: I have too much music on my iPod. I collect music faster than I can listen to it all. When I listen to my ipod using the “shuffle songs” mode, I often have no idea what I’m listening to. Having to constantly retrieve my iPod to learn the artist/track name is inconvenient and bothersome.
Proposed solution: Create a 3rd-party hardware device that uses voice synthesis to periodically “read back” artist and song names. Other features:
- It would allow you to set the frequency of song re-caps. For example, I could set it to only interrupt the music every 3 songs.
- It would allow you to specify whether you want to hear just song names, artist names, album names, or a combination.
- You could also specify if you want the information read before or after a song plays, or randomly.
- It might also provide some basic voiceover data, where applicable, such as the time, or miles run (if being used with the Nike accessory).
- It could contain an “interrupt alarm” which the user could set.
- It could allow the user to select one of 3 or 4 voices to use, and well as reading rate.
- Configurations and settings would be done via the ipod (similar to how the Apple FM receiver attachment works).
I envision it connecting through the data connection on the bottom of an iPod, and be sandwiched between the iPod and the headphones, like so:
Song recaps would be short and formulaic, such as:
“That was song3 by artist3. Before that we heard song2 by artist2. Starting us off in this set was song1 by artist1. The time is now time.”
What do you think? Are there others out there that would find this useful?
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