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Ask HN: Play music remotely for my Dad

4 pointsby curiousfiddlerover 8 years ago
Hi all,<p>I wanted to get some ideas from you all on the best way to do this. My dad is suffering from Parkinson&#x27;s disease and lives in a different country (I live in San Francisco currently). He absolutely loves music. However, his caregivers are unaware of his music taste and in fact also don&#x27;t have a good music collection or access to Spotify etc to play music that my Dad will enjoy. I have seen music soothes him while he sleeps and I wish I could play a good playlist for him from here. Can you think of a good solution?<p>Thanks in advance!

7 comments

cauterizedover 8 years ago
Why not get him a tiny cheap media center PC or chromebook or such? You could probably even do this with a Raspberry Pi. Hook it up to a nice set of PC speakers. Set up remote access to it for yourself.<p>Then you can either download a selection of music to it or set it up to play from a streaming service just as you would on your own PC. If your dad wants to turn it on or off (or the caretakers need to), he can use the volume&#x2F;power knob on the speakers.<p>Or if he likes a popular genre of music (classical? Classic rock?), maybe just get him an FM radio?
linux-modderover 8 years ago
Are either of you familar with kodi or remote access &#x2F;streaming via ssh ? If so one simple option would be to setup a ssh tunnel thru to a music store on your network and have him connect to it via key (preferred) or passphrase ( less preferred for security but doable). that way you would be able to update and &#x2F; or curate playlists and or even allow him to remotely access a pandora &#x2F;spotify account form your network &#x2F; IP and not be technically voilating ToS.
dyejeover 8 years ago
Considering there&#x27;s no one technical on the other end to set stuff up, your best bet might just be to mail him a simple stereo and weekly mixed CDs.
kejaedover 8 years ago
Can you load up a cheap tablet with songs and send that to the caretakers to press play?
gt2over 8 years ago
not sure if it still is the case, but last time I checked logging into Spotify from a second account begins to control the other logged in account, complete with stopping and starting play.
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user7878over 8 years ago
Remote access like team viewer etc
qwertyuiop924over 8 years ago
Sounds like a job for Icecast to me.