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Subject: Re: CD player UI for toddlers
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 21:56:24 -0700
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Mr Fork writes:
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Jim Whitehead writes:
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> > For toddlers, pressing play must cause the music to start immediately,
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> > within half a second, for the toddler to get the causality and not press
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> the
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> > button multiple times.
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> Or some sound indicating that the music will start real soon now.
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A tonal countdown would be nice.
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> > What would the ideal toddler CD player be like? It would immediately start
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> > playing a CD after it was loaded.
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> It'd be an MP3 player with solid state storage... instant on.
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Hmm. Seems like every CD player should include the
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capability to rip, encode, and cache the last few CDs
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inserted.
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Playback would then never need to face seek delays...
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after the initial ripping, the only use of the laser
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pickup would be recognizing which CD is inserted --
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which might be doable faster than a seek-and-start-at-
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first-track operation.
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You could also take the CD out while it is "playing".
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Hmm. If the CD is still in the cache, maybe you don't
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even have to insert it. Or choose it from a step-through
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UI. Instead, you just wave it at an electronic eye of
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some sort... and the player recognizes it from the
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silkscreening. Kids would like that. "Play this," they'd
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say, facing the CD at the player, and the player would
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start immediately.
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- Gordon
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