Hi folks,
I've just signed up here and in fact just learned that there's such a thing as Kindle jailbreaking/customizing, but I've had an idea that I think would be extremely cool to anyone who enjoys reading while listening to music, & am interested in if this would be at all possible to implement (for the record I do UX and visual design for iOS apps, no coding at all).
Idea is this: A "soundtrack" created specifically and manually for a book, that consists of a series of playlists for different settings or actions (e.g. fight scenes), etc. These playlists are live-synced to your progress in a book, so as you read you'll hear music specifically selected for the scene, setting, etc that you're currently reading. Playlists probably shuffle, and the transition from one to another is probably a smooth long crossfade. I'm thinking playlists are assembled from various movie/game/etc soundtracks, licensing issues aside.
Would involve a (crowd-sourced?) "book map" for each compatible book tying playlists to certain stretches of the book, then the playlists could get as specific as wanted; could have a generic fantasy fight scene playlist to cover a large # of books or one specifically created for one scene in a book (e.g. LOTR fight scene music from the movie OST, for the same fight scene in the book).
So as you read about characters exploring a mystical arabian (or whatever) city, stuff like this plays. Then they go get in a fight, arabian-sort of fight music plays, then they leave & travel thru a desert and stuff like this plays. And on and on for the whole book. You can listen to the Harry Potter movie soundtracks on shuffle while reading Harry Potter, but imagine how much better it would be if they were specifically ordered and curated based on where you are in the book.
Anybody else think this would be super cool, and anyone have any idea if this is at all doable? From some quick googling it seems there's no official API that allows access to reading progress, but perhaps there is a way if jailbroken.
I've just signed up here and in fact just learned that there's such a thing as Kindle jailbreaking/customizing, but I've had an idea that I think would be extremely cool to anyone who enjoys reading while listening to music, & am interested in if this would be at all possible to implement (for the record I do UX and visual design for iOS apps, no coding at all).
Idea is this: A "soundtrack" created specifically and manually for a book, that consists of a series of playlists for different settings or actions (e.g. fight scenes), etc. These playlists are live-synced to your progress in a book, so as you read you'll hear music specifically selected for the scene, setting, etc that you're currently reading. Playlists probably shuffle, and the transition from one to another is probably a smooth long crossfade. I'm thinking playlists are assembled from various movie/game/etc soundtracks, licensing issues aside.
Would involve a (crowd-sourced?) "book map" for each compatible book tying playlists to certain stretches of the book, then the playlists could get as specific as wanted; could have a generic fantasy fight scene playlist to cover a large # of books or one specifically created for one scene in a book (e.g. LOTR fight scene music from the movie OST, for the same fight scene in the book).
So as you read about characters exploring a mystical arabian (or whatever) city, stuff like this plays. Then they go get in a fight, arabian-sort of fight music plays, then they leave & travel thru a desert and stuff like this plays. And on and on for the whole book. You can listen to the Harry Potter movie soundtracks on shuffle while reading Harry Potter, but imagine how much better it would be if they were specifically ordered and curated based on where you are in the book.
Anybody else think this would be super cool, and anyone have any idea if this is at all doable? From some quick googling it seems there's no official API that allows access to reading progress, but perhaps there is a way if jailbroken.