Finding friends and familiar strangers based upon your taste in music, in the real world, is made easy. Publish your position in the map and set your musical presence. Your music automatically linkes to your location status such as your hangouts. As well as sharing your location, you can edit your status with music and text of what’s going on. A status symbol on your net openness show when you’re open and sharing, and to which extent. Text in how the music in this location makes you feel. You can also record and apply voice messages to whoever might find your spot.
The mobile phone is essential in our project since it is always carried with the user and act as a mp3 player combined with the ability to release location based data and drives social connections through messaging. Music combined with annotations such as feelings are mapped to locations and scenarios . Musical data can be recorded and stored on the mobile device and backend servers. We are loosely investigating certain technological challenges of mobile devices, but the major importance lies on the user related experiences.
Technicalities Chasing maps: the music service cache maps in your phone’s memory card, so they are not downloaded more than once (unless you clear the cache yourself). Location & Standby: If you have Location Sharing ON, your GPS (precise location) are updated to the server and shared with your friends periodically. And while the music service is in the background (or standby mode), your location is still updated (but this happens less often, for your phone saves battery.) So far, the music service does not load information from the server while it is kept in the background, it only updates again when it comes to foreground (a blinking icon on top-left corner indicates searching network) . Your location might seem old , when the application comes from background to foreground, until the foreground application re-acquires your position from GPS or network based location.
-future shmuture..
