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January 2, 2019 02:06 pm PST

Behold the jukebox of tomorrow

Chris Patty made a wooden mini-jukebox where you pick songs by swiping magnetic cards. It's like a prop from an old BBC sci-fi show about how great it would be to listen to music would be in 2019.

The Verge's Jacob Kastrenakes:

Patty created the jukebox as a Christmas gift for his father, after his family decided to only swap handmade presents this year. He later posted a short video of the creation to Twitter, where hes received enough positive responses that hes working on an open source version of the software and instructions so that fans can make their own. ...

I think [the response] speaks to a shared displeasure with the current state of our music services, Patty tells The Verge in an email. The limitless libraries inside Apple Music and Spotify cheapen the experience, he says. Theres something about the limiting factors of physical media that force you to choose ... the music that is most meaningful. And that kind of curation, I think, is something we all deeply miss.

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