In my previous blog post I wrote about the popularity of musical board games and the possibility of creating an open source variant. Today I put my money where my mouth is and share a first version of an open source song QR scanner.
A demo of the web application can be found here: play.blindsongscanner.com
The project is on GitHub: github.com/Theys96/blind-song-scanner. The functionalities are extremely simple:
- Log in with a Spotify Premium account.
- Scan a QR code with the URL of a Spotify track.
- The app immediately starts playing the track without revealing any information about it.
This does make it possible to print own tiles with QR codes, with the title, artist, year, etc. of the song on the back. A next step is an application to easily create such tiles for printing. In addition, this application could use some attention to become more stable and easier to maintain.
For the initial design, I used an AI tool: bolt.new. I was amazed at how easy it is with this to quickly create a first draft for a web application. UI and UX are not my strong points, and this way this app looks quite nice anyway.