[Fenrisulfr]

I'm an avid gym-goer and I like the music on in the background. I don't wear earbuds because I value "awareness". I like being able to hear other happenings around me without them being blocked out. Same idea for public transportation. Anyways, the employees at my gym just play Spotify Premium and are friendly enough to take requests. Maybe you can ask your gym to play some music you like?

[bogomipz]

>"Anyways, the employees at my gym just play Spotify Premium and are friendly enough to take requests. Maybe you can ask your gym to play some music you like?"

Does this strike you as a viable solution? Everyone goes to the front desk and requests that the gym play music to suit their personal taste? How does that work out for the rest of the people in the gym that have different musical tastes?

Also wearing earbuds doesn't mean someone doesn't value "awareness." I can listen to my music and not compromise my visual awareness in the least.

[jimmaswell]

99% don't care, so the one person who does doing so is viable, yes.

[bogomipz]

>"99% don't care"

Do you have some data supporting this statistic?

Just an exercise I suggest you approach the staff at your local gym and ask them to play personal DJ for you. I'm fairly confident what the outcome of that interaction will be.

[jimmaswell]

I meant 99% of patrons aren't bothered by the music, if you were taking that differently. In that person's situation, apparently yes, they changed the music for him.

[Fenrisulfr]

I didn't say that people who wear earbuds don't value awareness. I was just describing my particular preferences. Also, yes it is a viable solution. I've seen it work at a handful of gyms. Those who don't like it wear earbuds or leave the gym.

[jxramos]

A jukebox app for a phone could be an interesting thing for a gym. Maybe only on certain days/times.

[lemcoe9]

You would need to pay Muzak or SiriusXM or another vetted provider of public music. Businesses (bars, hair salons, gyms, etc) cannot simply play Spotify or Pandora in their business, unless they plan on getting sued by BMI and/or ASCAP.

Muzak and SiriusXM have ready-made solutions for exactly what these sorts of businesses are looking for.

[acct1771]

AMI Music?

[dpcx]

iTunes used to have this. You could vote from your phone for a song playing on a PC. It was pretty neat when DJing for kids parties.

[dropit_sphere]

>Anyways, the employees at my gym just play Spotify Premium and are friendly enough to take requests.

Not a Spotify user so I don't know what I'm talking about, but it sounds like this might be a feature they could implement...some sort of "Jukebox mode," whereby anyone w/the Spotify app could make requests for the local area, given the right password (put on a whiteboard or something, the way we do for wifi).

[Fenrisulfr]

I agree, I think there is a need for one of the big music streaming services to create a geo-fenced (or Wifi-fenced?) jukebox system. Can be used for bars, gyms, house parties, etc. Similar to Chromecast, but with filters to make sure the public doesn't troll the system. Such as:

a) Having a pre-made list of songs that users can select from. Something like a list of 1,000s of Top 40s going back a few decades, or a selection of the top 10 hits from a list of grammy-winning artists, being able to split the songs into genres and select certain genres, etc. The idea is to not allow users to submit songs that fits the atmosphere of the venue (e.g. prevent ambient music in a gym, only allow country in a southern bar, etc)

b) Preventing the same song playing within the same hour, and possibly preventing the same artist from playing ~3x in a row

c) Preventing users from submitting songs consecutively, such as 1 submission per every 30 minutes d) Monetize by allowing small fees to push your jukebox songs to the top of the queue ($0.99?)

[acct1771]

AMI Music

[jpindar]

There are public playlists that anyone can edit, which are cool if the people using them generally like the same sort of music. They might not work as well if the people have widely varying tastes.

[orev]

There are many open air headphones that allow the sound through. But you can’t use them in gyms if you want to hear your own music because of what they are blasting.