Vinyl Years
A music quiz for the sofa: you hear 30 seconds of a song, guess who sings it and place it in the right spot in your row of years.
About the project
I wanted a music game to play at home on my own TV, with the remote and your voice. Nothing worked quite the way I wanted, so I made it. I described what I wanted and tested every step on the TV; Claude Code wrote the code. Since November 2026 it is free and public on GitHub, under the MIT licence.
How a turn works
First you guess who sings it. Right? Then you place the song between the years you already have. Say the exact year too and you get a gold tile worth double. The first to 10 points wins.
What it does
- 1 to 6 players, controlled with the remote and your voice (artist, year and your name)
- Your own music from a USB stick: each folder becomes a category, such as Disco or Movie songs
- Finds the release years itself: about 2,400 songs are built in, the rest it looks up on MusicBrainz in the background
- Follows your TV's language: Dutch or English
- No account, no ads, no tracking
Technology
An Android TV app in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, playback through AndroidX Media3, speech through the device's Google speech recognition. The game contains no music itself — music is copyrighted, so you use your own files. It runs on Android TV and Google TV, such as an Nvidia Shield or a Chromecast with Google TV.
Why this is in a portfolio
To show that AI is not only for automating work: you can also build something real and fun for your own living room. And you don't have to be twenty to do it — I'm 71.
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