Discovering music preferences and controlling a music playlist

This method was designed to allow an individual to indicate a preference for a certain style of music without the use of language or significant movement.

Find a media player such as VLC (a cross platform media player, Google it) that has music track advance buttons that will not scan through the song when the button is held down. iTunes and Windows Media player do scan and will not work for this strategy.

Import a large and diverse collection of music with greatly contrasting styles. For VLC just add a folder of music and select “random” and “repeat all.” Start playing the music and using switch access that activates the left mouse button, hover the pointer over the advance button.

As the music plays, pay close attention to what songs the individual pauses on or listens to in full. This may give you some idea of what they enjoy listening to.

This video demonstrates how to use VLC with the switch: