System and method of providing music items to music renderers
First Claim
1. A music rendering system for transferring a music item between a computer device and a music renderer, comprising:
- a music controller program code operative to be executed on the computer device for managing at least one music item, the music controller program code operative when executed to retrieve attribute information from a music renderer when the music renderer is coupled with the computer device, wherein the attribute information provides an indication of attributes of the music renderer during the operation of the music controller program code, the music controller program code operative to change the data format or compression of the music item as a function of the retrieved attribute information; and
the music controller program code operative to transmit the changed music item to a music renderer.
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Abstract
A system of providing music items to music renderers. One embodiment of the system comprises an electronic music player that is connected to a plurality of music renderers via device drivers via a music renderer controller. The music renderer controller comprises a device integration application program interface for providing a standard interface for communicating with each of the device drivers. Each of the device drivers manage a selected music renderer. The device drivers receive the music items that are in a predefined format a store the music items on the music renderers upon requests from the electronic music player.
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18 Claims
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1. A music rendering system for transferring a music item between a computer device and a music renderer, comprising:
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a music controller program code operative to be executed on the computer device for managing at least one music item, the music controller program code operative when executed to retrieve attribute information from a music renderer when the music renderer is coupled with the computer device, wherein the attribute information provides an indication of attributes of the music renderer during the operation of the music controller program code, the music controller program code operative to change the data format or compression of the music item as a function of the retrieved attribute information; and
the music controller program code operative to transmit the changed music item to a music renderer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of transferring music items between a music renderer and an electronic music player comprising an output device, the method comprising:
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storing a music item in a memory of the electronic music player in a first predetermined format;
coupling the music renderer with the electronic music player;
retrieving attribute information about the music renderer;
displaying on the output device, as a result of the retrieved attribute information, data referencing the music renderer;
providing an indication to reformat the music item into a second predetermined format in accordance with the retrieved attribute information;
reformatting the music item into a second predetermined format; and
transferring the reformatted music item to the music renderer. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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