Player and playing method and program

• US 20070061497A1
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takatsuka, Susumu
• Granted Patent: US 7,725,204 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/100
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data

Abstract

A player includes a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data, and a play control section configured to: cause the playing section to play contents data based on a first list selected from the multiple lists, determine whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the playing section or not, extract attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result, select a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information from the multiple lists, and control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data on the selected second list.

Claims

1. A player comprising:

a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data; and

a play control section configured to;

cause the playing section to play contents data based on a first list selected from the multiple lists;

determine whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the playing section or not;

extract attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result;

select a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information from the multiple lists; and

control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data on the selected second list.

2. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the play control section controls to automatically start the play based on the contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information on the second list.

3. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined condition is based on attribute information of last played contents data on the first list.

4. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined condition is based on rating information in attribute information of contents data on the first list.

5. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the second list is based on the history of play of the contents data by the playing section.

6. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the second list is based on contents data obtained more lately.

7. The player according to claim 6,

wherein the contents data obtained more lately is subscription contents data.

8. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the first list is a list based on the selection by a user, and the second list is a list of subscription contents;

and

the play control section automatically moves to the play of the subscription contents when playing all of contents on the list based on the selection by a user completes.

9. A playing method comprising the steps of:

playing contents data based on a first list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data;

determining whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the step of playing or not;

extracting attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result by the step of determining;

selecting a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the attribute information extracted by the step of extracting from the multiple lists; and

automatically starting playing the contents data on the second list selected by the step of selecting.

10. A medium including a playing program causing a computer apparatus to implement a playing method comprising the steps of:

playing contents data based on a first list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data;

determining whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the step of playing or not;

extracting attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result by the step of determining;

selecting a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the attribute information extracted by the step of extracting from the multiple lists; and

automatically starting playing the contents data on the second list selected by the step of selecting.