Method for transcribing music from music CD to MP3 player

• US 20080039963A1
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: My3ia Technology Limited
• Original Assignee: My3ia Technology Limited
• Inventors: Shih, Hsuanming
• Application Number:
  US11/343,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/00057 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio layer III [MP3]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for transcribing music from music CD to a MP3 player which comprises after the MP3 player being connected with the computer under the state of running through a standard data interface, the computer sending an enquiring message of the device'"'"'s type to the MP3 player; the MP3 player responding the information of device'"'"'s type to the computer; if the message representing the device with autorun function, the computer looking up and running the autorun file in the MP3 player, and autostarting the program for transcribing music data, the looking module of the program for transcribing music data looking up whether there is a music CD, if yes, then the taking module of the program for transcribing music data taking the track data of music from the music CD; the converting module of the program for transcribing music data converting the taken track data into the music file of MP3 format; the storing module storing the file of MP3 format in the MP3 player. Using the method provided by the present invention the user can easily converts the music of the music CD in the computer into the MP3 format file and stores it in the MP3 player.

Claims

1. A method for transcribing music from music CD to a MP3 player, wherein computer communicates with the MP3 player based on the standard data interface after the MP3 player is connected with the computer under the state of running through a standard data interface, and the method comprises the following steps:

Step (1) the computer sending an enquiring message of the device'"'"'s type to the MP3 player;

Step (2) after the MP3 player receiving the enquiring message of the device'"'"'s type, responding the information of device'"'"'s type to the computer;

Step (3) the computer discriminating whether the message of device'"'"'s type represents the device with autorun function or not, if “

yes”

, then executing step (5), else executing step (4);

Step (4) the computer setting the MP3 player to the device without autorun function, ending;

Step (5) the computer setting the device attribute of the MP3 player to the device with autorun function;

Step (6) the computer looking up whether there'"'"'s autorun file available in the MP3 player or not, if “

yes”

, then executing step (7);

else ending;

Step (7) the computer running the script of autorun file to auto-start the program of transcription of music data;

Step (8) the looking module of the program for transcribing music data looking up whether there is a music CD available in the CD driver of the computer or not, if “

yes”

, then executing step (9), else ending;

Step (9) the taking module of the program for transcribing music data taking the track data of music from the music CD;

Step (10) the converting module of the program for transcribing music data converting the taken track data into the music file of MP3 format;

Step (11) the storing module of the program for transcribing music data storing the file of MP3 format in the MP3 player, ending.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step (2) is concretely described as following:

after the MP3 player receives the enquiring message of device'"'"'s type, it maps the startup data area of the MP3 player into CD-ROM, and informs the information which is that the device is CD-ROM to the computer.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a control key of the MP3 player is set to be a auto-start key of the program for transcribing music data after the MP3 player is connected with the computer under the state of running through a standard data interface, and the step (2) is concretely described as following:

after the MP3 player receives the enquiring message of device'"'"'s type, said MP3 player detects whether the control key is under the state of autostart of the program for transcribing music data, if yes, then responds to the computer the device'"'"'s type message which represents that the device is CD-ROM;

else responds to the computer the device'"'"'s type message which represents that the device is flash-based storing module.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the step of said set is as following:

a control key of the MP3 player is multi-used set to the autostart key of the program for transcribing music data.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a control data is stored in a storage of said MP3 player, said step (2) is concretely described as following:

after receiving the enquiring message of device'"'"'s type, said MP3 player detects whether said control data represents said MP3 player is under the autostart state of the program for transcribing music data, if “

yes”

, then responds to the computer the device'"'"'s type message which represents that the device is CD-ROM;

else responds to the computer the device'"'"'s type message which represents that the device is flash-based storing module.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in said step (8), if there is a music CD, then user is prompted to choose music needed to be transcribed and executes step (9);

said step (9) is concretely described as following;

the taking module of the program for transcribing music data takes the track data of the music selected by the user from the music CD.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the taking module in said step (9) takes the track data of the music by turns, every time takes the track data of one music, outputs the data to the converting module, and then takes track data of next music till track data of all music is finished taking;

the converting module in said step (10) converts the taken track data into MP3 format file by turns, every time finishing taking one music, outputs the converted MP3 format file to the storing module, and then converts track data of next music till finishes converting the track data of all music;

the storing module in said step (11) stores the MP3 format file by turns.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the storing module in said step (11) includes the first storage sub-module and the second storage sub-module, said storing module storing the MP3 format file by turns is concretely described as following:

the first storage sub-module builds a file folder in the computer locally, and stores MP3 format file of each piece of music in local file folder of the computer;

after finishing storing the MP3 format file of the first music in the first storage sub-module, the second storage sub-module begins to copy the MP3 format file in said local file folder of the computer to the MP3 player by turns till finishing copying all files of MP3 format.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said first storage sub-module building a file folder in the computer locally is concretely described as following:

said first storage sub-module sets the file folder in the computer locally according to the serial number of said music CD.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said storing MP3 format file of each piece of music in local file folder of the computer is concretely described as following:

storing the MP3 format file of each piece of music in the local file folder of the computer according to the music name.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said second storage sub-module beginning to copy the MP3 format file in said local file folder of the computer to the MP3 player by turns is concretely described as following:

said second storage sub-module sets up a file folder named with serial number of the music CD, and copies the MP3 format files in said local file folder of the computer to the file folder named with serial number of the music CD in said MP3 player.