MEDIA SYSTEM WITH PLAYING COMPONENT

• US 20100186579A1
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Magnaforte LLC
• Original Assignee: Magnaforte LLC
• Inventors: Schnitman, Myles
• Granted Patent: US 8,841,536 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/625
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/08 by combining tones G10H1/14, G10H1/16 take precedence; chord G10H1/38
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/125 Medley, i.e. linking parts of different musical pieces in one single piece, e.g. sound collage, DJ mix
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/005 Non-interactive screen display of musical or status data
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/135 Library retrieval index, i.e. using an indexing scheme to efficiently retrieve a music piece

Abstract

This document describes a device for receiving and displaying graphical representations of digital music tracks and their components (in the form of digital interactive phrases, or “DIPs”). The device allows a user to play the music tracks using a new format, blend, mix or mash different music tracks together, via a digital interactive phrase process, and produce and listen to the blended, mixed or mashed digital music.

Claims

1. A media device comprising:

a player device adapted to play, mix and store a plurality of discrete digital interactive phrases, and to display a representation thereof; and

a plurality of media components, each media component storing a set of the plurality of discrete digital interactive phrases, and having a physical and data exchange connection with the player device to transfer the digital interactive phrases to the player device for the playing, mixing and storing of the digital interactive phrases.

2. The media device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the player device includes a graphical user interface having a first region for displaying a representation of the plurality of discrete digital interactive phrases.

3. The media device in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least some of the plurality of media components comprise a memory circuit encased in a housing.

4. The media device in accordance with claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of discrete digital interactive phrases is encoded with a unique code.

5. The media device in accordance with claim 4, wherein each unique code is based on one or more of a set of musical characteristics that consists of:

tone, tempo, key, time signature, and genre.

6. The media device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the player device further includes an input interface for receiving user input commands.

7. A method of processing and playing media files, the method comprising:

storing media source material as a plurality of digital interactive phrases on two or more media components having a housing that contains a memory and an electronic interface;

connecting at least two media components with a media device, the media device having a graphical user interface that displays the media source material from each of the connected media components; and

combining user-selected digital interactive phrases from the at least two connected media components to form a new media file representing a mixed or mashed version of the user-selected digital interactive phrases.

8. The method in accordance with claim 7, further comprising playing, using the media device, the new media file through at least speakers housed by the media device.

9. The method in accordance with claim 7, wherein each digital interactive phrase is a part of a digital audio file.

10. The method in accordance with claim 7, further comprising representing, in the graphical user interface, key and time characteristics of each digital interactive phrase.