DYNAMIC CONTROL OF SONG FREQUENCY IN A PLAYLIST PROVIDED THROUGH A MUSIC SERVICE

• US 20120023405A1
• Filed: 10/13/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beats Music, LLC (Apple Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MOG Incorporated (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: HYMAN, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US13/272,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20120023405A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/635 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content

Abstract

A method includes inputting a seed data through a media interface associated with a music service on a music device. The seed data is a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service. The method also includes dynamically controlling a frequency of songs associated with the seed data in the playlist through a user interface of the media interface. The frequency of songs is a number of primary songs and a number of secondary songs in the playlist.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

inputting a seed data through a media interface associated with a music service on a music device, the seed data being a driver of creation of a playlist associated with the music service; and

dynamically controlling a frequency of songs associated with the seed data in the playlist through a user interface of the media interface, the frequency of songs being a number of primary songs and a number of secondary songs in the playlist, and the dynamic control including;

determining a set of at least one of primary songs and secondary songs based on the frequency obtained through the user interface, the primary songs being directly related to the seed data and the secondary songs being indirectly related to the seed data;

transmitting metadata associated with the at least one of the primary songs and the secondary songs to be rendered on the playlist; and

providing a capability to stream the at least one of the primary songs and the secondary songs through the media interface on the music device.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising controlling the frequency of the primary songs and the secondary songs in the playlist through a slider on the user interface having an axis across which the slider is configured to be moved.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

caching information associated with the at least one of the primary songs and the secondary songs; and

updating the cached information when at least one of;

the frequency of songs associated with the seed data is changed through the media interface and the seed data is changed through the media interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the primary songs are associated with an artist and the secondary songs are associated with at least one another artist similar to the artist associated with the primary songs, and the method further comprises:

determining the secondary songs based on at least one of;

a popularity of the at least one another artist among users of the music service, a chart popularity, a time frame of the artist associated with the primary songs, a genre of the artist associated with the primary songs and a collaboration between the at least one another artist and the artist associated with the primary songs.

5. The method of claim 3, comprising dynamically changing the seed data during the rendering of the playlist by utilizing a song of the at least one of the primary songs and the secondary songs as a new seed data.