Digital customized audio products with user created data and associated distribution and production system
First Claim
1. Systems for creation of user-created, customized audio products at record stores and distribution sites from digital databases remotely located at a plurality of recording company sites, consisting of:
- means for creating addressable digital databases of audio information;
means for retrieving selected data/audio files from said databases;
means for transmitting said data/audio files to customers at record stores and distribution sites and interactively including customer-created data;
means for producing at faster than playback speed, at said record stores and distribution sites, customized playback media products, including optical compact discs (CDs) and digital audio tapes (DATs), containing compilations of said data/audio files, wherein said data/audio files consist of a plurality of previously recorded and customer-provided audio information and associated text/graphics material, at the level of individual songs and portions of voice data, text material, and still photographs, which are then assembled into a customized compilation to become said CD and DAT customized playback media products; and
means for collecting billing data and distributing invoices for royalties and other associated fees to owners and operators of the data/audio files and the transmitting and distribution systems.
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Abstract
A system for creation of user-selected customized audio products, defined as a plurality of songs from different recording artists recorded on a single compact disc (CD) or digital audio tape (DAT) cassette, at record store/distributor locations utilizing a digitized, central database with production hardware at distributor sites. Customized products consist of CD ROM or digital audio tapes (DAT) with music or voice content selected from large digital database, and are written at local workstations at distribution centers (such as record stores) which are connected by a high-speed communications network. The system records costs of the digitized audio (e.g., royalties for individual songs) for billing purposes, as well as producing descriptive material (contents, background information, and graphics for labels, etc.). Data transfer and production is faster than real-time, and thus will be a significant improvement and will tend to reduce current analog hardware-to-hardware transfer ("pirating") which violate copyright laws and is unauthorized. The system consists of integrated, state-of-the-art digital databases, communications networks, computer workstations, and unique workstation processing software, and provides an innovative product/service (individual customized albums or audio data compilations) which currently do not exist.
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9 Claims
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1. Systems for creation of user-created, customized audio products at record stores and distribution sites from digital databases remotely located at a plurality of recording company sites, consisting of:
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means for creating addressable digital databases of audio information; means for retrieving selected data/audio files from said databases; means for transmitting said data/audio files to customers at record stores and distribution sites and interactively including customer-created data; means for producing at faster than playback speed, at said record stores and distribution sites, customized playback media products, including optical compact discs (CDs) and digital audio tapes (DATs), containing compilations of said data/audio files, wherein said data/audio files consist of a plurality of previously recorded and customer-provided audio information and associated text/graphics material, at the level of individual songs and portions of voice data, text material, and still photographs, which are then assembled into a customized compilation to become said CD and DAT customized playback media products; and means for collecting billing data and distributing invoices for royalties and other associated fees to owners and operators of the data/audio files and the transmitting and distribution systems. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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3. A system as defined in claim I wherein said means for transmitting said data/audio files includes the encryption of data and subsequent decoding at the record stores and distribution sites or media product production site.
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