Music steering with automatically detected musical attributes
US8642872B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 4, 2008 |
| Grant date | Feb 4, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 16, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10H2240/131
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Described is a technology by which a playback list comprising similar songs is automatically built based on automatically detected/generated song attributes, such as by extracting numeric features of each song. The attributes may be downloaded from a remote connection, and/or may be locally generated on the playback device. To build a playlist, a seed song's attributes may be compared against attributes of other songs to determine which other songs are similar to the seed song and thus included in the playlist. Another way to build a playlist is based on similarity of songs to a set of user provided-attributes, such as corresponding to moods or usage modes such as “resting” “reading” “jogging” or “driving” moods/modes. The playlist may be dynamically adjusted based on user interaction with the device, such as when a user skips a song, queues a song, or dequeues a song.
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