Personalized media stations

A media station generation system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the media station generation system to:
• analyze, in an offline process not related to a request for generating a media station, a media library and media item experience history to generate a database of user preferences associated with a particular user account, wherein the media item experience history includes data regarding media item experience data within the media library, media items presented to the particular user account, and media items experienced within an online store;
• analyze, in the offline process, an online store database that includes metadata for media items targeted to the particular user account for purchase in an online store;
• generate in the offline process, a similarity database that includes a plurality of clusters that group a collection of media items based on determined similarities, wherein the similarity database comprises a plurality of feature vectors that represent attributes for the clusters;
• create, in an online process caused by the request and by a media station generation process, a media station in accordance with a programming model having a set of ordered programming slots and a plurality of media selection rules respectively assigned to each programming slot from the set of ordered programming slots, the media station generation process comprises instructions to:
• select, based on a first media selection rule assigned to a first programming slot and the similarity database, a first media item to be performed in the first programming slot, wherein the first media item is associated with a first data vector that is similar to one of the feature vectors in the similarity database;
• and
• select, based on a second media selection rule assigned to a second programming slot ordered after the first programming slot, a second media item that matches user preferences stored within the user preference database for the particular user account;
• and
• send the selection of the second media item to a client device for performance of the second media item in the second programming slot,
• wherein the second media selection rule is different than the first media selection rule, and wherein the second media selection rule selects the second media item from a different database of the similarity database and the online store database than dictated by the first media selection rule.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:

• analyze, in an offline process not related to a request for generating a media station, a media library and media item experience history associated with a particular user account to generate a user preferences database, wherein the media item experience history includes data regarding media item experience data within the media library, media items presented to the particular user account, and media items experienced within an online store;
• analyze, in the offline process, the online store database of media items targeted to the particular user account for purchase in the online store,
• generate in the offline process, a similarity database that includes a plurality of clusters that group a collection of media items based on determined similarities, wherein the similarity database comprises a plurality of feature vectors that represent attributes for the clusters:
• create, in an online process trigger by the request and by a media station generation process, a media station in accordance with a programming model having a set of ordered programming slots and a plurality of media selection rules respectively assigned to each programming slot from the set of ordered programming slots, the media station generation process comprises instructions to:
• select, based on a first media selection rule assigned to a first programming slot and the similarity database, a first media item to be performed in the first programming slot;
• and
• select, based on a second media selection rule assigned to a second programming slot ordered after the first programming slot, a second media item that matches user preferences stored within the user preference database for the particular user account;
• and
• send the selection of the second media item to a client device for performance of the second media item in the second programming slot,
• wherein the second media selection rule is different than the first media selection rule, and wherein the second media selection rule selects the second media item from a different database of the similarity database and the online store database than dictated by the first media selection rule.