Generating and distributing playlists with music and stories having related moods

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a processor of a server device, cause the server device to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining an audio file containing music, wherein a client device and the server device are in communication with one another by way of a wide-area network;
• determining a mood of the music from a plurality of moods;
• looking up the mood of the music in a table, wherein the table identifies, for the mood of the music, other moods from the plurality of moods including those that match the mood of the music, are opposed to the mood of the music, and are neutral with respect to the mood of the music;
• selecting an audio file containing a story, wherein the audio file containing the story is associated with a story attribute indicative of a second mood of the plurality of moods, wherein the second mood matches the mood of the music or is neutral with respect to the mood of the music;
• automatically generating a playlist for the client device, wherein the playlist sequentially includes (i) reference to the audio file containing the music, and (ii) a reference to the audio file containing the story;
• and
• transmitting, over the wide-area network, the playlist to the client device.

A server device comprising:

• a processor;
• memory;
• and
• program instructions, stored in the memory, that upon execution by the processor cause the server device to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining an audio file containing music, wherein a client device and the server device are in communication with one another by way of a wide-area network;
• determining a mood of the music from a plurality of moods;
• looking up the mood of the music in a table, wherein the table identifies, for the mood of the music, other moods from the plurality of moods including those that match the mood of the music, are opposed to the mood of the music, and are neutral with respect to the mood of the music;
• selecting an audio file containing a story, wherein the audio file containing the story is associated with a story attribute indicative of a second mood of the plurality of moods, wherein the second mood matches the mood of the music or is neutral with respect to the mood of the music;
• automatically generating a playlist for the client device, wherein the playlist sequentially includes (i) reference to the audio file containing the music, and (ii) a reference to the audio file containing the story;
• and
• transmitting, over the wide-area network, the playlist to the client device.