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US 2006/0155400 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for skipping songs without delay
OwnerStephen Loomisinventor
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In an Internet based personalized radio, where a user has a pre-selected list of songs to be played in a particular order, the invention provides an apparatus and method allowing the user to skip one or more songs without having an unintended delay between skips. This is accomplished by pre-buffering the first ten seconds of each of the next several songs on the list so that, should the user choose to skip to any of the next several songs, the pre-buffered ten seconds of the target song is already available to be played. The apparatus starts to play the pre-buffered port of the target song and starts to download the rest of it at the same time. Because the initial buffering time for the rest of the target song is less than ten seconds, the target song is played smoothly.
An apparatus for smoothly playing a pre-determined sequence of songs transmitted from a server over the Internet, the apparatus comprising a processor, a first memory that stores at least one program used by said processor to control the playing of the sequence of songs, and a second memory which is available to said at least one program for operations,
A method for smoothly playing a pre-determined sequence of songs transmitted from a remote server to a local device over the Internet, comprising the steps of:
A program storage medium readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a method for smoothly playing a pre-determined sequence of songs transmitted from a remote server to a local device over the Internet, comprising the steps of:
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