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US 2006/0224260 A1Published application
Scan shuffle for building playlists
OwnerWendell Hicken, Marc Campbellinventors
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Abstract
A scan shuffle mechanism for building playlists. A user selects a scan shuffle button to cause the user's music collection to be sorted acoustically and scanned in the acoustically sorted order. Small segments of the sorted songs are played one by one until the user hears a desired song. The user selects the scan shuffle button again to set the currently played song as a seed song that generates a playlist of complementing songs.
Claims21
A method for building a playlist comprising:
- automatically scanning through a plurality of music pieces in a music collection and playing a sample of each scanned music piece;
- receiving a user input while the sample of the music piece is being played, the user input for indicating a selection of the music piece;
- responsive to the received user input, generating a playlist including other music pieces acoustically complementing the selected music piece;
- and
- outputting the playlist for the user.
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A music player comprising:
- a user input;
- an output;
- a processor coupled to the user input and output;
- and
- a memory operably coupled to the processor and storing program instructions therein, the processor being operable to execute the program instructions, the program instructions including:
- automatically scanning through a plurality of music pieces in a music collection and playing a sample of each scanned music piece;
- detecting actuation of the user input while the sample of the music piece is being played, the actuation for indicating a selection of the music piece;
- responsive to the actuation of the user input, generating a playlist including other music pieces acoustically complementing the selected music piece;
- and
- outputting the playlist via the output.
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A music player comprising:
- means for automatically scanning through a plurality of music pieces in a music collection and playing a sample of each scanned music piece;
- means for receiving a user input while the sample of the music piece is being played, the user input for indicating a selection of the music piece;
- means responsive to the received user input for generating a playlist including other music pieces acoustically complementing the selected music piece;
- and
- means for outputting the playlist for the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.