Method and system for providing an audio element cache in a customized personal radio broadcast

A personal radio server system for providing a customized radio broadcast to one or more users, comprising:

• a) a file server for storing a plurality of audio elements;
• b) a database for storing a user profile for each of said one or more users, wherein said database further stores information associated with each of said plurality of audio elements;
• c) an audio element cache capable of caching a plurality of audio elements for each of said one or more users;
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• d) an audio element selector having one or more audio element selection functions, wherein each audio element selection function is operable to retrieve a plurality of audio elements from said file server based on a user's user profile and the information associated with each of said plurality of audio elements and to store the plurality of audio elements on the audio element cache.

A system for providing customized radio content to a plurality of remote listeners in a personal radio server system, comprising:

• a) means for storing a plurality of audio elements in a file server;
• b) means for retrieving a subset of the plurality of audio elements from the file server by predicting the content desired by a remote listener based on a user profile of the remote listener;
• c) means for storing the subset of the plurality of audio elements in an audio element cache;
• d) means for selecting audio elements to provide to a remote listener from the audio element cache;
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• e) means for transmitting the audio elements to the remote listener.