System and method for providing a personalized media service

A system for providing a personalized media service comprising:

• a storage system operable to store (1) a plurality of works, (2) for each said stored work, meta information associated with the work, wherein the meta information includes information identifying the title of the work, information identifying the name of a product that includes the work, and/or art work associated with the work, and (3) a plurality of channel profiles;
• and
• a media server that is operable to transmit one or more works simultaneously and address, in the case of more than one work, each of the two or more works to different devices, wherein
• the media server is further operable to:
• receive from the user's device a first request that includes a user identifier and/or device identifier, wherein the user identifier and/or device identifier is associated with one or more personalized channels created by a user associated with the user identifier and/or a user of the device, wherein each of the personalized channels has a profile stored in the storage system that defines the profile of the personalized channel;
• after receiving the first request, use the user identifier and/or device identifier to determine the personalized channels associated with the user and/or device identifier, and, for each channel associated with the user and/or device identifier, transmit to the user's device a name associated with the channel, wherein the device is configured to display the channel names, enable the user to select one of the named channels and transmit, in response to the user selecting one of the named channels and to the media server, a second request that includes an identifier identifying the selected channel;
• receive from the user's device the second request;
• in response to receiving the second request, transmit to the user's device (1) a plurality of works, wherein the plurality of works substantially match the profile of the selected personalized channel, and (2) for each said transmitted work, at least some of the meta information associated with the work, and wherein
• the user's device is configured to (1) receive and play the transmitted works, and (2) for each work that is played, (a) display, while the work is being played, at least some of the received meta information associated with the work, and (b) enable the user of the device to indicate that the user likes said work while the work is being played,
• for each of said plurality of works transmitted to the device, the user's device does not provide the user with information about the artist(s) who created the work until (a) such time as the work is played by the device or (b) a point in time immediately prior to the playing of the work by the device, and
• the system is configured such that the user can not directly control which works are transmitted by the media server in response to the second request.