Shared metadata for media files
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsBrandon Bilinski, Clement D. Wright, Kathleen Hsiang Chen
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for organizing music tracks based on shared metadata. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of common music tracks associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the set of common music tracks includes at least one music track present in both a first set of music tracks associated with the first user and a second set of music tracks associated with the second user. Metadata associated with at least one music track in the set of common music tracks is retrieved, the metadata being specific to the second user. A set of user music tracks associated with the first user is organized based on the retrieved metadata.
Claims17
A method performed by at least one processing device, the method comprising:
- identifying a set of common multimedia files associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the set of common multimedia files includes at least one multimedia file present in both a first set of multimedia files associated with the first user and a second set of multimedia files associated with the second user, wherein the first user and the second user are different;
- receiving a request from the second user to hide metadata associated with a particular multimedia file;
- retrieving metadata associated with at least one multimedia file in the set of common multimedia files, wherein the retrieved metadata is specific to the second user;
- and
- organizing a set of user multimedia files associated with the first user based on the retrieved metadata,
- wherein organizing the set of user multimedia files includes displaying data to the first user based on retrieved metadata for each of the common multimedia files, and playing the multimedia files based on metadata associated with the particular multimedia file without displaying the metadata to the first user.
A system comprising:
- one or more processing devices;
- and
- one or more machine-readable media storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processing devices to perform functions comprising:
- identifying a set of common multimedia files associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the set of common multimedia files includes at least one multimedia file present in both a first set of multimedia files associated with the first user and a second set of multimedia files associated with the second user, wherein the first user and the second user are different;
- receiving a request from the second user to hide metadata associated with a particular multimedia file;
- retrieving metadata associated with at least one multimedia file in the set of common multimedia files, the retrieved metadata being specific to the second user;
- and
- organizing a set of user multimedia files associated with the first user based on the retrieved metadata,
- wherein organizing the set of user multimedia files includes displaying data to the first user based on retrieved metadata for each of the common multimedia files, and playing the multimedia files based on metadata associated with the particular multimedia file without displaying the metadata to the first user.
One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a set of common multimedia files associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the set of common multimedia files includes at least one multimedia file present in both a first set of multimedia files associated with the first user and a second set of multimedia files associated with the second user, wherein the first user and the second user are different;
- receiving a request from the second user to hide metadata associated with a particular multimedia file;
- retrieving metadata associated with at least one multimedia file in the set of common multimedia files, the retrieved metadata being specific to the second user;
- and
- organizing a set of user multimedia files associated with the first user based on the retrieved metadata,
- wherein organizing the set of user multimedia files includes displaying data to the first user based on retrieved metadata for each of the common multimedia files, and playing the multimedia files based on metadata associated with the particular multimedia file without displaying the metadata to the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.