Music track exploration and playlist creation

Abstract

The invention enables music tracks in a playlist to be explored using a unique music genogram data format. The invention further enables a user to map an emotional trajectory on the emotion wheel as a basis for the generation of the playlist with music tracks. The invention provides for a unique visualization of the playlist using the emotional wheel representation. A user will be given the option to specify an initial mood and a destination mood. The trajectory between the initial mood and the destination mood may be steered through the emotions falling in-between. The thus obtained mood trajectory is then populated by music tracks to form a playlist.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the exploration of music tracks in a playlist and the creation of playlists. More specifically, the invention relates to a computer-implemented method for the creation of a playlist, a music genogram data structure and a computer implemented method to explore music tracks using the music genogram data structure.BACKGROUND[0002]Driven by the rapid expansion of the Internet, media items, such as music, video and pictures, are becoming available in digital and exchangeable format more and more. It is to be expected that at some point in time substantially all music will be available online, e.g. through music portal websites. A music track is a single song or instrumental piece of music. With potentially billions of music tracks from new and existing artists being added to the worldwide online available music collection on a monthly time scale, it is becoming very difficult to find favorite music tracks or new music tracks to...

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Benefits of technology

[0020]The embodiment of claim 9 advantageously enables a user to increase the number of media items for a specific mood in the playlist.

[0021]The embodiment of claim 10 advantageously enables a user to see where in the mood trajectory a decrease or increase in the number of media items with specific media characteristics can be expected.

[0022]The embodiment of claim 11 advantageously enables future creation of a playlist to take into account past user actions related to a particular media item.

Problems solved by technology

With potentially billions of music tracks from new and existing artists being added to the worldwide online available music collection on a monthly time scale, it is becoming very difficult to find favorite music tracks or new music tracks to ones liking from the vast collection of music.

Known tools for finding media items and creating playlists do not take into account different tastes of individual users, which is further compounded by additional differences on their demographics.

Moreover, use of a camera to capture the current mood may result in a less or non-preferred playlist, as there can be a mismatch between the desire of the user to reach a certain mood and the mood reflected per his / her facial expressions.

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