76 results about "Online music" patented technology

A computer implemented online music distribution system provides for the secure delivery of audio data and related media, including text and images, over a public communications network. The online music distribution system provides security through multiple layers of encryption, and the cryptographic binding of purchased audio data to each specific purchaser. The online music distribution system also provides for previewing of audio data prior to purchase. In one embodiment, the online music distribution system is a client-server system including a content manager, a delivery server, and an HTTP server, communicating with a client system including a Web browser and a media player. The content manager provides for management of media and audio content, and processing of purchase requests. The delivery server provides delivery of the purchased media data. The Web browser and HTTP server provide a communications interface over the public network between the content manager and media players. The media player provides for encryption of user personal information, and for decryption and playback of purchased media data. Security of purchased media data is enhanced in part by the use of a personal, digital passport in each media player. The digital passport contains identifying information that identifies the purchaser, along with confidential information, such as credit card number, and encryption data, such as the media player's public and private keys. The media player encryption data is used to encrypt purchased media data, which is decrypted in real time by the media player. The media player also displays confidential information, such as the purchaser's credit card number, during playback.

A secure music distribution system securely distributes digital products such as music, video, and / or computer software along with related media over a public telecommunications network, such as the Internet, employing a client-server architecture. The digital products are stored and controlled by a content manager computer system and are sold by separate merchant computer systems. The secure music distribution system includes a music distribution center which operates with any number of client systems and with any number of merchant systems. The music distribution center includes a content manager and at least one delivery server. The content manager maintains a media information database, a master media file system, and a transaction database. In addition, the music distribution center interfaces with a media licensing center, which in turn communicates with one or more distributed rights agent servers and the merchant servers. The merchant server executes in a merchant computer system, which also includes an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) server. The merchant servers interface with various payment processing systems. The client systems include a media player and a Web browser. Additional delivery servers and media licensing centers operate independently and externally to the music distribution center and interface with the music distribution center.

A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM / FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. The user accesses a server site via a PC and the Internet. From the server site, the user obtains a list of the devices in his or her Internet Personal Audio Network (IPAN) and what songs are on those devices. The IPAN includes an IPAN server, an IPAN client, and IPAN software stored on the network-enabled audio device. Thus, the network-enabled audio device provides people who are or are not comfortable with computers a way of taking music from various sources and putting it into one place for listening pleasure. In one embodiment, the Personal Computer (PC) is used to compose the playlists, but the user is able to listen to playlists and other audio sources without using the PC.

A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM / FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. The user accesses a server site via a PC and the Internet. From the server site, the user obtains a list of the devices in his or her Internet Personal Audio Network (IPAN) and what songs are on those devices. The IPAN includes an IPAN server, an IPAN client, and IPAN software stored on the network-enabled audio device. Thus, the network-enabled audio device provides people who are or are not comfortable with computers a way of taking music from various sources and putting it into one place for listening pleasure. In one embodiment, the Personal Computer (PC) is used to compose the playlists, but the user is able to listen to playlists and other audio sources without using the PC.

The present invention relates to an automated system and algorithm that aids in the automatic discovery and presentation of media content, in particular, music content, that is available across multiple online music services. More specifically, the disclosed embodiments utilize the meta-data associated with a given media content item (seed content) being accessed to find related or similar content, radio stations, or music streams and the like from across multiple online music services (such as iTunes, Rhapsody, Spotify, Pandora, etc.). The system then selects, arranges and presents those actions and / or media content items to a user in a blended list of actionable links. Selection can include comparing and ranking of available media content items or sources according to one or more selection criteria concerning one or more of the following attributes: cost, quality, availability and speed of access of the particular media content.

A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM / FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. The user accesses a server site via a PC and the Internet. From the server site, the user obtains a list of the devices in his or her Internet Personal Audio Network (IPAN) and what songs are on those devices. The IPAN includes an IPAN server, an IPAN client, and IPAN software stored on the network-enabled audio device. Thus, the network-enabled audio device provides people who are or are not comfortable with computers a way of taking music from various sources and putting it into one place for listening pleasure. In one embodiment, the Personal Computer (PC) is used to compose the playlists, but the user is able to listen to playlists and other audio sources without using the PC.

A system for accessing development components, including an online video clip library of templates and an online music clip library, and enabling online production of user-friendly, custom-integrated media products. The system includes a Web application on a Website for hosting services for producers / advertisers / users. The system also includes a search engine that indexes the video, interactive Web formatting screens for selecting development components and producing the Web products in said Web application, an online MIXER module for editing and playing said selected video, an online editing program, which allows the advertiser / user to edit his advertisement himself, outside WebServices accessible by said advertisers of said Web application via the internet for custom-integrating, encoding and formatting the video clips and a parallel platform in which content producer / users and commercial libraries could upload their raw material and set their price.

The present invention represents accomplishes the basic idea of providing a marketplace platform through which music and consumer purchasing power can be directly exchanged. It is a downloadable application wherein music files are stored on a central system, not a P2P network of linked computers. The present invention merges a basic platform structure with an Internet retail website. A new and used listing function that allows independent and non-major label represented artists to upload and list their music on the service for any price that the musician / artist desires. Users can then search for and purchase this music with a small fee going to the provider and the balance to the independent musician / artist. Independent artists may also choose to promote their music in addition to a standard listing by selecting any number of listing enhancements including but not exclusive to featured spaces on the application front page, first priority in the user search. The independent music list / buy / sell system is accompanied by an online music store system for major label represented artist, as well, but which functions under a different sales / revenue principle. Here a user can search for and download music files from these major music label represented artists at a price that is a function of the content agreement signed with the major record label.

A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM / FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. The user accesses a server site via a PC and the Internet. From the server site, the user obtains a list of the devices in his or her Internet Personal Audio Network (IPAN) and what songs are on those devices. The IPAN includes an IPAN server, an IPAN client, and IPAN software stored on the network-enabled audio device. Thus, the network-enabled audio device provides people who are or are not comfortable with computers a way of taking music from various sources and putting it into one place for listening pleasure. In one embodiment, the Personal Computer (PC) is used to compose the playlists, but the user is able to listen to playlists and other audio sources without using the PC.

A collaborative music network for collaboratively linking members with each other has a central control center which is adapted for a plurality of members accessing thereto through internet, and a communication center linked to the central control center for interactively networking the members with each other. The music network includes a session for the session-members to edit, mix and record the audio files in the session and save them in the session and the user's own hard drive. The session also provides a live platform for session-members to interact and perform music. Non-session members are able to work on the audio files in the session. The completed music works are played through the network music player and purchased through online music store. The music network also contains an Internet radio to broadcast the audio files selected from member profiles.

A multi-node media content distribution system is incorporated in portable slave node media content reproduction devices for sharing video, music, photo or any other media content files with other portable slave node media content reproduction devices wirelessly. The multi-node media content distribution system includes media content reproduction devices wirelessly configured as a network. One of the media content reproduction devices is designated as a master controller node media content reproduction device and provides the media content files to the network as a server. All remaining media content reproduction devices are slave nodes to the master controller node media content reproduction device to receive the media content files. The master controller node media content reproduction device encrypts the media content files with a unique encryption key that is known only to the member slave. Each of the media content reproduction devices of the network may be in communication with an online music store for purchase of a media content file based on its associated media content information file.

Systems and methods for accessing online content during online gaming are disclosed. In one embodiment, online gamers are able to access available online music content while in-game. Player-selected music content may be played and incorporated directly into the online RPG / MMORPG gaming experience. Players desiring to access additional music content to be played while in-game may be directed to a third-party server, from which the desired music content may be selected and / or downloaded. The selected music content may then replace the generic background music to which all other players are limited.

The invention discloses a method of recommending online music based on playing records of a mobile terminal. The method of recommending the online music based on the playing records of the mobile terminal comprises the following steps: recording playing times, a singer, and a music style of each song, periods when the song is played every time and geographic positions and moving states of the mobile terminal when the song is played every time to generate a plurality of playing records; extracting the plurality of playing records to form a first set, wherein the number of the playing times of the playing records are larger than a first preset value; extracting a plurality of playing records corresponding to singers or music styles to form a second set, wherein playing times of the songs of the singers or the music styles are maximum; serving the singers or the music styles contained by the playing records in the second set as a personalized label; and recommending the online music according to the personalized label. Compared with the prior art, the method of recommending the online music based on the playing record of the mobile terminal achieves the facts that the online music which is high in matched-degree of a user preference is recommended to the user, the fact that the user carries out cockamamie web search is avoided, time is saved, and user experience is improved. The invention further discloses the mobile terminal of recommending the online music based on playing records.

The invention relates to a method and a system for monitoring the piracy of online music. The method and the system comprise the following steps in sequence: an audio fingerprint extraction module obtains an audio download address from the Internet; the audio fingerprint extraction module reads audio documents from the audio download address and obtains an audio fingerprints after processing of the audio document; a monitor and analysis module compares the audio fingerprints with that of genuine audio documents; and if the result of the comparison is higher than a set threshold value, an infringement positioning module further obtains the information of the infringement and sends warning to infringers. Compared with the prior art, the method and the system have the technical effects: the network digital music resource can be effectively monitored via technological means of web spiders, audio fingerprint extraction and characteristics code extractions and the like; the obtaining of evidence of the infringement and the warning can be carried out; and the whole process is automatically finished, thus significantly reducing cost, saving time and ensuring the timeliness of the right protection.

A system for accessing development components, including an online video clip library of templates and an online music clip library, and enabling online production of user-friendly, custom-integrated media products. The system includes a Web application on a Website for hosting services for producers / advertisers / users. The system also includes a search engine that indexes the video, interactive Web formatting screens for selecting development components and producing the Web products in said Web application, an online MIXER module for editing and playing said selected video, an online editing program, which allows the advertiser / user to edit his advertisement himself, outside WebServices accessible by said advertisers of said Web application via the internet for custom-integrating, encoding and formatting the video clips and a parallel platform in which content producer / users and commercial libraries could upload their raw material and set their price.

The invention provides an online music recommending and sending method and system. The online music recommending and sending method comprises the following steps that a mobile terminal collects and sends information of the current state of a user; a server analyzes the user status information sent by the mobile terminal and generates a user status label; the server conducts matching on the user status labels and a song label database and recommends and sends songs which are best matched with the label to the mobile terminal from the song database.

Provided are a game service method, where UCC can be used in an online music game that uses music as an element, and a game server therefor. The game service method includes receiving user created contents (UCC) data in which accompaniment music data and a song sung by a music user are combined, generating note background music (BGM) data in which action note data corresponding to the accompaniment music data and the UCC data are combined, and providing an online music game using the generated note BGM data to a game user.

Methods and systems for recording music online using music recording software executable in a Web browser and for submitting the recording to a music competition conducted over the Internet are described. A user downloads pre-recorded musical beat tracks and music recording software. The software allows the user to record (with the use of a microphone) a vocal track which is an original lyrical track by the user and which is then mixed with the pre-recorded musical beat track, to form a final complete track. The final track is uploaded to a Web site, from which the musical beat tracks and the software were downloaded, and saved with the user profile. It is available for others to listen to and may be submitted by the user to a music track competition. When on the user computer, the user is able to record a genuine multi-track final recording in which the pre-recorded beat track is a separate track from the vocal track created solely by the user using the recording software downloaded from the Web site, operated by a music recording and competition service provider (“service provider”).

To purchase music online, a user becomes a member to a site which fulfils orders. An announcement is posted to members of a future release of a first song as performed by a first recording artist. Preorders are accepted from members indicating an intent to download the first song upon release for a fee. Verification is performed to determine that the member is eligible to submit the preorder. The preorders are tallied. A minimum volume of preorders is set. After the minimum volume is met, the first song is released. Members' accounts are charged the fee to access the song. By setting the minimum volume, a threshold revenue level is achieved for release of the first song assuring an established artist a minimum revenue regardless of any pirating that might occur after the release.

The invention provides a method enabling multiple uses to sing the same song simultaneously online. The method comprises that S1) an independent music space which includes multiple songs is created, and each song includes different online music boxes; S2) a user interaction zone is established in the music space, user registration is provided, and registration requests are processed; S3) a command of any song selected by the registered user is obtained, and all online music boxes of the selected song are obtained so that the registered user can make a choice; and S4) a command to start singing simultaneously is obtained, and sounds of the users who sing the same song simultaneously are synchronized online. The invention also discloses a device and system enabling multiple uses to sing the same song simultaneously online. Thus, the users of different areas can singe the same song simultaneously online via the Internet and entertain themselves together, the limitations of time, space and special equipment are broken through, the users can make friends by singing, the interest of music is improved via the sounds in the virtual network world, and cultural prosperity is realized.

The invention discloses a teaching method for mobile and online music. The teaching method comprises the following steps: randomly providing a single tone or a multitone from a pre-stored intonation exercise database of a server end; phonating the same tone by a testee according to the heard single tone or multitone; collecting an audio signal of a user tone from a user end according to a preset sampling rate; converting the audio signal into a digital signal; converting the digital signal into a sound file waveform graph in the server end; acquiring a standard frequency waveform graph corresponding to the sound file waveform graph; superposing the sound file waveform graph and the standard frequency waveform graph, carrying out error tolerance data optimization and comparison processing on a superposed graph, and sending the superposed graph to the user end for displaying. According to the teaching method, the music is shown to a learner by an intuitive vision effect, so that the learner can find out every difference in a music recording process in the form of an atlas and is promoted to make an improvement, and the aim of music teaching is fulfilled. The method is simple and more suitable for application of popularization.

The present invention discloses a Bluetooth-based music licensed playing system and method. The system comprises: an online data center, used for providing music resources and a playing authorization service; an intelligent device, used for accessing the online data center via a network; and a Bluetooth playing device,. wherein a transmission channel between the Bluetooth playing device and the Intelligent device comprises an audio data transmission channel and a music authorization control Bluetooth channel. The method comprises a step that the intelligent device acquires a playing authorization identifier by means of the Bluetooth channel, a step of requesting a playing list, a step of sending an authorization instruction and the playing list, and a step of transmitting audio data and playing. According to the system and method disclosed by the present invention, flexible and reliable authorized playing of music is achieved, and not only online music playing authorization management is enhanced, but also high-quality and loseless online / offline music playing can be supported.

A method for surfacing auto-generated facts about a music library is provided. The method initiates with receiving from a client device a request to access an online music library associated with a user, the music library including a plurality of audio files, each of the audio files including audio data and metadata associated with the audio data. The metadata of the audio files in the music library are transmitted to the client device. A music application code is transmitted to the client device, the music application code configured to be executed by a browser application on the client device, the music application code including a fact template defining an analysis to be performed on the transmitted metadata and posting logic configured to display a result of the analysis performed according to the fact template in said browser application on the client device.

Methods and systems of providing media to a media consumer are disclosed herein. A media rating for at least one media item can be received from a consumer and stored on a consumer profile. Using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to import all available media having a consumer rating higher than a predetermined threshold to an online media library of the consumer. In another embodiment, using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to add to an online music library all media items associated with an artist, a genre, or other media item attribute.

The invention discloses a method, server and system for realizing online music subsection downloading. The method comprises the following steps: when receiving a listening try request sent from a user terminal, extracting music identification from the listening try request; determining musical category of the music according to the music identification; searching historical listening try duration data associated with the user terminal and the musical category; carrying out clustering processing on the historical listening try duration data to obtain clustering collection associated with the listening try request; ranking listening try duration clusters included in the clustering collection according to the sequence from small to large to form music subsection playing rules according to average time duration of each listening try duration cluster; and converting the average time duration of each duration cluster into corresponding subsection playing information, and sending the subsection playing information to the user terminal. According to the method, server and system for realizing online music subsection downloading, under the premise of guaranteeing online listening try quality, bandwidth resources of a server are reasonably distributed and controlled, and downloading flow of a client is effectively controlled.

The invention discloses a media data acquisition method, a media terminal and an online music teaching system, wherein the media terminal comprises a video acquisition unit, a transmission unit and a control unit; the video acquisition unit is suitable for acquiring an image and generating a video frame; the transmission unit is suitable for transmitting the video frame to a media server; and the control unit is suitable for judging whether the transmission unit is jammed or not and generating a first acquisition adjustment parameter according to the code rate of the video frame transmitted by the transmission unit when the transmission unit is jammed.

The method of distributing music online provides for the online sale of music and audio files, which are uploaded to an online music store directly by the artist rather than being provided by a record company. The online music store is established in a form accessible to potential purchasers via a computer network. Purchasers and the artists establish accounts on the music store website. An artist uploads at least one digital audio file to the online music store. The at least one digital audio file is stored on a server accessible by or through the online store. The artist pays an artist fee to the online music store for offering the at least one digital audio file for sale on the website. An established portion of the artist fee to be contributed to a selected charity is calculated, and this portion of the artist fee is distributed to the charity.

The embodiment of the invention discloses methods and devices for providing and obtaining vehicular music and a vehicular music transfer system. The method for providing the vehicular music comprises the following steps: receiving a music resource obtaining request carrying the user information of vehicular equipment, wherein the request also carries online music resource interface identifications; verifying whether the user information has the permission of obtaining the online music resources corresponding to the online music resource interface identifications; establishing the correspondence between the user information and online music resource identifications when the verification is successful, wherein the online music resource identifications correspond to the online music resource interface identifications; sending the online music resource identifications to the vehicular equipment; and obtaining the online music resource contents corresponding to the online music resource identifications by the vehicular equipment. The methods have the following beneficial effect: the rich online music is introduced to the vehicular equipment, thus ensuring the vehicular equipment users to obtain music via the vehicular equipment and obtain the most timely and richest music experience.