Universal RTP Database for Personalized Music Streaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Music streaming services typically operate under a traditional broadcasting model, limiting music publishers' ability to provide non-programmatic streamed music and create personalized playlists based on computer-derived rhythm, texture, and pitch scores, which are not efficiently integrated into existing platforms.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables music publishers to categorize music using RTP scores, store them in a universal database, and allow end users to create personalized playlists through a browser-based application, with the application sponsored by a single music publisher, enabling customized streaming and revenue generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional broadcasting model is used for music streaming, then revenue generation through advertising or subscription is achieved, but music publishers cannot provide non-programmatic streamed music and create personalized playlists based on computer-derived RTP scores
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the music streaming functionality by separating the traditional broadcasting model from the new personalized playlist creation. The RTP scoring system analyzes audio tracks and assigns scores based on rhythm, texture, and pitch characteristics, enabling independent categorization and selection of music tracks for personalized playlists without relying on traditional advertising or subscription models.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that connects music publishers with end users through a universal database and API server. This intermediary infrastructure enables music publishers to provide non-programmatic streamed music while maintaining control over their content, and allows users to create personalized playlists without direct integration complexity between all system components.
2Productivity
If a universal database common to all music publishers is used, then efficient playlist creation and access is achieved, but control over licensed content and revenue generation for individual publishers is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The universal database serves multiple music publishers and users simultaneously, enabling efficient playlist creation and track access across the entire system. The database stores RTP scores, categories, and metadata from multiple publishers, allowing users to create playlists that combine tracks from different sources while maintaining a single unified interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The API server acts as an intermediary between the universal database and individual music publishers, enabling publishers to contribute collections and customize applications without direct access to the universal database. This maintains publisher control over licensed content and revenue generation while allowing efficient access through the shared database infrastructure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If browser-based third party applications are used for music streaming, then cross-device compatibility is achieved, but the ability to create personalized playlists based on RTP scores and maintain publisher control is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The universal end user application can be accessed through web browsers on multiple devices including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. The application provides unified functionality for creating personalized playlists, accessing RTP scores, and interacting with music publishers across all devices, eliminating the need for separate applications for each platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The API server serves as an intermediary that provides standardized interfaces for both the universal end user application and individual music publisher applications. This intermediary layer simplifies operations by providing consistent access methods across devices while maintaining publisher control through customized application interfaces that can be sponsored by individual publishers.
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AI summary
A system and method for making categorized music tracks available to end user applications. The tracks may be categorized based on computer-derived rhythm, texture and pitch (RTP) scores for tracks derived from high-level acoustic attributes, which is based on low level data extracted from the tracks. RTP scores are stored in a universal database common to all of the music publishers so that the same track, once RTP scored, does not need to be re-RTP scored by other music publishers. End user applications access an API server to import collections of tracks published by publishers, to create playlists and initiate music streaming. Each end user application is sponsored by a single music publisher so that only tracks capable of being streamed by the music publisher are available to the sponsored end user application.