Patent ID: 11868396
Assignee: GRACENOTE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by one or more processors of a server device, cause the server device to perform operations comprising:
selecting an audio file containing music;
identifying a mood associated with the audio file containing the music, wherein the mood is based on a tempo of the music and a dynamic range of the music;
selecting an audio file containing a story that is also associated with the mood, wherein the mood of the story is based on (i) one or more keywords in the story and (ii) vocal characteristics of a speaker associated with the story;
generating a playlist for a client device, wherein the playlist includes (i) a reference to the audio file containing the music, and (ii) a reference to the audio file containing the story; and
transmitting the playlist to the client device, wherein reception of the playlist at the client device causes an audio player application executing on the client device to retrieve and
sequentially play out each of the audio file containing the music and the audio file containing the story.