Patent ID: 7613736
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G06F,G11B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for sharing playlists comprising: selecting one or more songs from a first data store; generating a playlist based on the selected songs; retrieving acoustic analysis data of one or more songs in the playlist; generating a playlist characterization based on the acoustic analysis data; transmitting the playlist and the playlist characterization to a remote end device coupled to a second data store, wherein at least one of the songs in the playlist is unavailable in the second data store; generating by the remote end device a modified playlist based on the received playlist characterization, wherein the generating includes automatically replacing the unavailable song in the playlist with a replacement song available in the second data store, the replacement song being automatically selected by the remote end device based on the playlist characterization; and playing the modified playlist via the remote end device.