Patent ID: 7783774
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F,G10H,G11B,H04H,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A jukebox system for playing a musical piece, comprising: a central jukebox server including therein a master server and a mirror server, the central jukebox server including: a mass storage that stores a plurality of musical pieces, wherein the mass storage is shared by each of the master and mirror server; wherein said device network card of each jukebox device is declared to said device multitask operating system as a peripheral corresponding to a hard disk, said device multitask operating system having at least one hard disk access management task in which the order to play a musical piece resulting from a selection is processed as a hard disk sequential access task which makes the device network card send a request for said musical pieces, in the form of a hard disk sequential access request, to the server network card, such that each jukebox device does not include a storage medium for musical pieces, wherein the mirror server is configured to at least temporarily replace the master server associated therewith when problems with the master server are detected.