Patent ID: 8666950

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving user input rating samples of music, wherein the samples of music are representative of an intrinsic property that includes a particular tempo, a particular beat, a particular rhythm, a particular type of instrument, a particular duration, a particular artist, a particular title, a particular album, a particular release date, or any combination thereof; generating a media mix based on the user input, wherein the media mix indicates that, during playlist generation, a first percentage of media items of a playlist are to be selected from a particular storage location, a first remaining percentage of media content items of the playlist are to be selected from one or more other storage locations, a second percentage of media content items of the playlist are to correspond to the intrinsic property, and a second remaining percentage of media content items of the playlist are to correspond to one or more other intrinsic properties, and wherein the first percentage and the second percentage are independent of each other; selecting the media mix based on a location of a user for presentation by a media player; dynamically selecting a plurality of media content items for presentation by the media player based on the media mix; and generating an output including the plurality of media content items.