Patent ID: 8473479

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon computer-readable instructions for providing digital media content to a media content distribution system, comprising: computer-readable instructions for generating a package including: one or more metadata files including metadata content, the metadata content including a plurality of attributes; and information identifying a plurality of data files, each of the plurality of data files including media content, wherein at least one or more of the plurality of attributes includes a pre-order sale start date indicating a date on which a pre-order for the media content is permitted to be submitted to the media content distribution system, and wherein at least one or more of the plurality of attributes for the metadata content includes information influencing how the media content in the plurality of data files can be processed to provide digital media content; and computer-readable instructions for submitting the package to the media content distribution system, thereby enabling a digital media file to be encoded using at least a portion of the media content in the plurality of data files according to at least a portion of the metadata content.