Patent ID: 8060227

Claim:
A portable digital media player for providing convenient music logging, comprising: a sensor to sense physical motion responsive to a range of physical gestures made by a user of the digital media player to signify selection of a sample of music playing in an ambient environment; a microphone to record the music sample with the digital media player; a digitizer to digitally encode the music sample in digital media form; an identification module identifying a music selection corresponding to the encoded music sample; a storage comprising a collection of music and a sampling event comprising the music selection and information about the music selection comprising a recommender of the music selection, a context of the music selection comprising time, place, and circumstance of the recording of the music sample, and a rating for the music selection; an integration module to integrate the information from the sampling event into a display of the music collection on the digital media player; an output module to display the information to the digital media player user logically integrated into the music collection; and an input control to facilitate action upon the music selection through one or more of playback of the music selection on the digital media player and addition of the music selection to the music collection through retrieval from an external source.