Patent ID: 7949649

Claim:
A method for building a music metadata library, comprising: automatically acquiring acoustic metadata and explicit metadata for one or more music tracks from a plurality of client computing devices automatically acquiring cultural metadata for the one or more music tracks by searching Internet-accessible content, automatically acquiring cultural metadata comprising: maintaining a search queue including a plurality of search terms and a search repetition interval associated with each search term searching for Internet-accessible content containing each of the plurality of search terms to acquire the cultural metadata repeating the searching and the storing for each of the plurality of search terms after the associated search repetition interval comparing the cultural metadata acquired by successive searches for each of the plurality of search terms to determine a rate of change of the cultural metadata for each search term determining the search repetition interval for each of the plurality of search terms based on, at least in part, the respective rate of change of the cultural metadata storing the acquired acoustic, explicit, and cultural metadata in the music metadata library.