Method and process for Favouriting a sample from a track (18-Dec-2009)

Method and process for Favouriting a sample from a track

When a user listens to a long piece of music they often skip to a certain section of the music file so they can just listen to their favourite section. This can be quite annoying if they have a large collection of music that they always skip to listen to certain sections.

    The current solution is for the user to manually go through all of his digital music collection and trim the music files so that it only consist of the sample they prefer. However this is leads to duplicate data on the users hard disk as the original music file is stored with the new sample or the original music file is deleted and so in the future if the user wants to listen to the entire file he is unable to..

    The present disclosure puts forward the idea of adding metadata to a music file that contains the sample start and end times. This metadata would be generated automatically by determining when a regularly user skips to a certain part of a track and when he skips again afterwards.

    The music player would have an option allowing the user to specify if they wish samples to be played with or instead of the original music. The user would also get this option when generating custom play lists
E.g MetaData example

0:40:02

2:50:02

5:40:02

12:40:02

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