Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Gabriela Ahern

Toby Ray Latin-Stoermer

Brandon Scott Durham

Benjamin Lee Shepherd

Darren Levi Malek

Jason Christopher Hall

Jonathan Beech

Ralph Cameron Harvey

Andrew McGoogan

Robert Richard Morse

Hari Gangadharan

Kintan Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt

Christopher Woolf Phillips

Haowei Lu

Joshua Fredrick Lutes

Xinjie Di

Sarvesh Chandra Regmi

Vladimir Lazebny

William Jarred Leslie

A computing device can periodically acquire a current track time for a media content item being played. The device can periodically compare the current track time with a respective start time and a respective end time for each line (or segment) in a plurality of lines of text (or segments of text) associated with the media content item. If the device determines that the current track time is between start and end times for a given line of text, then the device can display the given line of text. A user of the device can scroll through the lines of text associated with the media content item. If the user selects a particular line of text, the device can identify a start time for the selected line of text. The device can then play the media content item at the identified start time of the selected line of text.

Navigating media playback using scrollable text

Techniques are described for automatically selecting musical content for playback based on an initial 'seed' of music selected by a user in a way that seamlessly extends the user's listening experience. The initially selected seed music might be, for example, an album or a playlist. Music that follows the seed music is algorithmically selected to match the music selected by the user.

Techniques for selecting musical content for playback

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Gabriela Ahern