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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2019
Spotify Ab, Stockholm, SE;
Juan José Bosch Vicente, Paris, FR;
Youn Jin Kim, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Peter Milan Thomson Sobot, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Angus William Sackfield, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Spotify AB, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A system, method and computer product for combining audio tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the method comprises determining at least one music track that is musically compatible with a base music track, aligning those tracks in time, and combining the tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the tracks may be music tracks of different songs, the base music track can be an instrumental accompaniment track, and the at least one music track can be a vocal track. Also in one example embodiment herein, the determining is based on musical characteristics associated with at least one of the tracks, such as an acoustic feature vector distance between tracks, a likelihood of at least one track including a vocal component, a tempo, or musical key. Also, determining of musical compatibility can include determining at least one of a vertical musical compatibility or a horizontal musical compatibility among tracks.