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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2005
Miles Martin Elmers, Ii, Phoenix, AZ (US);
John Robert Berkheimer, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Miles Martin Elmers, II, Phoenix, AZ (US);
John Robert Berkheimer, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Tyrell Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a folder indexing method that defines a format for storage and playback of digital audio files to support a specialized song selection access method. Access codes used to select media files for playback of music in a digital audio player, such as a juke box, are entered using track selection keys bearing the characters associated with the various access codes. At the software level, the track selection keys are assigned index values. Index values are used to locate a selected individual folder, but each individual folder uniquely stores only one media file. Preferably, folder names are only used for the purpose of alpha sorting folders so that index values can be used to count to a selected folder rather than searching for a term in a folder name. Multiple folder levels can be located using this method, but only the last folder level contains media files.