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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
John Bregar, Seattle, WA (US);
Andy Precious, Duvall, WA (US);
Sanjeev Mehrotra, Kirkland, WA (US);
Serge Smirnov, Redmond, WA (US);
John Bregar, Seattle, WA (US);
Andy Precious, Duvall, WA (US);
Sanjeev Mehrotra, Kirkland, WA (US);
Serge Smirnov, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A low computational power digital audio player achieves beat continuous transitioning between digital audio pieces based on beat metadata, which can be generated via offline processing on a higher computational power computer or via background or idle processing on the digital audio player. The digital audio player produces playlists of beat matching compatible songs based on the metadata, or pick lists of songs that are beat matching compatible with a currently playing song. By facilitating selection of songs with beat matching compatible tempos based on metadata, the beat continuous transitions can be achieved without altering the beat tempo of digital audio pieces, or with simple resampling.